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In this Thursday, March 4, 2021, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting with participants of the We Are Together nationwide volunteer campaign in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Russia responds to latest sanctions by kicking out 10 U.S. diplomats

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Coordination Center of the Russian Government in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. The centre was set up as a line of communication with the whole of Russia for analysing and collecting information, promptly using big data and solving arising problems. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

US expels Russian diplomats, imposes sanctions for hacking

By ERIC TUCKER and AAMER MADHANI - Associated Press

Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, center, arrives with other members of the Taliban delegation for an international peace conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 18, 2021. Russia is hosting a peace conference for Afghanistan, bringing together government representatives and their Taliban adversaries along with regional observers in a bid to help jump-start the country's stalled peace process. The one-day gathering Thursday is the first of three planned international conferences ahead of a May 1 deadline for the final withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from the country, a date fixed under a year-old agreement between the Trump administration and the Taliban. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool) **FILE**

Biden administration backs away from report of Russian bounties to kill U.S. soldiers

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a session of the Russian Geographical Society via video link in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Joe Biden expels diplomats, hits Russia with sanctions over cyberattacks, election interference

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

DOXA magazine editors from left, Armen Aramyan, Natalya Tyshkevich and Alla Gutnikova wait for a court session as a police officer, left, stands next in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Russian authorities levied criminal charges Wednesday against four young editors of an online student magazine that had coverage about the nationwide protests supporting jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny earlier this year. (AP Photo/Denis Kaminev)

Russia targets student magazine with raids, criminal charges

By DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, right, speaks with Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba prior to a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool)

NATO vows to support Ukraine, warns Russia on troop buildup

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019 file photo, the sun sets over a statue of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From a giant statue towering over Moscow to a more modest monument on the Sakhalin Island in the Pacific Ocean, dozens of memorials across Russia commemorate Yuri Gagarin, the cosmonaut who became the first person in space on April 12, 1961, 60 years ago. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

AP PHOTOS: From Moscow to Pacific, Russia glorifies Gagarin

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy looks on as he visits the war-hit Donbas region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, April 8, 2021. Ukraine's president is visiting the area of conflict in his country's east amid an escalation of tensions that has raised fears of a resumption of large-scale hostilities. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Kremlin says it fears full-scale fighting in Ukraine’s east

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy shakes hands a soldier as he visits the war-hit Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, April 8, 2021. Ukraine is at the center of a major geopolitical battle in the eastern part of the country with Moscow backed separatists. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Ukraine’s president visits conflict area as tensions rise

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Ukrainian servicemen walk along a snow covered trench guarding their position at the frontline near Vodiane, about 750 kilometers (468 miles) south-east of Kyiv, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) **FILE**

U.S. rushes to reassure Kyiv as tensions with Russia mount

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny looks at photographers standing behind a glass of the cage in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) ** FILE **

Russia: Navalny on hunger strike to protest prison treatment

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

In this photo released by Suez Canal Authority, the Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship, is pulled by one of the Suez Canal tugboats, in the Suez Canal, Egypt, Monday, March 29, 2021. Engineers on Monday "partially refloated " the colossal container ship that continues to block traffic through the Suez Canal, authorities said, without providing further details about when the vessel would be set free. (Suez Canal Authority via AP)

Suez Canal blockage allows China, Russia push for shipping business

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Idaho city sued over arrests at church singing event

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Anatoly Antonov, Russian ambassador to the U.S. speaks during a round-table discussion on the Trump-Putin summit held in Helsinki, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, July 20, 2018. Russia's ambassador to the U.S. says Moscow is ready to discuss a possible visit by President Vladimir Putin to Washington after an invitation from U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Recalled Russian envoy arrives in Moscow for consultations

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Members of the Taliban delegation from the left: Khairullah Khairkhwa, former western Herat Governor and one of five Taliban released from the U.S. prison on Guantanamo Bay in exchange for U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl, Suhail Shaheen, member of negotiation team, Mohammad Naeem, spokesman for the Taliban's political office attend their joint news conference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 19, 2021. The Taliban warned Washington against defying a May 1 deadline for the withdrawal of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan promising a &quot;reaction&quot;. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Taliban expect U.S. withdrawal, vow to restore Islamic rule

By Vladimir Isachenkov and Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting on social and economic development of Crimea and Sevastopol, via video conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 18, 2021. (Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Kremlin: Putin’s offer of a call with Biden was to save ties

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 28, 2014 file photo, a Russian national flag flies on a hilltop near the city of Bakhchysarai, Crimea. The Group of Seven major industrialized countries on Thursday March 18, 2021, issued a strong condemnation of what it called Russia's ongoing “occupation” of the Crimean Peninsula, seven years after Moscow annexed it from Ukraine. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Group of Seven slams Russia annexation of Crimea, 7 years on

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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 12, 2021. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

US-Russia ties nosedive after Biden-Putin tit-for-tat

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

U.S. and Chinese national flags are hung outside a hotel during the U.S. presidential election event, organized by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) **FILE**

U.S. pummeled by covert disinformation war waged by China, Russia

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

This March 20, 2018, file photo shows the YouTube app on an iPad in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

YouTube questioned by Russian regulators about restricted Crimea movie

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times