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FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2014 file photo the Russian national flag, right, flies after it is hoisted next to the Olympic flag during the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The ruling on whether Russia can keep its name and flag for the Olympics will be announced on Thursday Dec. 17, 2020. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Wednesday that three of its arbitrators held a four-day hearing last month in the dispute between the World Anti-Doping Agency and its Russian affiliate, known as RUSADA. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, file)

Russia can’t use its name and flag at the next 2 Olympics

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

In this photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, speaks to Croatia's Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic Radman, during their joint news conference following the talks in Zagreb, Croatia, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russian FM dismisses media reports about Navalny poisoning

By DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press

In this photo taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, Intercontinental ballistic missiles are launched by the Vladimir Monomakh nuclear submarine of the Russian navy from the Sera of Okhotsk, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. The submarine successfully test-fired four intercontinental ballistic missiles in a show of readiness of the nation's nuclear deterrent. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP) ** FILE **

Russian nuclear submarine test-fires 4 missiles

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends meeting with medical staff as he visits a hospital which provides medical care to patients with COVID-19, in the town of Stolbtsy, 75 kilometers (46 miles) south-west of Minsk, Belarus, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)

Alexander Lukashenko clings to power in Belarus

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Medical workers wearing protective gear transport a patient suspected of having coronavirus in a wheelchair at a hospital in Kommunarka, outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. The country has been swept by a rapid resurgence of the outbreak this fall, with numbers of confirmed COVID-19 infections and deaths regularly hitting new highs and significantly exceeding those reported in the spring. The country's authorities have resisted imposing a second nationwide lockdown or a widespread closure of businesses. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr)

Moscow opens dozens of coronavirus vaccination centers

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

FILE- In this March 31, 2020 file photo, members of the Connecticut Air and Army National Guard unload hospital supplies referred to as &quot;hospitals in a box&quot; at Southern Connecticut State University's Moore Field House in New Haven, Conn. Connecticut has received approval to continue using the National Guard to support COVID-19 mitigation efforts through March, 2021. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

The Latest: Oregon doc’s anti-mask comment draws suspension

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Russia waits — warily — for Joe Biden to chart course on relations

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Friday, April 27, 2012 file photo, Irina Antonova, Director of the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, speaks in front of a masterpiece by Vittore Carpaccio at a news conference on celebrations marking the museum's 100th anniversary in Moscow, Russia. Antonova, a charismatic art historian who presided over one of Russia's top art museums for more than half-a-century, has died in Moscow on Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. She was 98. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts said that Antonova last week tested positive for the coronavirus, which exacerbated her longtime chronic heart ailments.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Irina Antonova, head of top Moscow art museum, dies at 98

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FILE - In this file photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Armenia's Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan attends a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia. Armenia's foreign minister resigned on Monday, Nov. 16, 2020 amid political turmoil that has engulfed the country following a cease-fire deal over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh that called for territorial concessions. The resignation of Zohrab Mnatsakanyan may indicate that the political crisis in Armenia is deepening. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Armenian FM resigns amid turmoil over Nagorno-Karabakh truce

By AVET DEMOURIAN - Associated Press

FILE- In this file photo taken on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaks to the media prior to a court session in Moscow, Russia. The German government on Friday criticized an announcement by Russia's foreign minister that Moscow has imposed sanctions against German and French officials in response to EU measures taken over the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Germany criticizes new Russian sanctions over Navalny case

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Russia imposes sanctions on European officials over Navalny

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Protesters with Armenian flags walk along a street during a protest against an agreement to halt fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, in Yerevan, Armenia, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. Thousands of people flooded the streets of Yerevan once again on Wednesday, protesting an agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan to halt the fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, which calls for deployment of nearly 2,000 Russian peacekeepers and territorial concessions. Protesters clashed with police, and scores have been detained. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Armenians protest Nagorno-Karabakh truce terms for a 3rd day

By AVET DEMOURIAN - Associated Press

People argue with police during a protest against an agreement to halt fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, in Freedom Square in Yerevan, Armenia, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020. Thousands of people flooded the streets of Yerevan once again on Wednesday, protesting an agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan to halt the fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, which calls for deployment of nearly 2,000 Russian peacekeepers and territorial concessions. Protesters clashed with police, and scores have been detained. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Thousands call for Armenia PM to resign over truce agreement

By AVET DEMOURIAN - Associated Press

List 2/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

List 4/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Shop owners fix a door in their shop damaged by shelling by Azerbaijan's artillery at a market in Stepanakert, the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. Nagorno-Karabakh authorities said Azerbaijani military targeted a street market in Stepanakert and residential areas of Shushi on Saturday in violation of a mutual pledge not to target residential areas made after talks in Geneva. (AP Photo)

Armenia asks Moscow for help amid Nagorno-Karabakh fighting

By AVET DEMOURIAN - Associated Press

Hillary Rodham Clinton (right) shares a word with Huma Abedin, her personal assistant and trusted confidant. **FILE**

Sore losers: Hillary Clinton operatives tried to take down Trump after he won the 2016 election

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton checks her phone after attending a U.S.-Russia meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam on July 23, 2010. The revelation that Mrs. Clinton used an off-the-books email account during her time as secretary of state has raised fresh questions about her credibility heading into 2016. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton operatives worked to take down Trump even after election: Declassified FBI documents

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Sea ice breaks apart as the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica traverses the Northwest Passage through the Victoria Strait in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in a Friday, July 21, 2017, file photo. The National Snow and Ice Data Center's figures Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, show that sea ice last week was only 1.4 million square miles when it reached its annual low mark for the summer. In the 1980s it was always at least 1 million square miles more. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Russia to use Arctic Council chairman role to push back on U.S. interests

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Halting the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan illustration by The Washington Times

Halting the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan

By Svante E. Cornell