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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

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

Soldiers and firefighters search for survivors in a residential area that was hit by rocket fire overnight by Armenian forces, early Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, in Gyanga, Azerbaijan's second largest city, near the border with Armenia. (AP Photo/Aziz Karimov)

Armenia, Azerbaijan announce new attempt at cease-fire

By AIDA SULTANOVA - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via video conference in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin proposes yearlong extension of nuclear pact with US

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

In this Oct. 11, 2020, file photo, Azerbaijani soldiers and firefighters search for survivors after rocket fire overnight by Armenian forces in a residential area in Ganja, Azerbaijan's second-largest city, near the border with Armenia. A Russian attempt to broker a cease-fire to end the worst outbreak of hostilities over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh in more than a quarter-century has failed to get any traction, with Azerbaijan and Armenia trading blame for new attacks. (Ismail Coskun/IHA via AP, File)

Nagorno-Karabakh fighting raises threat of deadly escalation

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Russia vows in-kind response to EU sanctions over Navalny

Associated Press

In this photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a meeting with Armenia's Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan in Moscow on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP) **FILE**

Russia threatens to halt dialogue with EU amid Navalny spat

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Protesters demonstrate in the central square in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Sooronbai Jeenbekov, the embattled president of Kyrgyzstan, has moved to end the political turmoil that followed a disputed parliamentary election, ordering a state of emergency in the capital. Jeenbekov has faced calls to resign by protesters who stormed government buildings after Sunday’s parliamentary vote was reportedly swept by pro-government parties. Protesters freed former President Almazbek Atambayev, who was jailed on charges seen by his supporters as a political vendetta. (AP Photo/Vladimir Voronin)

Vladimir Putin threatened by China, Turkey as clashes close to home mount

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

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

Police detain a protester during a rally to support former region's governor Sergei Furgal in Khabarovsk, 6,100 kilometers (3,800 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. Police in a far eastern Russian city have detained several dozen protesters in the first such crackdown since rallies against the arrest of the provincial governor started three months ago. Khabarovsk Gov. Sergei Furgal was arrested on July 9 on suspicion of involvement in murders and taken to jail in Moscow. (AP Photo/Igor Volkov)

Police detain protesters in Russian city of Khabarovsk

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A man gestures in the yard of a house destroyed by shelling by Azerbaijan's artillery during a military conflict in Stepanakert, the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. The latest outburst of fighting between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces began Sept. 27 and marked the biggest escalation of the decades-old conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. The region lies in Azerbaijan but has been under control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since the end of a separatist war in 1994. (AP Photo)

Armenia, Azerbaijan say Nagorno-Karabakh truce violated

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

A general view shows the courtroom at the beginning of the trial of defendant Vadim K. in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. The 55-year-old man accused of gunning down a former Chechen commander, a Georgian national, in Kleiner Tiergarten Park, on August 23, 2019 has so far stayed mum over the case. (Odd Andersen/Pool Photo via AP)

Russian on trial accused of state-ordered Berlin execution

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

In this photo posted on the Instagram account of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, Navalny, center, poses for a photo with his wife Yulia and their son Zahar in an unknown location in Germany. (Alexei Navalny's Instagram Account via AP)

Russian envoy hits back at calls for Navalny investigation

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020 photo, an Armenian soldier fires an artillery piece during fighting with Azerbaijan's forces in self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan. Heavy fighting between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces in the region since Sept. 27 has since killed scores of troops and civilians. Nagorno-Karabakh lies inside Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since the end of a separatist war in 1994. The clashes have continued despite numerous international calls for a cease-fire. (Press office of Armenian Defense Ministry PAN Photo via AP)

Russia and Iran undermine peace in the Caucasus

By S. Rob Sobhani

In this photo taken from a footage released on Sept. 22, 2020 by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, Paratroopers attend a military exercises at the Ashuluk military base in Southern Russia. Russian Air Defense systems successfully repelled aerial strike during joined military drills in the south of Russia. The drills, expected to be held in Black Sea and Caspian sea waters, will take place until September 26th. Belarus, Armenia, China, Pakistan and Myanmar take part in the exercises. (Vadim Grishankin/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Vladimir Putin funds Russia military modernization at record post-Cold War levels

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this July 12, 2018, file photo, FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok is seated to testify before the House Committees on the Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform during a hearing on "Oversight of FBI and DOJ Actions Surrounding the 2016 Election," on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

FBI anti-Trump efforts revealed as William Barnett talks to John Durham

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this photo published by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on his Instagram account on Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia pose for a photo in a hospital in Berlin. Navalny on Monday demanded that Russia returned clothes he was wearing on the day he fell into a coma, calling it a “crucial piece of evidence” of a suspected nerve agent poisoning he is being treated for at the German hospital. (Navalny Instagram via AP)

Navalny says nerve agent was found ‘in and on’ his body

By Daria Litvinova - Associated Press

In this photo taken from a video published by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on his instagram account, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny walks down stairs in a hospital in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. Navalny, who is being treated in a German hospital for suspected poisoning by a nerve agent, says on social media that he is recovering verbal and physical abilities despite despairing at first. (Navalny Instagram via AP)

Russia’s Navalny says he’s now more than ‘technically alive’

By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press