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Turkish tanks and troops stationed near Syrian town of Manbij, Syria, Tuesday. Oct. 15, 2019. Russia moved to fill the void left by the United States in northern Syria on Tuesday, deploying troops to keep apart advancing Syrian government and Turkish forces.(Ugur Can/DHA via AP)

Fearing US abandonment, Kurds kept back channels wide open

By MATTHEW LEE and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center left, and Saudi Arabia's King Salman, right, attend the official welcome ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Oct. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Russia’s Putin visits Saudi Arabia on Mideast trip

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking at the Summit of leaders from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Kremlin relishes U.S. pullback from Syria, turmoil in Ukraine

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, June 14, 2013 file photo, Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who made the first spacewalk in 1965, attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia. Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, died in Moscow on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. He was 85 (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Alexei Leonov, 1st human to walk in space, dies in Moscow

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin seems content with the unfolding political dramas in Kyiv and Washington. (Associated Press/File)

Vladimir Putin enjoys Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky uproar

By Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy reacts to media questions during Ukraine Belarus forum in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. Three House committees have released dozens of texts between U.S. diplomats in Ukraine discussing how to handle a response to President Donald Trump’s demands that the country launch an investigation into Joe Biden’s family. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Not so funny: Trump drama hobbles Ukraine’s comic-president

By YURAS KARMANAU and ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to media during his press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. Ukraine on Tuesday signed much-anticipated accords with separatists from the country's east, Russia and European monitors that agree a local election can be held in separatist-controlled territory, paving the way for peace talks with Moscow. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Ukraine agrees to election in separatist-controlled east

By YURAS KARMANAU and NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

Russian actor Pavel Ustinov, who was sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison for assaulting police at the July 27 rally, arrives for a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russian court commutes sentence for actor at protest rally

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y. attends a news conference of the Senate Democratic Leadership, Tuesday Sept. 24, 2019, after their policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Schumer: Trump’s reported comments to Russians among ‘the most disturbing things we’ve learned yet’

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, artistic director of Moscow Lenkom Theater, Mark Zakharov, addresses the audience at a reception in Moscow, Russia. Mark Zakharov, a renowned Russian theater and film director whose productions have been widely acclaimed and loved by several generations of Russians, has died on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. He was 85. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service, File)

Russian theater and film director Mark Zakharov dies at 85

Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during a Security Council meeting at U.N. headquarters Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Russia plots ‘surprise’ response to U.S. denying visas to UN delegation

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

A Russian navy missile ship 'Veliky Ustyug' sails off from the Russian naval facility in Tartus, Syria, on patrol in eastern Mediterranean, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019. Two Russian diesel-electric submarines of the project 636.3 Varshavyanka' are seen on the right. Russia has a naval base in Tartus, the only such facility it has outside the former Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Naval base in Syria cements Russia’s Mediterranean foothold

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the InterContinental Barclay New York hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Entangled in US scandal, Ukraine’s president speaks at UN

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

Who is our man in Moldova? (sponsored)

Who is our man in Moldova?

By Darren Spinck

Illustration on Muldova’s leanings towards Russia by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Warning: Moldova is leaning back to Russia

By Bill Shuster

Missing teen’s body recovered from Idaho waterfall

Associated Press

Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine accused of spying, is being held in Moscow's notorious Lefortovo Prison. (Associated Press/File)

Bipartisan resolution takes aim at Russian government over detention of Paul Whelan, former Marine

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, former Russian prisoner, attends his press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. After five years of being locked up in a Russian prison Sentsov was one of the 35 freed Ukrainian prisoners. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine: Director in prisoner swap backs jailed Russians

Associated Press

A woman exits a polling booth before casting at a polling station during a city council election in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019. Residents of Russia's capital are voting in a city council election that is shadowed by a wave of protests that saw the biggest demonstrator turnout in seven years and a notably violent police response. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Strong showing for opposition in Moscow city election

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019 file photo, Police detain an activist during a protest in the center of Moscow, Russia, . People rallied Saturday against the exclusion of some city council candidates from Moscow's upcoming election. A seemingly second-tier local election has evolved into a major challenge to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, triggering the biggest protests against his rule in seven years and causing divisions among his top lieutenants. (AP Photo/File)

Protests over Russian local election make Kremlin nervous

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press