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Illustration on the U.S. withdrawal from the INF treaty by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

President Trump’s Russian conundrum

By Douglas Macgregor

In this handout photo taken from the Federal News Agency website on Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, Elena Khusyaynova, an accountant poses for a photo. As Americans prepare for another election, Russian troublemakers appear to laboring afresh to divide U.S. voters and discredit democracy, and perhaps even sway the outcome. The first person charged with foreign interference in the 2018 midterms, Elena Khusyaynova, said “my heart filled with pride&quot; at the accusation. Speaking last week on Russian TV after being indicted for a covert social media campaign for both the 2016 and 2018 votes, she added, &quot;It turns out that a simple Russian woman could help citizens of a superpower elect their president.” (Federal News Agency via AP)

Why it’s still in Russia’s interest to mess with US politics

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

Idaho man convicted in gruesome murder of friend

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In this Thursday, March 16, 2017 photo, people walk past portraits and flowers at the place where Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down a two years ago, in Moscow, with St. Basil Cathedral in the background in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

John Bolton’s tribute to slain Russian opposition activist ransacked by vandals: Report

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this April 17, 2007, file photo exhibitors of the Google company work in front of a illuminated sign at the industrial fair Hannover Messe in Hanover, Germany. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, File)

Russia to impose fine on Google for failing to filter banned sites

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Russia says it busted up an Islamic State group sleeper cell

Associated Press

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg talks to journalists during a news conference at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. Stoltenberg briefed reporters on alleged Russian breaches of the INF international missile agreement, and on the alliance's military exercises in Norway, its biggest since the Cold War. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

NATO’s biggest peacetime drill kicks off, angering Moscow

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

National security adviser John R. Bolton met this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and said President Trump intends to withdraw from the Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. (Associated Press)

Vladimir Putin’s Russia can’t win U.S. arms race

By L. Todd Wood

People gather for the Communist Party rally protesting retirement age hikes in St.Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018. Several thousand people gathered in central Moscow and St.Petersburg on Sunday for a protest organized by the Communist Party and other demonstrations were reported in Vladivostok in the Far East and Barnaul and Novosibirsk in Siberia. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Vladimir Putin Russia fall aids communists, Liberal Democrats

By Marc Bennetts — Special to The Washington Times

U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov enter a hall for their talks in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018. U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser has met with top Russian officials after Trump declared he intended to pull out of a 1987 nuclear weapons treaty. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

The Latest: Bolton: Russia hurt itself meddling in US vote

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U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov shake hands prior to their talks in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018. U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser has met with top Russian officials after Trump declared he intended to pull out of a 1987 nuclear weapons treaty. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

No olives? Putin pokes fun at U.S. seal amid arms pact dispute

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press

Russia says US is increasing nukes in military planning

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

President Donald Trump stops to talk to members of the media before walking across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, to board Marine One helicopter for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to Houston. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Donald Trump threatens to pull out of Russia nuclear treaty

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, June 27, 2018, file photo, U.S. National security adviser John Bolton waits for the talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool) ** FILE **

John Bolton in Moscow after Donald Trump aims to exit treaty

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov smiles as he speaks to Madagascar's Foreign Minister Eloi Maxime Alphonse Dovo during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018. Lavrov will meet with U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton for high-tension talks in Moscow, after President Donald Trump announced his intention to withdraw from a landmark nuclear weapons treaty. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

CROSSTALK: Bolton in Moscow: But on whose agenda?

By Edward Lozansky

In this Dec. 8, 1987, file photo U.S. President Ronald Reagan, right, and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev exchange pens during the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signing ceremony in the White House East Room in Washington, D.C. Gorbachev's translator Pavel Palazhchenko stands in the middle. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File)

Bolton faces tense talks with Russia over nuclear treaty

By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press

Director General of the Russia state corporation Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, right, talks with Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jim Bridenstine in Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. (Yuri Kochetkov, Pool Photo via AP)

White House lifts entry ban on Russian space chief sanctioned by Obama: Report

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Sweet on Putin Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Nikki Haley’s distinguished turn as U.N. ambassador

By Donald Lambro

This cover image released by HarperOne shows &quot;Read &amp; Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism,&quot; by Nadya Tolokonnikova. (HarperOne via AP)

Review: Pussy Riot founder’s guide to political activism

By ANN LEVIN - Associated Press

This undated handout image issued by Bellingcat shows photos of Dr Alexander Yevgenyevich Mishkin, the man the investigative website have alleged was who travelled to Salisbury under the alias Alexander Petrov, over the years. The investigative group Bellingcat is reporting that one of the two suspects in the poisoning of an ex-spy in England is a doctor who works for Russian military intelligence. Bellingcat said on its website Monday, Oct. 8, 2018 that the man British authorities identified as Alexander Petrov is actually Alexander Mishkin, a trained doctor working for the Russian military intelligence unit known as GRU. (Bellingcat via AP)

Poisoning suspect honored by Putin in 2014, UK group says

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press