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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, right, is escorted from the Lefortovsky court in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained on espionage charges, lost an appeal Friday against his arrest, meaning he will stay in jail until the end of March, Russian state news agencies reported. The hearing took place behind closed doors because authorities say details of the criminal case against the American journalist are classified. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Pretrial detention for American reporter accused of spying in Russia extended through March

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Robert Woodland Romanov speaks to a journalist during his interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper in Moscow, Russia, on Dec. 2020. A U.S. citizen identified as Robert Woodland Romanov was arrested in Russia on drug charges and a Moscow court ruled to keep him in custody for two months pending investigation. (Anastasia Vardanyan, Komsomolskaya Pravda via AP)

A U.S. citizen has been arrested in Moscow on drug charges, Russian officials say

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A nuclear-armed Iranian Islamic empire throughout the Middle East and beyond

All the ayatollah’s men: Iran’s proxies are fighting on many fronts

By Clifford D. May

In this photo taken from video released by Russia Emergency Situations Ministry telegram channel on Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023, firefighters extinguish burning cars after shelling in Belgorod, Russia. Russian officials have accused Ukrainian forces of shelling the Russian border city of Belgorod. Two children were killed in Saturday's attack, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said in a statement on social media. He also said that an unspecified number of people had been injured. (Russia Emergency Situations Ministry telegram channel via AP)

Shelling kills 21 in Russian city of Belgorod following Moscow’s aerial attacks across Ukraine

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FILE - Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose for a photo prior to a session of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. Belarus’ authoritarian leader has attended a meeting with children from Russia-controlled areas of Ukraine, openly defying an international outrage over his country’s involvement in Moscow’s deportation of Ukrainian children. President Alexander Lukashenko spoke during a meeting on Thursday marking the arrival of a new group of Ukrainian children ahead of the New Year holiday. (Konstantin Zavrazhin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

More Ukrainian children from Ukraine’s Russia-held regions arrive in Belarus despite global outrage

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

Heavy equipment is used to demolish the house where four University of Idaho students were killed in 2022 on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. Students Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves were fatally stabbed there in November 2022. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

House where 4 University of Idaho students were killed is being demolished

By Claire Rush and Ted Warren - Associated Press

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny gestures while speaking to a crowd during a political protest in Moscow, Russia on July 20, 2019. Associates of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle nearly three weeks after contact with him was lost. Navalny, the most prominent foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny resurfaces with darkly humorous comments

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, seen on a TV screen as he appears in a video link provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service from the colony in Melekhovo, Vladimir region, during a hearing at the Russian Supreme Court in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Navalny, 47, is serving a 19-year prison term on extremism charges. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Navalny located in penal colony 3 weeks after contact lost

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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gerhskovich, arrested in Russia on espionage charges, will remain in detention until Jan. 30, a court in Moscow ruled on Thursday. The hearing took place behind closed doors because authorities say details of the criminal case against the American journalist are classified. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)

Russian official says U.S. is hampering a prisoner exchange with unequal demands

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an Orthodox Easter service in the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, April 15, 2023. President Vladimir Putin is likely to win another six-year term easily in an election expected in March, using his sweeping grip on Russia’s political scene to extend his tenure of over two decades in power. But he faces daunting challenges. (Sergei Karpukhin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Russia’s ruling party backs Putin’s reelection bid while a pro-peace candidate clears first hurdle

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a TV screen as he appears in a video link provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service from the colony in Melekhovo, Vladimir region, during a hearing at the Russian Supreme Court in Moscow, Russia, on June 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Kremlin foe Navalny was moved from a prison east of Moscow, his allies say, but new site is unclear

By Dasha Litvinova - Associated Press

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. Gerhskovich, arrested in Russia on espionage charges, will remain in detention until Jan. 30, a court in Moscow ruled on Thursday. The hearing took place behind closed doors because authorities say details of the criminal case against the American journalist are classified. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)

Putin says Russia is in dialogue with the U.S. on exchanging jailed Americans Gershkovich and Whelan

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In this photo released by Uzbekistan's President Press Office, Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi attends the Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. (Uzbekistan's President Press Office via AP) ** FILE **

Iran-Russia alliance tightens with Moscow summit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine who was arrested for alleged spying, listens to the verdict in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia, June 15, 2020. Brittney Griner is easily the most prominent American locked up by a foreign country. But the WNBA star’s case is tangled up with that of another prisoner few Americans have ever heard of. Paul Whelan has been held in Russia since his December 2018 arrest on espionage charges he and the U.S. government say are false. (Sofia Sandurskaya, Moscow News Agency photo via AP)

Russia rejects U.S. offer to bring home jailed Americans Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich

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A man walks down a street during heavy snowfall in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. A record snowfall has hit Russia's capital bringing an additional 10 cm (3,9 inches) to already high levels of snow and causing disruption at the capital's airports and on roads. (Denis Voronin/Moscow News Agency via AP)

Heavy snowfall hits Moscow as Russian media report disruption on roads and at airports

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In this photo released by Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhayev telegram channel, rescuers evacuee people after storm and flooding in Sevastopol, Crimea, Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. A storm in the Black Sea took down power grids and left almost half a million people without power after it flooded roads, ripped up trees and damaged buildings in Crimea, Russian state news agency Tass said. (Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhayev's telegram channel via AP)

More than half a million people left without power in Crimea, Russia and Ukraine after huge storm

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during a joint press conference with Venezuela's Foreign Minister Yvan Gil Pinto in Moscow, Russia, on Nov. 16, 2023. Lavrov says he plans to travel to NATO member North Macedonia later this week to attend a conference of a top trans-Atlantic security and rights group, a trip that would mark his first visit to a NATO country since Moscow sent troops to Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

Russian FM says he plans to attend OSCE meeting in North Macedonia

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The bodies of Russian soldiers lay at the frontline in Andriivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. Ukrainian brigade's two-month battle to fight its way through a charred forest shows the challenges of the country's counteroffensive in the east and south. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

Dead, wounded or AWOL: The voices of desperate Russian soldiers trying to get out of the Ukraine war

By Erika Kinetz - Associated Press

People walk and take photos on a street closed for cars at dusk in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Russia says it downed dozens of Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow, following a mass strike on Kyiv

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Fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah carry out a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District, southern Lebanon, Sunday, May 21, 2023. Forty years after one of the deadliest attacks against U.S. troops in the Middle East, some warn that Washington could be sliding toward a new conflict in the region. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) **FILE**

Russia’s Wagner group may provide Hezbollah with anti-aircraft weapons: White House

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times