Tag: russia
The Mysterious Shortwave Radio Station Stoking US-Russia Nuclear Fears
Since early this year, RIA-Novosti has published roughly one story per week on UVB-76, suggesting its coded messages are related to missile strikes on...
Russia is ‘teetering on the brink of a recession’ and headed for a disastrous harvest, while Putin’s other top source of cash plunges
Russia could slip into a recession soon and is having its worst harvest in 17 years, further straining an economy that’s already seen energy...
Motorcycle diplomacy: Putin gifts $22k Ural bike to Alaska man who went viral for his Russian wheels
An Alaska man might have walked away as the biggest winner of last week’s high stakes summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian...
Zelenskyy’s speedrun of gratitude—nine thank yous in one minute—shows how foreign leaders talk to Trump
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wasn’t going to risk being accused of being ungrateful this time.
With peace talks on the table and a chance to rebound from...
Trump says he’s arranging for Putin and Zelenskyy to meet face to face, followed by meeting of all 3 presidents
President Donald Trump says he has begun arrangements for a face-to-face meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss a pathway to end...
‘This is the Cuban Missile Crisis in space’: Russia is building a space nuke that could wipe out every satellite in orbit, U.S. warns
As Russia held its Victory Day parade this year, hackers backing the Kremlin hijacked an orbiting satellite that provides television service to Ukraine.
Instead of normal programing,...
Putin agreed to let US, Europe offer NATO-style security protections for Ukraine, Trump envoy says
Special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump to allow the U.S....
Trump could trigger a financial crisis in Russia — if he wants to — but has backed off from his threat of ‘very severe consequences’
The U.S. holds immense leverage over Russia’s economy and ability to continue waging war on Ukraine, but President Donald Trump has backed off from...
Russia Is Cracking Down on End-to-End Encrypted Calls
WIRED copublished an investigation this week with The Markup and CalMatters showing that dozens of data brokers have been hiding their opt-out and personal-data-deletion...
Trump Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Putin in Alaska
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, a proposed U.S. refugee admissions cap that favors white Afrikaners,...
