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Russia denies US claim it seeks ‘false flag’ pretext to invade Ukraine
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed the U.S. claim about a "false flag" pretext for invasion as “total disinformation.”
Russia’s northernmost base projects its power across Arctic
The Russian base was built using new construction technologies as part of Kremlin efforts to bolster the military amid spiraling tensions with the West following Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.
Russia hints it may return to Open Skies Treaty if US does
Moscow announced last month that it would leave the Open Skies Treaty following the U.S. departure from the pact last year.
US sees ‘important progress’ in Helsinki nuclear arms talks
Monday’s talks are thought to have focused on producing a new agreement to replace, or to extend, the New START treaty that expires in February.
Pompeo says threats to US in Afghanistan raised with Russian officials
Pompeo’s testimony came a day after President Donald Trump told an interviewer he had not raised the bounty allegations in numerous phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Key House Democrats want to lock in New START weapons limits
The chairmen of the House foreign affairs and intelligence committees are pushing a measure meant to extend the last remaining U.S.-Russia arms control agreement amid fears President Donald Trump will let it lapse.
By Joe Gould
Russia’s foreign minister mocks intel on bounties to Taliban for killing American troops
Russia’s top diplomat on Friday dismissed U.S. intelligence information alleging that Moscow offered bounties to the Taliban for killing American soldiers as a product of election year politics in Washington.
Top US and Russian diplomats discussed ways to end Syria war
Top U.S. and Russian diplomats discussed step-by-step implementation of a 2012 roadmap to U.N.-supervised elections in Syria that could allow a Syrian government "to move back into the international community," the U.S. envoy for the war-torn country said Wednesday.
By Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press
Venezuela thrust to forefront of US-Russia clashes
The crisis in Venezuela has been thrust to the top of a list of long-simmering spats between the United States and Russia, with both sides entrenched in diametrically opposed positions from which they are unwilling to retreat.
Russia sends troops to Venezuela, a move Pompeo says increases tensions
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has told the Russian foreign minister that Russia’s dispatch of military personnel to Venezuela is increasing tensions there.
Russia puts deep roots in Syria, warns West against meddling
The same day that Russian diplomats struck a deal with Turkey over a demilitarized zone in Syria’s last rebel-run region, dozens of Russian businessmen were flying home from Damascus, contracts in hand for trade with a postwar Syria.
By Angela Charlton, The Associated Press