Tag: Russia

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang gestures as he speaks during a daily briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Beijing.

China says its Russia partnership is designed to blunt US ‘strategic edge’

Joel Gehrke · June 6, 2019 10:06 pm

An assault amphibious vehicle (AAV), assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), approaches the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) in the Philippine Sea, Jan. 14, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Would Americans support a modern D-Day?

Tom Rogan · June 6, 2019 8:05 pm

Protesters rally outside a Trump hotel to call for the impeachment of President Trump in New York.

Beltway Confidential

Impeach without a Senate trial? The Left’s new idea to waste time

Eddie Scarry · June 6, 2019 6:54 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, poses for a photo with Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova during an awarding ceremony in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017.

Beltway Confidential

How Putin uses D-Day to his political advantage

Tom Rogan · June 6, 2019 5:21 pm

U.S. infantrymen wade through the surf as they land at Normandy in the days following the Allies' June 1944, D-Day invasion of occupied France. An allied ship loaded with supplies and reinforcements waits on the horizon.

Beltway Confidential

Russia’s foreign ministry needs to read more World War II history

Tom Rogan · June 6, 2019 4:15 pm

Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukrainian actor and candidate in the upcoming presidential election, hosts a comedy show at a concert hall in Brovary, Ukraine, Friday, March 29, 2019. Zelenskiy now surging ahead of both Tymoshenko and Poroshenko in the presidential context according to polls.

Western officials say new Ukrainian president poses threat to Putin

Joel Gehrke · June 6, 2019 4:00 am

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies on Capitol Hill during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

NYT reporter: Sources say Christopher Steele worried DOJ inspector general will ‘throw him under the bus’

Jerry Dunleavy · June 6, 2019 3:36 am

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks to supporters outside Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, May 20, 2109. Maduro is celebrating the anniversary of his disputed re-election amid a growing humanitarian crisis and political upheaval.

‘The rats are abandoning the ship’: Lawmaker says Maduro losing Russian support

Joel Gehrke · June 5, 2019 9:45 pm

Landing craft coming in to a beach in France on June 7, 1944, set American fighting men down on the continent for the invasion of Fortress Europe, as their comrades already landed form on the shore.

‘Hitlers armies HUMILIATED you’: Russian spokeswoman mocked for downplaying D-Day

John Gage · June 5, 2019 8:09 pm

Jerry Nadler and Robert Mueller are seen.

Jerry Nadler ‘confident’ Robert Mueller will testify publicly but will subpoena him ‘if we have to’

Jerry Dunleavy · June 5, 2019 7:48 pm

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 5, 2019.

Pelosi: Trump is threatening Mexico tariffs to distract from Mueller report

Susan Ferrechio · June 5, 2019 3:54 pm

Washington Secrets

ICE: Students from Iran, Russia, China stealing military, high-tech secrets

Paul Bedard · June 5, 2019 3:13 pm