Supporters of Alexei Navalny believe that tea he drank was laced with poison – and contend that the Kremlin is responsible.
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Posted inElections, Nation & World, Politics
Read the report: Senate Intelligence panel finds Russia interfered in 2016 election on behalf of Trump
The Senate panel described its report, totaling more than 1,300 pages, as “the most comprehensive description to date of Russia’s activities and the threat they posed.”
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Commentary: Maine’s senators must stand firm against sending envoy to Belarus
A Mainer who lived there as a Fulbright Scholar advises waiting until the departure of the dictatorship’s president, who is violently suppressing widespread protests.
Posted inNation & World
Pro-Russia vaccine misinformation finds home in U.S. Facebook groups
A false report claiming five Ukrainians had died after taking an American-made vaccine spread in just a matter of days from a small Kremlin-friendly Ukrainian website to an audience of thousands.
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Russia pushing virus disinformation online, U.S. says
The State Department says Russia is using social media, state-funded media and a loose network of proxy websites to amplify conspiracy theories around the pandemic.
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Ex-Justice official says Flynn secretly ‘neutered’ Obama’s actions on Russia
Sally Yates has been a target of the president and many Republicans for her brief oversight of the investigation of Russia’s election interference in 2016 and possible conspiracy with the Trump campaign.
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Pompeo says he’s warned Russia about threats to U.S. in Afghanistan
The secretary of state also defends the Trump administration’s tough line on China, saying the communist nation represents a potent threat to the U.S.
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Trump says he hasn’t talked to Putin about alleged Russian bounties on U.S. troops
Trump continued to cast doubt on the intelligence.
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U.S. officials say Russia spreading virus disinformation
U.S. officials say Russian intelligence officers are trying to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain before the presidential election in November.
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Leonard Pitts: Russian bounty briefing or meeting with Fox stars – Trump’s choice is obvious
For every egregious misstep, the president has an excuse. Will this latest episode be a bridge too far for his supporters?