There was no easy way for the mayor of Moscow to respond to this weekend’s race riots. On Sunday night, a violent mob clashed with police in the south of the city, hurling bottles, destroying property and screaming for a purge of …
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Snowden Father Arrives in Moscow
Hopes to meet fugitive son, thanks Russia for protecting his freedom
Taking Lead in Syria Talks, Russia Works to Preserve Assad Regime
On Thursday, Sept. 12, when Russian and American diplomats came to the negotiating table in Geneva, the Russian side came in with the upper hand. The previous night, they had sent Washington a proposal for dismantling Syria’s …
The Failed Saudi-Russian Talks: Desperate Diplomacy as Syria Implodes
Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief reportedly offered Russian President Vladimir Putin a multibillion-dollar arms deal to curb Moscow’s support for the Syrian regime
7 Things Edward Snowden Should Do in Russia
A year is barely enough time to study a country as strange and enormous as Russia. So Edward Snowden, the American whistle-blower who was granted a year of asylum in Russia on July 31, will have to make good use of it if, as his …
Snowden Reads Crime and Punishment as Stay in Moscow Airport Lengthens
On Wednesday afternoon, a pack of reporters gathered to meet Edward Snowden outside the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, where the American whistle-blower, on the run from U.S. justice, has been stranded for a …
Russian Court Jails Putin’s Most Influential Opponent
There were moments during the trial of Alexei Navalny, leader of the Russian opposition movement, when his dark realism seemed to lift, allowing him to believe that the Kremlin would not go so far as to throw its fiercest critic …
Snowden in Moscow: What Russian Authorities Might Be Doing With the NSA Whistle-Blower
Former Russian security officials and spies suspect NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is being kept in a Russian safehouse outside Moscow and will struggle to escape his Russian handlers without sharing his secrets.
How the West Enabled Snowden’s Bid for Latin American Asylum
Let’s say, as Bolivian President Evo Morales insists, that the U.S. did urge European officials to deny Morales their air space on his flight home from Moscow last week because fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden was rumored …
Putin Turns His Back on Snowden — and His Own Anti-Americanism
It must have been somewhat painful for Edward Snowden to turn down asylum in Russia. Stranded for more than a week in a Moscow airport, the fugitive from U.S. justice seems to have few places left to hide. He is wanted for …
Snowden and Putin: U.S. Whistle-Blower’s Fate Is in Russian President’s Hands
For Russia’s spy agencies, the arrival of Edward Snowden in Moscow on Sunday would have presented a great temptation, like a king salmon jumping into the lap of a grizzly bear. Here was a bona fide American intelligence source …
Israeli Security Officials Speak to TIME of Their Own Snowdens
In Israel, the headlines call Edward J. Snowden “the American Vanunu,” which perhaps sounds like an island nation in the South Pacific. Mordechai Vanunu is the Israeli man who in 1986 left his job at the nuclear power …
Snowden’s Hong Kong Escape: Behind the Role That Beijing Played
Wherever Edward Snowden is now — according to WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson it is in a “safe” if secret location; according to Russian President Vladimir Putin, a transit zone in Moscow’s airport — it is clear that …