The G-20 summit drew to a close this weekend in St. Petersburg shadowed by the same dark clouds that loomed when it started on Thursday. Deep divisions over whether to punish the Syrian regime for its alleged use of chemical …
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At the G-20, Obama’s Syria Efforts Take a Hit as Putin Gains Support
Whatever his other failings at the G-20 summit on Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama still made the grandest entrance. Driving up to the venue — an imperial palace in the Russian city of St. Petersburg — the other world …
Putin Sets Uncompromising Tone Ahead of G-20 Summit
It was not the most diplomatic way to start a summit of world leaders. On Sept. 4, the day before Russian President Vladimir Putin begins hosting the G-20 summit in his hometown of St. Petersburg, he accused the Obama …
Putin Dismisses Evidence of Chemical Attack But Won’t “Rule Out” Backing Force
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that any military strikes without UN approval would be “aggression”
Police Seize Portrait of Putin in Panties
The painting depicted Putin in a curve-hugging slip combing the hair of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
How Obama’s Putin Snub Is Playing Out in Russia
On Wednesday evening, when U.S. President Obama cancelled his upcoming visit to Moscow, the Russian reaction was perhaps most clear in the way that Vesti, the state’s main propaganda TV channel, conveyed it on the channel’s …
Exclusive: Father of Slain Chechen Plans to Sue FBI for Son’s Wrongful Death
Abdulbaki Todashev, whose 27-year-old son Ibragim was killed in May during an FBI interrogation, landed in the U.S. on Aug. 5 to seek answers from U.S. authorities to questions surrounding his son’s death
Russia’s Anti-Gay Laws: How a Dutch Activist Got Caught in the Crosshairs
A Dutch filmmaker detained by Russian authorities for allegedly promoting homosexuality to a minor spoke with TIME about the LGBT community’s struggle against rising discrimination.
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 Gets Russian Asylum and Leaves Moscow Airport, Finally
On Thursday afternoon, Edward Snowden, who is wanted in the U.S. for leaking the secrets of American intelligence agencies, received asylum in Russia for one year and left the transit zone of the Moscow airport where he had been …
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 …
Court Decision Leaves Putin Foe Free to Run for Mayor of Moscow
On Friday morning, Alexei Navalny, the leader of the Russian opposition movement, was roused out of bed by his prison guards and taken back to court. Just the previous day, he had been convicted of embezzlement, sentenced to five …
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 …