Online posts, including pictures and videos, have given away the locations and activities of Russian troops, exposing Kremlin falsehoods about actions in Ukraine and Syria.
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Russians, Feeling Poor and Protesting Garbage, Suffer Winter Blues
Plans to ship Moscow’s trash to the provinces are aggravating economic unrest. Confidence in Russia’s direction and in President Vladimir V. Putin have dropped.
Anti-Iran Message Seeps Into Trump Forum Billed as Focusing on Mideast Security
Some American allies are anxious about mixed signals and ad hoc arrangements for the gathering — the first of Middle East states, Europe and the United States in years.
A Call to Putin, and Russian TV Changed Its Story
The former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi describes the 2016 exchange with the Russian president in his new book.
Russia Dispatch: A Sparkling Shrine to a Reviled Russian Leader
Boris Yeltsin is widely held responsible in Russia for destroying the Soviet Union. A new museum seeks to counter that image — and subtly rebuke President Vladimir V. Putin.
With North Macedonia’s Inclusion, NATO Gets a Boost That Sends a Message
Political analysts said the accession of the country now known as North Macedonia to NATO, which could be complete by year’s end, was a setback for Russia.
Putin Warns That Russia Is Developing ‘Invincible’ Hypersonic Missiles
The claim comes after the U.S. withdrew from a weapons control treaty, but some experts say it may be a bluff, because Moscow cannot afford an arms race.
Russia Pulls Out of Nuclear Treaty in ‘Symmetrical’ Response to U.S. Move
Russia will no longer observe the 1987 nuclear pact, which the Trump administration suspended on Friday. China urged both powers to observe the agreement, but showed no interest in joining it.
U.S. Suspends Nuclear Arms Control Treaty With Russia
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged a risk of a new arms race after the suspension of a 1987 treaty banning the deployment of intermediate-range missiles.
For the Kremlin, Venezuela Is Not the Next Syria
It is too far away and intervention would be too costly. Moscow will probably content itself with hurling insults at the U.S. from the sidelines.