VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a state-of-the-nation address in Moscow, Russia, February 20, 2019. (Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

February 20, 2019, 3:19 pm

Putin sternly warns US against putting missiles in Europe

Russian leader says Washington abandoned a key arms control pact, further inflaming tensions between the two countries

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the plenary session at the 5th Caspian Summit in Aktau on August 12, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Sputnik / Alexey NIKOLSKY)

December 30, 2018, 4:21 pm

Putin scores some wins in 2018, but tensions with West mount

US pullout of Syria may be seen as a victory, but Moscow is left with challenges in Syria and Afghanistan, balancing Israeli and Iranian interests and fighting crippling sanctions

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia, December 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

December 20, 2018, 6:36 pm

Putin issues chilling warning on rising nuclear war threat

Escalating his rhetoric, Russian leader says atomic warfare ‘could lead to the destruction of civilization,’ warns West antagonizes Moscow at its own peril

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

This image made from video shows the scene as emergency services load an injured person onto a truck, in Kerch, Crimea, Wednesday Oct. 17, 2018. (Kerch FM News via AP)

October 17, 2018, 2:41 pm

Explosive device kills 13, injures dozens at Crimean college

Anti-terror committee confirms blast caused by bomb; Kremlin official says investigators regard incident as possible terror attack

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and NATALIYA VASILYEVA

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov enters a hall during his meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero in Moscow, Russia, Monday, October 8, 2018 (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

October 9, 2018, 12:42 am

Russia dismisses suspected spy hacking as routine trip to The Hague

Sergey Lavrov denies 4 people tried to break into chemical weapons watchdog computer system; investigative group says suspect in UK poisoning is a doctor for Russian intelligence

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and Gregory Katz

The building of a US laboratory in Georgia is shown in a picture released by the Russian Defense Ministry during a briefing in the ministry's headquarters in Moscow, Russia, October 4, 2018. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, via AP)

October 4, 2018, 11:37 pm

Russia claims US running secret biological weapons lab in Georgia

Moscow says Richard G. Lugar Center for Public Health Research hides sinister activities behind peaceful facade; Pentagon dismisses ‘imaginative’ disinformation

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and US President Donald Trump shake hands before a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski)

July 16, 2018, 4:12 pm

Trump to Putin: We’ll have ‘an extraordinary relationship’

At summit in Helsinki, US president says two countries ‘have not been getting on’ but that’ll change, claims talks off to a ‘very, very good start’

By Jonathan Lemire, Jill Colvin and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

In this May 20, 2000 file photo, two Russian soldiers make a routine check of metal containers with toxic agents at the Shikhany chemical weapons storage site in the town of Gorny, 124 miles (200 kms) south of the Volga River city of Saratov, Russia. (AP Photo, File)

April 23, 2018, 4:56 pm

The men behind the Cold War poison that surfaced in a quiet English town

Israel was reportedly deeply concerned that Anatoly Kuntsevich, one of the men behind ‘Novichok’, was working with Damascus, and repeatedly warned Moscow, but to no avail

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

This Sunday, April. 8, 2018 image released by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, shows a rescue worker carrying a child following an alleged chemical weapons attack in the rebel-held town of Douma, near Damascus, Syria. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

April 13, 2018, 8:27 pm

Russia says alleged gas attack in Syria was staged by UK

Russian claim that London behind ‘premeditated provocation’ comes ahead of visit by team from chemical weapons watchdog to site of assault

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking at a youth forum 'Russia, Land of Opportunity' in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 15, 2018. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

March 17, 2018, 3:23 am

Ahead of an election he is sure to win, Putin urges high voter turnout

Russian president is poised to get another six-year term, but Kremlin is concerned about voter apathy

Military personnel in College Street Car Park in Salisbury, Sunday March 11, 2018, as police and members of the armed forces probe the suspected nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, which took place on March 4. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)

March 15, 2018, 4:47 pm

US, France, Germany blame Russia for UK nerve agent attack

In joint statement, Western leaders say ‘no plausible alternative explanation’ to Moscow’s involvement in poisoning of Sergei Skripal

By DANICA KIRKA, Jill Lawless and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends a meeting with his counterpart from Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

March 15, 2018, 1:50 pm

Russian foreign minister says it will ‘certainly’ expel UK diplomats

As spat continues over poisoning of former spy and bilateral ties sink to Cold War-level low, Sergey Lavrov vows to retaliate ‘soon’

By DANICA KIRKA, Jill Lawless and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Sergei Skripal speaks to his lawyer from behind bars in Moscow, August 9, 2006 (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

March 5, 2018, 9:50 pm

Ex-Russian spy in critical condition after exposure to ‘unknown substance’

Sergei Skripal, who fed info to British intelligence, found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury along with another woman

By Raphael Satter and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Russia's new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile blasts off during a test launch from an undisclosed location in Russia, March 1, 2018. (RU-RTR Russian Television via AP)

March 1, 2018, 2:15 pm

Putin boasts of new Russian nuclear weapons that ‘can’t be intercepted’

Russian president says country tested cruise missile with ‘unlimited’ range, an intercontinental hyper-sonic missile that strikes ‘like a meteorite’

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

In this Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 photo Russian military police soldiers walk out side a hospital in Deir el-Zour, Syria. (AP Photo)

February 14, 2018, 7:55 am

Reports: Russian contractors killed by US strike in Syria

Moscow and Washington remain tight-lipped about what happened during clash for control of oil-rich Deir el-Zour province

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV