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Maria Antonova
US National Security Adviser John Bolton, left, is greeted by Russian Security Council chairman Nikolai Patrushev in Moscow, Russia, October 22, 2018. (Press Service of the Russian Security Council via AP)
October 22, 2018, 11:50 pm
Russians tell US security chief they’re ready to cooperate over nuclear treaty
Bolton expected to discuss future of arms pact with Putin on Tuesday; UN Security Council warns accord’s end would deal ‘serious blow to non-proliferation and arms control’
By Maria Antonova and Anna SMOLCHENKO
Presidential candidate President Vladimir Putin addresses the crowd during a rally and a concert celebrating the fourth anniversary of Russia's annexation of Crimea at Manezhnaya Square in Moscow, on March 18, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV)
March 19, 2018, 12:04 am
Putin rejects spy attack claims, as chemical weapons experts head to UK
Moscow suggests Britain behind poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia; international experts collect samples of nerve agent for testing
By Maria Antonova and Rosie SCAMMELL
Presidential candidate President Vladimir Putin speaks, as he meets with confidants at his campaign headquarters in Moscow, on March 18, 2018. (AFP/Yuri Kadobnov)
March 19, 2018, 12:03 am
Putin storms to landslide election win as opposition cries foul
Russian president wins more than 75% of votes for another 6-year term, amid claims of voter fraud
By Maria Antonova and Theo Merz
Illustrative: Smoke billows from the eastern city of Deir Ezzor during an operation by Syrian government forces against Islamic State (IS) group jihadists on November 2, 2017. (AFP/Stringer)
February 17, 2018, 2:01 pm
Russian mercenaries, a secretive weapon in Syria
Moscow on Thursday finally recognized that five of its citizens were likely killed in the strikes in the Deir Ezzor province
By Maria Antonova, kremlin and Deir Ezzor
A picture taken during a press tour provided by the Russian Armed Forces on September 15, 2017, shows Russian soldiers standing guard in a central street in Syria's eastern city of Deir Ezzor, as local children pose nearby. (AFP PHOTO / France2 / Dominique DERDA)
September 18, 2017, 8:51 am
Halting ‘tank bombs’ and tunnels, Russia touts helping Syria stop IS
As the jihadist ‘caliphate’ continues to crumble, Moscow is eager to take credit for the regime’s recent advances against the terror group
By Maria Antonova
Russian President Vladimir Putin smiles during a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni following their meeting at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi on May 17, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Yuri Kadobnov)
May 17, 2017, 7:42 pm
Putin ‘ready to provide recording’ of Trump-Lavrov meeting
Russian leader says ‘political schizophrenia’ over reports on shared intelligence is behind ‘anti-Russian slogans’ in US
By Yuri KADOBNOV and Maria Antonova
Vitaly Churkin, Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations speaking to the media after a closed-door session of the Security Council to discuss the situation in Ukraine at UN headquarters in New York, March 7, 2014. (AFP Photo/Stan Honda/File)
February 21, 2017, 12:06 am
Russia’s UN envoy Vitaly Churkin dead at 64
Tenure of long-serving diplomat marked by tensions with West, particularly over Russian involvement in Ukraine and Syria
By Carole LANDRY and Maria Antonova
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on improving interbudgetary relations, at the Kremlin in Moscow on September 26, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / SPUTNIK / Aleksey Nikolskyi)
October 3, 2016, 5:05 pm
Putin scraps key nuclear disarmament deal with ‘unfriendly’ US
Accord was meant to allow both powers to dispose of weapons-grade plutonium; suspension shows collapsing partnership against nuclear proliferation
By Maria Antonova
Footage from the Russian Defense Ministry official web site on Thursday, October 1, 2015 a bomb explosion is seen in Syria. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service/AP)
October 1, 2015, 11:09 pm
In second day of airstrikes, Russia’s intentions questioned
Moscow admits it is not only targeting Islamic State, after US-backed rebels claim their camp was struck
By Maya Gebeily and Maria Antonova
A Sukhoi Su-27UB Flanker-C seen in Poland in 2013. (photo credit: CC BY-SA Alan Wilson, Flickr)
September 26, 2015, 12:37 am
What weapons is Russia sending Syria?
Advanced T-90 tanks, multiple-rocket ‘Smerch’ type launchers, and even drones copied from Israeli designs among munitions provided to Assad
By Maria Antonova
Russian-born Jewish poet Joseph Brodsky in 1988. (Photo credit: CC BY-SA, Dutch National Archives/Wikimedia)
April 10, 2015, 2:56 am
Russia opens 1st museum for Jewish Nobel-winning poet
Joseph Brodsky, a dissident whose works clashed with Soviet ideology, was sent into exile then immigrated to US
By Maria Antonova
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