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US renews Russian oil waiver after pressure from countries dealing with Iran war price shocks

The Treasury Department's waiver lets countries purchase Russian oil and petroleum products loaded on vessels as of Friday through May 16.

An aerial view shows the oil tanker named Boracay (also called Pushpa), a vessel being investigated by French authorities and suspected of belonging to the so-called "shadow fleet" involved in the Russian oil trade, off the coast of the western France port of Saint-Nazaire, France, October 2, 2025
FILE PHOTO: A Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster with a Progress MS-33 cargo spacecraft blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan March 22, 2026.

New Russian space launch vehicle undergoing final tests, top official says

US President Donald Trump looks on next to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a press conference following their meeting to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, in Anchorage, Alaska, August 15, 2025; illustrative.

Trump rejects Putin's proposal to move Iranian enriched uranium to Russia, end war - Axios

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia February 9, 2026.

Russia accuses US and Israel of trying to drag Arab countries into wider Middle East conflict


Moscow diplomats meet with Russian detained in US on cybercrime charges

Dunaev was a member of a cybercriminal organization that deployed a computer banking trojan and ransomware suite of malware known as "Trickbot", the Justice Department said.

 Hacker (illustrative)

Ultra-nationalists aim to restrict travel for Russian officials' families

RIA reported that restrictions may also affect, among others, law enforcement officers, judges, top managers of state corporations, and the board of directors of the Central Bank.

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) leader Leonid Slutsky at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia February 13, 2023

Russia said to step up Syria airstrikes, disputes crisis at home - analysis

Russia appeared weak as it faced internal chaos. This could be a reason for these new rounds of airstrikes.

Sukhoi Su-35 jet fighters of the Russian Knights aerobatic team perform during International military-technical forum "Army-2020" at Kubinka airbase in Moscow Region August 25, 2020

Russian agents attempted assassination of CIA informant in US

This attempted assassination on American soil adds to the growing list of accusations against Russia regarding assassinations abroad. 

 Russian and US state flags fly near a factory in Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region, Russia March 27, 2019

Russia warns Ukraine against striking Crimea with US, British missiles

Kyiv says it wants to reclaim all of its territory, including the Crimean peninsula

 Rescuers work at the site of residential houses heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine June 14, 2023.

New US military aid to Ukraine pushes Washington deeper in conflict - Russia

"The United States is getting deeper and deeper into the abyss of the Ukrainian crisis," Antonov was quoted as saying in a post on the embassy's Telegram messaging channel.

 A Ukrainian serviceman with the "5 Separate Assault Brigade", fires an RPG on a training ground, amid Russia?s attack on Ukraine, in the region of Bakhmut, Ukraine, April 6, 2023.

US House unanimously backs measure urging Russia to release WSJ reporter

The United States says Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been wrongfully detained and has called for his immediate release.

 Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was detained in March while on a reporting trip and charged with espionage, stands behind a glass wall of an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing to consider an appeal against his detention, in Moscow, Russia April 18, 2023

Moscow court detains US citizen on drug charges

If found guilty, he can face up to 12 years in prison.

 A courthouse in Moscow, Russia.

Russia says West trying to confuse the world over Nord Stream culprits

Russia has repeatedly said the West was behind the blasts affecting the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines last September.

 PIPES AT the landfall facilities of the ‘Nord Stream 1’ gas pipeline in Lubmin, Germany: European Union nations have shrunk away from energy independence for years, groveling to projects such as Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, says the writer.

Russia's FSB says US penetrated thousands of Apple phones in spy plot

The FSB said that several thousand Apple phones had been infected, including phones of foreign diplomats from NATO members, Israel, Syria and China.

 Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a meeting of the Federal Security Service (FSB) collegium in Moscow, Russia, February 28, 2023.