Russian President Vladimir Putin's speeches are usually top news in Russia. But his most recent address in Crimea was mysteriously downplayed by the Kremlin and the state-controlled media.
A California company solely owned by Mikhail Lesin, a former Putin adviser and head of Gazprom-Media, faces two lawsuits from former workers who allege that they were wrongly fired after complaining about working conditions.
What's behind the recent flare-up in violence around the breakaway Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh, and what are the chances of a settlement to the long-running dispute -- or an escalation?
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (Republican-Mississippi) has asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Mikhail Lesin, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s former press minister, violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act or laundered money by acquiring multimillion-dollar homes in the Los Angeles area.
A leading Democrat in the U.S. Senate has called for giving the Ukrainian military "defensive" lethal aid, a move that President Barack Obama has thus far refused.
Washington puts three banks and a shipbuilder on a list of companies to which U.S. nationals and firms are barred from providing longer-term financing or issuing equity.
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, the top negotiator for the United States in the P5+1 talks with Iran over its nuclear program, declined to give a hard date for when negotiations would end.
Weapons bought and paid for by the United States for Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) have gone missing, according to a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction released on July 28.
Less than a week after a Malaysian airliner was shot down over Ukraine, a group of U.S. senators has urged the president to consider designating Ukraine's separatists a "foreign terrorist organization."
Ukraine's security services have published what they say are three intercepted telephone conversations that they say prove rebels were responsible for downing a Malaysian airliner.
The United States and the European Union have significantly strengthened sanctions on Russia over Ukraine, with Washington for the first time directly targeting Russia's banking, military, and energy sectors.
With the 2014 FIFA World Cup soccer championship ending, attention is shifting to Russia, which will host the event in 2018. Questions are already being raised about the cost.
The top two lawmakers on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee have questioned Obama administration officials over sanctions against Russia.
French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy has high hopes as he opens a new play in Sarajevo this week that reflects on Bosnia's place in Europe.
U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with congressional leaders on June 18 at the White House to discuss the situation in Iraq, with senators divided on whether to work with Iran to resolve the crisis.
U.S. senators leaving a classified briefing on the deteriorating situation in Iraq held off on prescribing a specific action to stem the violence in Iraq, and said all options should be considered.
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has told a Congressional committee that the United States needed to act quickly to secure the release of Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl from five years of captivity by the Taliban.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for a "new course" on U.S.-Russian relations with a tougher line against President Vladimir Putin.
An ocean away, President Barack Obama just can't get away from Washington. On his trip to Poland, Belgium, and France, Obama has faced a flurry of questions on the release of U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.
Top Obama administration officials used the 10th anniversary of the Treasury Department's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence to tout sanctions as a tool of foreign policy amid the president's stated shift away from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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