Politico: “Trump was apoplectic after a pair of weekend media interviews by his personal lawyer, in which Giuliani said that the president had been involved in discussions to build a Trump Tower Moscow through the end of the 2016 campaign —...
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) claimed Rudy Giuliani‘s representation of Donald Trump amid the Russia probe may constitute “ample grounds for legal malpractice.”
“I have to say, if any other lawyer...
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BuzzFeed isn’t backing down on its claims that Donald Trump directed his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about when talks on building Trump Tower Moscow ended ‒ despite the fact that the Special Counsel’s Office itself denied...
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A judge in Russia Tuesday denied bail for Paul Whelan, the American accused of espionage. In court, he was watched by a masked guard and could only speak to his lawyer through a small slot in a prisoner's cage. Elizabeth Palmer reports.
Paul Whelan allegedly was given "state secrets" from a source in Russia. If so, that fits a familiar pattern.
Rudy Giuliani‘s whirlwind of interviews continued today. He spoke to CNN’s Dana Bash to clear a few things up after his interview with The New Yorker yesterday.
Bash said Giuliani again clarified his comments about the Trump Tower Moscow...
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When a Russian citizen handed him a memory stick, Paul Whelan thought it contained travel snapshots, his lawyer told reporters. Whelan was denied bail at his first court appearance.(Image credit: Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Tehran condemns the German ban for Iranian private airline Mahan Air to conduct flights to the country as groundless and inconsistent with the spirit of the Iranian-German relations, the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry,...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has to become a mediator in EU-facilitated talks between Serbia and Kosovo if Washington decides to participate in the negotiation process, Serbian Ambassador to Russia Slavenko Terzic said on Tuesday.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia and Japan have confirmed their interest in signing a peace treaty, hard work remains to be done, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday after talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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“The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday let an unidentified foreign government-owned company appeal under seal a grand jury subpoena possibly related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s role in the 2016 election, and the...
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Michael Isikoff is tired of waiting.
On Monday's All In with Chris Hayes, the author of "Russian Roulette" argued that despite an ongoing investigation, it was time for Congress to hold public hearings on Trump Russia:
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A Russian judge refused to release American Paul Whelan on bail, ruling his arrest last month in a Moscow hotel room on charges of spying was legal.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday let an unidentified foreign government-owned company appeal under seal a grand jury subpoena possibly related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s role in the 2016 election, and the firm said...
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Wess Mitchell, the State Department's top diplomat for European affairs, is stepping down from the position, a person familiar with the issue confirmed to POLITICO. Mitchell's portfolio at the State Department includes Russia, a sensitive issue...
Rudy Giuliani, one of President Trump’s lawyers, insisted during an interview with the New Yorker on Monday that the reporting over the weekend about a potential Trump Tower deal in Moscow showed his client to be one of the most “unfairly...
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Russia has charged Patrick Whelan, a former U.S. Marine with espionage.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Vladimir Zherebenkov, attorney for espionage suspect Paul Whelan, told Sputnik on Monday that his client was found to be in possession of classified documents at the time he was detained last month in Moscow.
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Two crew members of a Tu-22M3 have died and two more were injured during a hard landing in Russia's Murmansk region, the Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – An explosion has occurred in al-Hamam Square in the western Syrian city of Latakia, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.
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