LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is meeting with Kremlin officials Tuesday in Moscow, but he won’t get any face time with Russia’s recalcitrant leader. A Kremlin spokesman confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has no plans to meet with Tillerson during his stay, Radio Free Europe reported. “We…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jacob Bojesson Russian President Vladimir Putin said the U.S. cruise missile strikes on a Syrian military field Thursday broke international law and severely damaged U.S.-Russia relations. The missile strike targeted the al-Shayrat military airfield where the chemical weapons attack the Pentagon believes President Bashar al-Assad carried out is thought to have…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti Russian President Vladimir Putin is jailing critics and protesters amid the biggest challenge to his power in years. Alexei Navalny was jailed and fined Monday for a period of fifteen days. Navalny’s arrest was accompanied by nearly 1,000 other arrests after protesters clashed with police. The gathering…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti FBI Director James Comey repeatedly referred to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s personal animus to Hillary Clinton as one of the major motivations in Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election during congressional testimony Tuesday. Comey described how Putin “hated Hillary Clinton so much” he developed a preference…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read More than 500 million users were affected by the Yahoo hack in 2014, but this massive heist wasn’t perpetrated by a team of cyber warriors. It was the brainchild of a couple Russian intelligence agents and their two hacker recruits. The hack was one of the largest data…