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Woody Allen’s appearance at a Russian film festival has garnered the condemnation of Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry, who called the filmmakers participation “a disgrace and an insult” to the victims of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As The Associated Press reports, Allen made a video appearance at the Moscow International Film Week …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov tried to defend his country’s assault on Ukraine under sharp questioning from Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker, with Welker eventually asking, “Either the Russian military has terrible aim or you are targeting civilians. Which is it?” “This week, Russia escalated its attacks in Ukraine,” …

It has been one of the most tumultuous and significant weeks in the global political battle over the war in Ukraine. It began last Friday, with the cringe-worthy summit in Alaska between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, followed just three days later by seven of Europe’s most …

Secretary of State Marco Rubio scrambled to justify the administration’s lack of progress toward a Ukraine–Russia ceasefire during Donald Trump‘s recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. In a round of interviews on four Sunday news programs, Rubio, who used to be strongly anti-Putin, struggled to defend the …

Guests at a hotel in Alaska found eight pages of documents from President Donald Trump’s meetings Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a printer, NPR reported Saturday. The documents show the schedule of the summit with times and locations. They also show the lunch menu, the lunch seating chart, …

Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday to discuss terms for a potential end to Russia’s war against Ukraine — without the involvement of Ukraine.During a joint news conference with Putin following the summit talk, Trump told reporters that despite “an extremely productive meeting,” …

Filmmaker Julia Loktev’s voice is the first we hear in her epic new documentary. Over a nighttime shot of Moscow, she warns, “The world you’re about to see no longer exists. None of us knew what was about to happen.” For the next five-and-a-half hours, My Undesirable Friends: Part I …

The end to the Russia-Ukraine war DonaldTrump promised to secure on the first day of his presidency is nowhere in sight. On Tuesday, during a televised meeting of his Cabinet, Trump admitted that attempts to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin have produced little in the way of a truce, …

President Donald Trump slammed Vladimir Putin in a Truth Social post on Tuesday, writing that the Russian president is “playing with fire” as Moscow continues its war against Ukraine. Trump has had a hard time making good on his campaign promise to broker a ceasefire between the two nations, and …

Pete Hegseth has already displayed a predictable lack of competence in his role as defense secretary, but it’s not just a sloppy use of Signal chats that has forced the White House to do damage control on his behalf. According to a Tuesday report from Reuters, early in his tenure …