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Byline: David Kaminski-Morrow All the occupants of an Antonov An-24 have survived after the aircraft landed on an icy lake while stopping at the Siberian town of Zyryanka. The Polar [...]

In early December, it was reported that Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, a private defense contractor that among other services had $1 billion contract with the State Department to [...]

Byline: Ed Kilgore The morning after the president's (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/president-trump-fires-james-comey.html?mid=full-rss-dailyintelligencer) abrupt firing of FBI director James Comey, an account of what was really going on is beginning to emerge in which [...]

Just another day in Washington The FBI is investigating the sitting president's campaign team A 'BIG grey cloud' hangs over President Donald Trump and his administration, following public confirmation by [...]

It was a mystery that had puzzled historians for more than 60 years. Whatever became of the bodies of the murdered royal Romanov family after the Russian revolution of 1917? […]

Legislation has been drafted which would significantly limit the ability of former high-ranking communist officials from holding public office in Russia. The draft was proposed independently of Pres Yeltsin and the Ministry of Security, and would allow for the screening of public officials to determine whether or not they were functionaries in the old communist apparatus. Political parties of various affiliation are unhappy with the proposal, which is unlikely to pass due to other legislation which specifically protects the confidentiality of those who cooperated with the former regime.

There are two Trump-Russia 'conspiracies'. In one, the US President is bought or blackmailed by the Kremlin. In the other, the FBI and the intelligences agencies--the 'deep state'--commit a monstrous [...]

Washington DC The panhandlers outside the White House hold signs saying: 'Trump is President--saving to leave the country.' Those signs will have to be updated if Trump's enemies are right [...]

The 'most deadly adversaries of republican government,' wrote Alexander Hamilton, arise 'chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better [...]

MOSCOW AN INVESTIGATIVE journalist is threatened with a compulsory stay in a psychiatric hospital. A war correspondent is detained and then disappears. Whether by accident or design, Russia's battered press [...]

MOSCOW AND NEW YORK The latest money-laundering scandal in New York confirms that the evil of organised crime is woven into Russian life--and that it is starting to infect the [...]

Imagine if, a year ago, 80,000 votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin had gone the other way and Hillary Clinton had been elected president of the United States. Imagine if [...]

New York Although both guilt and innocence fascinate me, I'm not so sure that there is such a thing as redemption. I know, it sounds very unchristian, but there you [...]

James Comey, the director of the FBI, said that it was investigating alleged Russian interference in the US elections in 2016 and any links between Russia and 'individuals associated with [...]

Byline: BRYON MACWILLIAMS A rudimentary bomb damaged the main building of Russia's most highly regarded university late last month, in what authorities say was attempted arson. The explosion occurred around [...]

The European Commission is to investigate anti-dumping allegations against iron and steel pipe and tube exporters from Russia, Ukraine, Croatia and Romania. The inquiry was prompted by a complaint by [...]

The European Commission is due to open an investigation into claims that Russia is dumping silicon metal exports on the European Union market. The probe was prompted by a complaint [...]

u RUSSIA has been criticised in an independent report into the EU special food programme of the late 1990s. The scheme involved 1.7m tonnes of food, intended to avert mass […]

POLICY Beyond Baghdad While still wrangling over how to overthrow Iraq's Saddam Hussein, the Bush administration is already looking for other targets. President Bush has called for the ouster of [...]

Tuesday was a brutal day on Capitol Hill for the financial services industry, with even a banker-turned-senator second-guessing Congress' 1999 decision to remove the barriers between commercial and investment banking. [...]

As expected, the trade association, Catfish Farmers of America, and individual U.S. catfish processors have requested the International Trade Commission initiate an antidumping investigation so that the U.S. catfish industry [...]

Shrapnel damage to wreckage recovered from the Sibir Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 that crashed in the Black Sea on 4 October has strengthened evidence pointing to a stray Ukrainian missile being [...]

IRKUTSK, Russia-The Russian government has set up a commission to investigate the July 3 passenger plane crash that killed all of the flight's 145 passengers and crew. The Vladivostokavia airline's [...]

The old KGB spy was chain-smoking during our lunch at a Moscow restaurant a few years ago as he reminisced about his greatest intelligence coup. Boris A. Solomatin, gray-haired, hawk-faced [...]

Back in 1985, Viktor Cherkashin was a senior KGB officer at the Soviet Embassy in Washington. In the shadowy world of espionage, he had a good professional reputation--a spy's spy. [...]

Russian law-enforcement authorities have charged six Chechens -- five in absentia -- with the Moscow apartment bombings that killed 300. Was it an excuse for invasion? The timing of the [...]

Thieves have stolen radioactive material from another Russian submarine. Russian authorities announced the arrests of four conscripts and a retired navy officer who were charged with stealing radioactive, nuclear fuel-testing [...]

From the beginning, the Clinton administration was well Aware of the Russian government's involvement with Organized crime but punished those who dared point it out. We pretend to work and [...]

Moscow The Russian Foreign Minister says it's an American plot to keep Russia weak. The head of the KGB-successor agency offers that same conviction in a formal briefing to President [...]

Finally, the rampant corruption at the core of Russia's post-Communist transformation is front-page news. On August 19 the New York Times reported that up to $10 billion in tainted Russian [...]

Gela Grinyova is one of the unfortunate Russians who made the mistake of once having faith in her country's banking system. By the summer of 1998, the 32-year-old graphic artist [...]

Last week, as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund prepared for this month's joint annual meeting in Washington, fresh crises in Indonesia and Russia--two of the global institutions' [...]

David Kislin is mighty glad his father secured financing for their commodities trading business several years ago. Otherwise, the Russian immigrant doubts Sam Kislin would have been able to attract [...]

GENEVA - Swiss banking authorities said they are cooperating with a U.S. investigation of Bank of New York Co. for alleged money laundering tied to organized crime in Russia. 'We [...]

The president's long-time attorney, Marc Kasowitz, will likely be eased into a less prominent role within Trump's outside legal team, according to a person familiar with the president's thinking who requested anonymity to discuss Trump's plans. The White House is hopeful that Trump can shift attention to his domestic agenda upon his return. [Extracted from the article]

Perhaps it's impossible to smell corruption when one is surrounded by stench. That would explain why Russian President Boris Yeltsin waved off the travails of his troubled First Deputy Prime [...]

IN NORMAL financial markets only a con-man could offer a return of 3,000% a year; and only the most gullible of Aunt Agathas would believe him. Russia is far from [...]

THE NOVEMBER 27 TRAIN BOMBING that killed 26 and wounded nearly 100 in the resulting train wreck turned public attention once again to domestic terrorism, after several years of relative [...]

At a news conference in Moscow in late September, Gen. Dmitri Volkogonov, cochairman of the joint commission on American POWs and MIAs, revealed that two U.S. citizens had been executed, [...]

For readers who think that the US has a monopoly on poor energy policy, I offer up the latest goofy investigation into Russia's oil industry by that country's central government. [...]

BILL CLINTON WOULD LIKE A BIG VICtory in the war on crime, preferably before the November elections. What could be better than a secret operation right out of 'Mission: Impossible'--a [...]

The cover story is presented, which explores the current state of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) in the U.S. Particular focus is given to how the agency has been attacked by President Donald Trump since his election in 2016. Public failures of the agency are discussed as are their continued efforts to do good work, including their overlook of warnings regarding the Parkland, Florida, school killings, their delay in probing into the sexual molestation investigation of Olympic gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, and the arrest of the Golden State Killer. Various former FBI directors are discussed, including Robert Mueller and James Comey.

The article discusses the revival of Stalin-era repression in Russia's prison camps, drawing parallels between the current conditions and the infamous gulag system. It describes the harsh and dehumanizing treatment of political prisoners, such as journalist and politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for spreading "fake news" about the war in Ukraine. The article also highlights the power dynamics within the prison system, the fusion of the state and the underworld, and the political importance of instilling fear through the prison system. The author emphasizes that prison is deeply ingrained in Russian culture and folklore, and that it serves as a test of one's convictions and a source of moral authority for national politicians like Alexei Navalny. [Extracted from the article]

The first payments from the campaign and RNC have already been made to Trump lawyers John Dowd and Jay Sekulow, said one person. Trump donors may be surprised that money they gave the campaign could be used to defend the president in the Russia investigations, but it's likely a valid expense as long as it's related to campaign activities, election lawyers have said. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers information on the negative impacts of U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attacks on individuals on the U.S. politics. Topics discussed include the effects of Trump's behavior on several other politicians including Republican leader Mitch McConnell, the voting in the Senate on a healthcare legislation, and the vote cast by Senator John McCain. Also mentioned are several other Senators such as Susan Collins and Blake Farenthold.