NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Sarah Lenti, a former National Security Council director, what U.S. engagement in Venezuela means to other global players like China and Russia.

Russia’s mysterious UVB-76 “Doomsday Radio” sparked global speculation after unexpectedly broadcasting Swan Lake, a symbol historically linked to political crises, amid heightened tensions following alleged threats involving President Putin.

The story of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been one of upset expectations and wild swings in performance. At the start of the war, most of NATO saw Russia as an unstoppable behemoth, poised to quickly defeat Ukraine. Instead, Russia’s forces were ...

For the better part of a decade, federal government investigators have been looking into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and now people are investigating the investigations. From the beginning, Donald Trump has called Russia's influence campaign ...

When President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin sit down in Alaska Friday for their high-stakes meeting about the war in Ukraine, the two leaders will bring differing ideas about ending the war that Russia began over three years ago. At the same ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday accused Ukraine of attacking a presidential residence in the Novgorod region overnight with 91 long-range attack drones and said Russia would retaliate.

Intensive negotiations are ongoing this week over another proposed peace plan for Ukraine. The 28-point plan leaked to the press before negotiations really got underway, causing outrage on both sides of the Atlantic over its seeming up-front concession of ...

United States forces boarded and seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday following a weeks-long chase on the high seas which has escalated tensions with Moscow and piled further pressure on its ally Venezuela.