EVENTS

Battery of self-propelled howitzers "Msta-s" are going to a firing position on a firing ground near Moscow Holoven'ky

US Special Ops chief General Raymond Thomas confirms that the CIA ended support for Syrian rebels and says the U.S. decision to halt the CIA program equipping and training certain rebel groups fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was not done as a concession to Assad's ally Russia.

Mueller asks White House to preserve all documents related to June 2016 meeting with Russian lawyer

Putin doesn't rule out running in 2018 presidential race

Putin: Oliver Stone is a comfortable conversationalist.

Putin: War isn't just blood and death, it's also hard work.

Russian court docs seen by @Reuters show Moscow lawyer in Trump Jr. mtg had Russian spy agency as client

Putin says his nickname in spy school was Platov, but he doesn't have one on the internet

Trump and Putin "might have met even much more than just three times," says Lavrov.

Police came to Navalny's Irkutsk HQ for a search after a complaint from the mayor's office about campaigning.

Moldova's Parliament adopted on Friday, July 21, statement on the withdrawal of Russian troops from Transnistria

The state Duma adopted a bill on the regulation of messengers and banning VPN in the third reading

Following the Crimea delivery controversy, @Siemens stopped sales of its turbines to Russian state-owned firms

Has Russia pursued any sort of serious strategy to counter IS in Syria? "No", says .@CIA's Pompeo, "Only the most minimal" of efforts.

Just spotted Jared Kushner exiting @LindseyGrahamSC's office. Asked whether it was appropriate to attend Russia mtg last summer, no answer.

Strelkov is asked if things are better in Ukraine as result of his actions: “nothing will get better until reunification of Russian nation”

Question to Girkin: Who funded your military activity in Donbass? Girkin: "My response would deprive me of my officer's honor"

Russia says in talks with U.S. to create cyber security working group: RIA

Putin to Alexeyeva: You've done the most important thing in life. Solzhenitsyn talked about protecitng people, he did it his way, you yours.

Paul Manafort was in debt to pro-Russia interests before joining the Trump campaign, Cyprus records show

A mine collapsed in Komi.

"We weren't following him around with a stopwatch," says Sanders of Trump-Putin dinner chat, but it was brief: "certainly less than an hour"

“We weren’t following him around with a stopwatch…but it certainly wasn’t an hour,” says @SHSanders45 on length of @POTUS-Putin dinner chat.

@SHSanders45 says not aware subject of US stopping arming of anti-Assad rebels (allied with Russia) came up during Putin dinner chat.

Sanders says media has "Russia fever" and is creating a story about the Trump/Putin conversation "that simply didn't exist."

@SHSanders45: “This was a social dinner and that was the nature of the evening.”

Q: @POTUS confident Kremlin translator was accurate? @SHSanders45: “I believe so.”

Trump is ending the CIA covert mission to arm syrian rebels against Assad.

Russian lawyer who met with Trump Jr. "happy" to testify about the meeting before the Senate

The Kremlin is behind the latest announcement from Russia occupied territory in East Ukraine - former Russian Prime Minister.