“Moscow,Russia” on The Daily Caller

She was lurking in the Ivy, ready to pounce. (more)

The Washington Post today reports on the breaking news that the FBI has broken up a Russian spy ring in the U.S.: (more)

(Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday the U.S. arrests of suspects in an alleged Russian spy ring would not hurt improving relations with Washington, softening its tone after an initial angry response. (more)

She came from Russia, with love. (more)

Tim Starks recently penned a piece for Congressional Quarterly titled “Republicans Take Pause at START Accord’s Missile Defense Implications.” His bottom line: “No matter how often Democrats or Obama administration witnesses try to sway them, Republicans continue to express doubts about whether a new arms treaty would constrain U.S. missile defense plans.” (more)

Our lives continue to be defined by the Cold War, even as the phrase itself has devolved into an artifact of language. (more)

MOSCOW — Government forces in Kyrgyzstan clashed with minority Uzbeks near the southern city of Osh on Monday, killing two people and wounding more than 20 others as the authorities sought to take control of barricaded ethnic Uzbek enclaves across the region. (more)

MORAG, Poland (AP) — Polish and U.S. officials hailed the arrival in Poland of an American Patriot missile battery, saying Wednesday that the hardware and soldiers close to the Russian border enhance Polish security but pose no threat to Russia. (more)

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top nuclear official says that work on Iran’s first nuclear plant is on schedule and the reactor will start operation by August. (more)

MOSCOW (Reuters) – More than half of Russians think bribing officials is the best way to “solve problems,” according to a new poll. (more)

Security services killed three people involved in the suicide attacks on the Moscow metro in March after they refused to surrender, Russia’s security chief said on Thursday. (more)

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian businessman who set up a museum dedicated to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was electrocuted and bludgeoned to death on Friday, media reported. (more)

MOSCOW — Police say two-time Olympic rhythmic gymnastics champion Natalia Lavrova of Russia has been killed in a car accident. (more)

It has been nearly a decade since President George W. Bush chose arrogance over humility as the basis of American foreign policy. The intervening years have not been good for the United States or the Republican Party. As the GOP seeks to take back the White House it needs to conduct a serious foreign policy debate. Republicans should start by listening to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). (more)

Early morning on March 29, 2010, two female suicide bombers detonated the explosive devices they were carrying on subway trains in Moscow. Initial reports indicate that 37 individuals were killed and that 73 were injured. These attacks, likely the work of Chechen separatists, produced panic amongst passengers, disrupted service on Moscow’s massive subway system and brought a flood of police and special forces personnel out into the streets of the city. (more)

World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow. (more)

A leading Russian federal judge has been shot dead as he was leaving his apartment building in central Moscow, court officials have said. (more)

I wasn’t going to write about President Obama’s new nuclear weapons strategy–a central tenet of which is that the U.S. would not authorize a nuclear strike against a nonnuclear country in retaliation for a chemical or biological attack if that country is in compliance with its nonproliferation obligations under the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). (more)

The lapdog congress, tailor to our imperial president, gave him a garment made of health care. Unfortunately, the expensive suit may come apart at the seams and he finds himself needful of new clothing material. So he decided foreign affairs are just the stuff. As a result, and because President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton are leaders and statesmen in name only, American foreign policy is now in shambles on every continent. Why do the incompetents persist? (more)