America and the West’s dependency on undersea internet cables could be a strategic vulnerability. It is the consequence of both geography and the rise of the international digital economy. Russia, by comparison, doesn’t rely on the cables as much, and it has a substantial fleet of spy submarines designed to operate on them.

The GOP-led Senate intelligence committee concluded that the Kremlin launched an aggressive effort to meddle in the 2016 election on behalf of Donald Trump.

On Sunday morning, a leading Russian opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, was taken to the hospital after developing an allergic reaction that one of his doctors said could have been caused by an unknown chemical substance. The news caused instant alarm in a country with a long history of poisoning dissidents and defectors.

With less than four months to go until the presidential 2020 election, the US has decided to offer a $10 million bounty to anyone who can find foreign hackers trying to meddle in the election. The State Department on Wednesday announced its Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program is offering bounties on any information that could lead to the identification or location of: "any person who works with or for a foreign government for the purpose of interfering with US elections through certain illegal cyber activities."

Seventy-five years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima, one nuclear non-proliferation after the other is lapsing. A new arms race is already taking shape between Russia, the United States and China.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday the Russian Navy would be armed with hypersonic nuclear strike weapons and underwater nuclear drones, which the defence ministry said were in their final phase of testing.

The US and UK have accused Russia of testing an anti-satellite weapon in space, in the latest sign that a space-based arms race is heating up. General John Raymond, the head of the new US Space Force, said the alleged test of a projectile, conducted on 15 July, was “further evidence of Russia’s continuing efforts to develop and test space-based systems, and consistent with the Kremlin’s published military doctrine to employ weapons that hold US and allied space assets at risk.”

The UK took its "eye off the ball" in relation to Russia's attempts to meddle in British politics and deliberately "glossed over" allegations of a Kremlin-sponsored influence campaign during the Brexit referendum, an influential group of UK lawmakers say.

With the approaching of another presidential elections in US, the news outlets became increasingly worried of the anticipated Russian interference. Well, you may think you have already come up with your choice of the candidate and feel yourself confident in the atmosphere of another Russian information attack being immune to all this stuff.

Russia voted in favor of a national referendum that defines marriage exclusively as a union between a man and a woman.

Russians back constitutional amendments in referendum that will pave the way for Russian President Vladimir Putin to remain in power until 2036 as questions about its legitimacy linger.

More than 43,000 Russian schools will be equipped with facial recognition cameras ominously named “Orwell,” the Vedomosti business daily reported Tuesday. The state technology firm Rusnano’s Orwell platform is described as a image-recognition monitoring system that uses computer vision algorithms. It will be integrated with face recognition developed by NTechLab, a subsidiary of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s close associate Sergei Chemezov’s Rostec conglomerate.

Russia has lost its long-held monopoly as the only country able to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station following the flawless manned launch by US company SpaceX. The Russian space agency congratulated the United States and Mr Elon Musk's SpaceX on the first crewed flight ever by a private company, but experts said the launch should be a wake-up call for Roscosmos.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said there is "hard evidence" that she was targeted by Russian hackers in what she called "outrageous" spying attempts. The comments follow reports in German news outlet Der Spiegel that Russian military intelligence had obtained emails from her parliamentary office in 2015.

The motion to drop the Flynn case fits Trump’s fact-free declaration last summer that “I have an Article II, where I have to the right to do whatever I want as president.”

At a time when the United States and the Soviet Union were poised on the edge of nuclear annihilation, an improbable space mission proved that peace was possible. Join us for this special episode of the Supercluster podcast, as we reach back into space history to bring you the story of the first ever international cooperation in space: The Apollo Soyuz Test Project.

A newly released memo shows that Robert Mueller was given wide latitude to investigate Michael Flynn, whose prosecution the Justice Department is attempting to drop.

Then again, Russia says a lot of things.

Russia reported 9,623 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday, its highest daily rise since the start of the pandemic, bringing the total to 124,054, mostly in the capital Moscow, where the mayor threatened to cut the number of travel permits.

Russia plans to test swarms of ground robots later in 2020, betting that military robots will be faster, more discriminating in target selection and more accurate than human soldiers.