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“I’ve pretty much given up on this country,” a friend texted me last week. The past several months—and it has, unbelievably, been only that long—have played out like the climax of a Roland Emmerich movie, as one American institution after another has crumbled in the face of a previously unimaginable assault. The nation’s top universities and its most powerful law …

In the fall of 2021, the director Julia Loktev traveled from her Brooklyn home to Moscow, with the intent to film some friends under pressure. That summer, the Russian government had cracked down on the remaining independent media in the country, designating outlets and journalists it found irksome as “foreign agents”. Loktev, who moved to the US from the Soviet …

Christina Harward, Jennie Olmsted, Anna Harvey, Justin Young, Karolina Hird, and Kateryna Stepanenko August 14, 2025, 8:45pm ET  Click here to see ISW’s interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report. Click here to see ISW’s interactive map of Ukraine’s offensive in Kursk Oblast. Click here to …

US President Donald Trump speaks during the unveiling of the Kennedy Center Honors nominees on August 13, 2025, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Mandel Ngan | Afp | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Wednesday shrugged off a question about a new report that Russia is at least partially responsible for hacking the electronic system that manages U.S. …

Trump on suspected Russian court hack: “Are you surprised?”  Axios Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System  The New York Times Trump shrugs off suspected Russian hack of U.S. federal courts: ‘Are you surprised?’  CNBC Hack of federal court filing system exploited security flaws known since 2020  Politico Safeguards being implemented after cyberattacks hit US court case management system, …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Kyiv, Ukraine  —  Small groups of Russian troops have pierced parts of Ukraine’s defenses in its eastern Donetsk region, according to local officials, as Russia appears to be making an 11th-hour dash to snatch as much territory as possible ahead of the planned meeting between President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump on Friday. …

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine could not agree to a Russian proposal to give up more of his country’s territory in exchange for a ceasefire because Moscow would use what it gained as a springboard to start a future war. The Ukrainian president said he did not believe that Donald Trump supported Russia’s demands, and he expressed hope the US …

Russian forces advance in Ukraine as Trump tempers outlook for Alaska summit  The Washington Post Russia tries to make sudden advance in Ukraine before Trump-Putin summit  Reuters Russian troops pierce Ukraine’s patchy defenses in Donetsk, days before Trump-Putin summit  CNN Russian breach sparks alarm on Ukraine’s eastern front  Financial Times Russian Military Makes Surprise Push in Ukraine Ahead of Trump Talks  The Wall Street Journal …

A Russian Orthodox Church in the Alaska village of Tatitlik. Alaska was a Russian colony from 1799 until it was sold to the U.S. in 1867 for $7.2 million. President Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are holding a summit in Alaska on Friday. David McNew/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption David McNew/Getty Images North America Russia lost …

Researchers at St. Petersburg State Technical University “leti” have developed a compact, fully domestic thermal imaging system that can monitor blood flow during the surgical removal of tumors. The technology, currently undergoing trials at the a.l. polenov russian scientific research neurosurgical institute, shows promise for helping surgeons assess tissue microcirculation before, during, and after operations — a critical factor in …