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Nataliya Vasilyeva

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Kremlin: Trump’s wiretap claim purely a “domestic issue”

Nataliya Vasilyeva

Oligarchs unload Sochi Olympics assets to recoup investment

Nataliya Vasilyeva

US businessman jailed in Russia over broken window

James Ellingworth, Nataliya Vasilyeva

Ukrainian presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko speaks to supporters during a rally in Uman, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Presidential vote in Ukraine is scheduled for May 25. Ukraine is holding a presidential election Sunday but it has become downright dangerous for many in the east to be associated with the vote, since the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk declared independence last week. Ukrainian police and election officials accuse pro-Russia gunmen there of seizing election commission offices and threatening members in an effort to derail the presidential vote. ((AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky))

Pro-European billionaire wins Ukrainian presidential vote

Nataliya Vasilyeva, Peter Leonard

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks about the situation with Ukraine and Russia from the State Department in Washington, Thursday, April 24, 2014. Kerry is accusing Russia of failing to live up to commitments it made to ease the crisis in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (AP)

S&P cuts Russia’s credit rating

Nataliya Vasilyeva

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Russia’s Bolshoi Theater ballet troupe director attacked with acid

Nataliya Vasilyeva

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Russian court turns down Pussy Riot appeal

Nataliya Vasilyeva, Dmitry Vlasov

Seven members of Pussy Riot (Wikimedia)

Moscow court frees 1 of 3 Pussy Riot members

Nataliya Vasilyeva

Russia expels anti-Putin lawmaker

Nataliya Vasilyeva

Seven members of the band Pussy Riot (Wikipedia)

Pussy Riot members sentenced to two years in prison

Nataliya Vasilyeva

Environmentalists warn of risks of Arctic drilling

Nataliya Vasilyeva

Punk case: 3 year sentence?

Nataliya Vasilyeva

Putin says economic reform his top priority

Nataliya Vasilyeva

Boxes containing tomatoes stand behind a fence at the closed shop of a distributor at the central fruit and vegetable market in Berlin on Tuesday, afternoon, May 31, 2011. The selling of vegetables especially tomatoes, cucumbers and salad went down after the products are suspected to cause the E. coli outbreak in Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) (AP)

WHO: E. coli outbreak caused by new strain

Maria Cheng, Nataliya Vasilyeva

** CORRECTS BOYS AGE IN LIGHT OF SUBSEQUENT INFORMATION ** In this image taken from Rossia 1 television channel TV, 7-year-old adopted Russian boy Artyom Savelyev gets into a minivan outside a police department office in Moscow, Thursday, April 8, 2010. Russia should freeze all child adoptions with U.S. families, the country's foreign minister urged Friday after an American woman allegedly put her 8-year-old adopted Russian son on a one-way flight back to his homeland. Artyom Savelyev arrived in Moscow unaccompanied Thursday on a United Airlines flight from Washington, the Kremlin children's rights office said Friday April 9.(AP Photo/Rossia 1 Television Channel)** TV OUT ** (AP)

Law murky for mom who returned adopted Russian boy

Nataliya Vasilyeva, Kristin M. Hall

Top Russian official demands freeze on U.S. adoptions

Nataliya Vasilyeva, Kristin M. Hall