putin sanctions
The U.S. just sanctioned Putin's chef again, plus a Chinese company
After appearing on a previous round of sanctions in March, Yevgeny Prigozhin had quipped that it just meant he’d have to eat less American fast food.
Trump’s big, new sanctions threat is more about deterring Congress than scaring Russia
“I doubt anyone on Capitol Hill is going to see this and say, ‘OK, we can take a step back. The president’s got this.’”
Russian markets are crashing after Trump’s Syria tweets and sanctions
"Being on the Russian stock market is like living on a volcano"
Somehow Russia is more of an outsider than North Korea at Winter Olympics
The switch from Olympic host to pariah-of-the-sports-world is a humiliating turnaround for a country that has long seen Olympic glory as a symbol of national power.
GOP senators are getting some Russia sanction ideas from anti-Putin YouTube videos
Turns out Alexei Navalny's YouTube channel has some powerful viewers in Washington: Republican senators.
The Vice News Guide to the World — Week of January 8
What’s next for Iran after nationwide protests; North Korea’s playing nice so it can go to the Olympics; Putin’s archrival is weaponizing YouTube against the Kremlin, etc.
