Weekend Edition Saturday Opinion: Alexei Navalny Fights For Freedom Of Expression in Putin's Russia NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the sentencing this week of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The Putin critic was poisoned last year, recovered in Germany, then arrested for violating parole.
Defying Putin, Russians Return To The Streets To Demand Alexei Navalny's Release For the second weekend in a row, people across Russia cried out for the release of the jailed Kremlin critic and opposition leader. And again they were met by a massive show of force.
Argentina Takes A Shot With Russia's Sputnik Vaccine The nation has been hard hit by the pandemic. The president vowed to start a vaccination campaign by the end of 2020. That did happen — but not exactly as they'd hoped.
U.S. Security Agencies: Massive Computer Hack Is 'Likely Russian' In its most detailed comment so far, the U.S. government says the breach of government and private company computer networks "will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate."
Putin Promotes Homegrown COVID-19 Vaccine, But Most Russians Are Skeptical The Russian leader has touted Sputnik V, as the vaccine is known, but more than half of Russians say they don't want to take it.
U.S. Cyber Agency: SolarWinds Attack Hitting Local Governments The malware-infused SolarWinds software update, blamed on Russian state actors, appears to have infected computers more broadly than previously acknowledged.
How A Cybersecurity Firm Uncovered The Massive Computer Hack FireEye was the first to sound the alarm bell on Dec. 8 after it noticed an anomaly. "Right now there's absolutely an escalation in cyberspace," says the company's CEO Kevin Mandia.
Putin And Biden Signal Chilly Relations To Come As the president-elect vows to get tough on Moscow, analysts say Russia's leader wants to show he'll take the fight to Washington — and his congratulations delay was just the latest sign.
Russia Gets Its Doping Ban Reduced But Will Miss Next 2 Olympics A panel from the Court of Arbitration for Sport found that Russia was not in compliance with international anti-doping rules. It is banned from using its flag, name and anthem for two years.
Arms Control: When Biden Takes Office, Clock Will Be Ticking To Save New START Treaty When President-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office, he'll have 16 days to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin to save the last arms control treaty limiting U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals.
