Congress is preparing a final round of sanctions to thwart Russia's efforts to build an undersea gas pipeline to Europe.
Joe Biden’s former White House stenographer said the vice president’s public speaking ability has deteriorated significantly since leaving office to the point where he’s “not the same Joe Biden.” 
A critic of President Vladimir Putin who fell into a coma in Russia and is being treated in Berlin was attacked with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent, a German government spokesman said on Wednesday. 
Upon Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s arrival in Germany for treatment, doctors confirmed the politician was poisoned, the New York Post reported Monday.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is suspected to have been poisoned Thursday, has been denied permission to transfer to a German hospital by his doctors in Russia, The New York Times reported Friday.
Russian politician and noted Putin critic Alexei Navalny was hospitalized in grave condition Thursday following a suspected poisoning, the New York Times reported.
By Andrew Osborn and Tom Balmforth
At least 50,000 Russians took to the streets of Khabarovsk in eastern Russia this weekend to oppose President Vladimir Putin, the New York Times reported Saturday.
The United States—joined by Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia—issued a statement condemning Russian president Vladimir Putin's attempt to "rewrite history" by asserting that the Soviet takeover of the Baltic states was consensual, Reuters reported Thursday. 
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) on Wednesday blamed Russia’s annexation of Crimea on Republicans, though the invasion took place on President Barack Obama's watch. 