FIRSTPOST: United States President Donald Trump is reportedly seeking to lift some sanctions against Russia in what would be a major diplomatic and economic move towards more friendly ties with Moscow.

The first contacts with the new American administration give us some hope,” the Russian president said in televised comments on Thursday.

But the excesses surrounding Trump’s return to office are bringing to light a more pointed set of comparisons, as explained by Jonathan Rauch in The Atlantic: Today, it is clear that what has happened since January 20 is not just a change of administration but a change of regime — a change,

After secretly helping Trump's last three presidential campaigns, Russia is getting its money's worth from him.

NBC News' Keir Simmons reports from Moscow on overall sentiment in Russia and on his interview with the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman.

An impassioned defense of Donald Trump's conduct last Friday where he berated Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky as "disrespectful" and demanded a thank you was swiftly and brutally dismantled on CNN on Sunday morning.

Even before the new Trump administration began to erode U.S. influence on autocratic countries, a diverse array of experts started to rethink the future of global democracy.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blasted a New York Times reporter as a “left-wing stenographer” after he compared President Donald Trump to Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on press freedoms.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called American tariffs “very dumb” and said that U.S. President Donald Trump is appeasing Russia while launching a trade war against Canada. In a blunt news conference during his final days in office,