Spreading false reports to sow confusion and undermine its adversaries are tactics that Moscow has used for years and refined with the advent of social media

Defending ban on news outlets Russia Today, Sputnik, top diplomat Borrell calls them 'weapons' wielded by Moscow; Latvian MEP accuses Putin of trying to 'poison, divide societies'

Milley is 1st Pentagon official to confirm nature of Beijing test of nuclear-capable hypersonic weapon that orbited Earth then reentered atmosphere

Anatoliy Daron, who recently died in US at 94, fled two Nazi massacres, lost his job in the Doctors' Plot, then, while living in a cramped shared flat, invented Sputnik's engine

Riyad al-Malki tells Russian news outlet Palestinians will reject any peace proposal that 'does not acknowledge the State of Palestine's independence'