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The letter is addressed to Craig Bouchard, CEO of the company that owns the mill, Braidy Industries. In the letter Wyden questions whether Braidy Industries established a relationship with the Russian aluminum company Rusal before U.S. sanctions against the company were removed in late January. Wyden’s letter references an August article in Time titled “A Kremlin-Linked Firm Invested Millions in Kentucky. Were They After More Than Money?” Rusal was formerly led by Russian oligarch Demetri Deripaska, who has been described as a close ally of Putin....

Russian journalist Roman Super, citing Kremlin sources, said on his Telegram channel that Moscow government employees are handing in their notices following the killing of Aleksey Martynov, the head of a department within the Moscow city government. Martynov, 28, was reportedly conscripted on September 23 as part of President Vladimir Putin’s mobilization decree, despite having no combat experience. He was killed on October 10 while fighting in Ukraine. “We have a mass exodus—employees leave, leaving notes in the nightstands....

Calls have increased recently for the U.S. and other nations to impose a new economic penalty for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by halting oil imports. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called the move the only “moral decision.” Earlier Monday, Newsweek reported that the Biden administration has looked into potentially increasing the amount of oil imported from other countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, if Russian oil is banned....

Arjen Robben has signed a one-year contract extension with Bayern Munich, according to Sport1. The Netherlands international had a deal which was set to run out at the end of the current campaign, prompting suggestions he could end up leaving the Bundesliga side. However, Bayern and Robben, 32, continually insisted there were no concerns over an imminent contract agreement and it seems now that one has been struck. The report states that the former Real Madrid and PSV man will commit to Bayern for another 12 months, with the new deal set to expire in the summer of 2018....

Tottenham are considering making a new and improved £25 million bid for Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha, according to the Daily Express. Mauricio Pochettino is a big fan of the 24-year-old and made three bids in the summer, all of which were turned down by the Eagles. However, Spurs are planning to up their offer when the window reopens in January with Pochettino keen to give his squad a boost....

In short, Studio 369 claims in the aforementioned lawsuit that the original version of Rune 2 was actively sabotaged by its previous developer and Bethesda, all to kill any competition that might edge in on Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls property. Even so, Studio 369 has re-built the game from what was left and are preparing to release it this week. RELATED: Starfield, The Elder Scrolls 6 Confirmed as Xbox Game Pass Day One Titles...

The controversial angle It has been a while since Lana and Bobby Lashley got together on the season premiere episode of Monday Night RAW. The storyline is still going strong, despite fans complaining about the same on social media. What’s interesting is the fact that although the angle is receiving fan backlash on Twitter and other social media handles, the videos are garnering millions of views on WWE’s official Youtube channel....

“Wherever you find this decadent decay, you’re going to find Democrats having run the operation, or the city, the state, whatever it is, the county for decades,” Limbaugh claimed during a Monday segment of Fox News morning show Fox & Friends. The right-wing host went on to say that Trump’s criticism of Cummings was “classic pushback.” “What he [Trump] is saying here is the absolute truth but it’s not supposed to be said about any place where the Democrats are in charge,” Limbaugh continued....

The Twitter account @tlatnews shared a clip of Crowe’s recent call-in interview with Australian radio station JOY 94.9 where he spilled the beans. Quite casually, Crowe mentioned that he will be heading over to the set and will finish his last day of filming on the movie in the role of Zeus. RELATED: 10 Marvel Comics To Read In Preparation For Thor: Love And Thunder This very straightforward confirmation comes after last month’s rumors of Crowe joining the Thor sequel after he was seen hanging out with several of the movie’s cast members....

Russell Martin and the rest of the Blue Jays’ lineup has had a rough start to the season. Wednesday, the catcher went deep twice, ending a 124 at-bat drought in the process, to help Toronto beat the Yankees 8-4. Michael Saunders also went deep for the Jays. MORE: The Mike Trout All-Stars: Best compensation picks The Blue Jays entered the game ranked 16th in the majors with 4.0 runs per game after leading all clubs last season in runs scored....

The Seahawks fell to a 17-12 loss to mark perhaps the worst result of the Pete Carroll era. The Giants went into the game 4-7, while the NFC West-leading Seahawks were looking to extend their advantage. But the Giants – using backup quarterback Colt McCoy – had other ideas against Wilson and the Seahawks, who were outscored 14-0 in the third quarter. Wilson struggled on home turf in Seattle, where he was sacked five times and finished 27-of-43 passing for 263 yards, one touchdown and one interception....

The Kremlin, it seems, doesn’t agree. Russian President Vladimir Putin told a group of history teachers last month that though Russia’s past had “problematic pages,” they are fewer and “not as terrible as those of some others.” Regardless, he said, it was the teacher’s duty to make schoolchildren “proud of their motherland.” To that end, the government has embarked on a campaign to change the way history is taught to Russian schoolchildren....

“He is a striking personality,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said of the 45th president now facing an unprecedented second impeachment trial over his alleged role in a deadly riot that stormed the U.S. Capitol Building last month. Speaking to YouTube channel Solovyov.Live, Lavrov reminisced about having met the former U.S. leader in Washington and Moscow. “I remember two meetings with him, when I was paying visits to Washington, and his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin which I attended,” Lavrov said....

On Monday, the governor of the Khabarovsk region in Eastern Russia announced that a regional military commissar had been fired due to recent recruitment issues. Governor Mikhail Degtyarev confirmed the news via a post on Telegram, explaining that commissar Yuri Laiko had been let go after thousands of ineligible residents had been sent draft notices, forcing the region to send home roughly half of its drafted men. “In 10 days, several thousand of our countrymen received summons and arrived at the military registration and enlistment offices,” Degtyarev said....

As the conclusion of the United Nations First Committee on Disarmament and International Security approached Friday, Moscow and Washington remained at odds over a range of issues, including efforts to find common ground on the use of information communication technologies (ICTs). Russian Department of International Information Security Acting Director Artur Lyukmanov told Newsweek how Moscow’s “disagreements with the U.S. administration lie, in particular, in the approaches to establishing a system of ensuring international information security....

Following successive warnings by the Biden administration claiming that Russia was preparing a potential invasion of Ukraine, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan issued the most serious comments yet on Friday, telling reporters “an invasion could begin at any time should Vladimir Putin decide to order it.” Sullivan reiterated recent calls for U.S. citizens to leave Ukraine in the next 24-48 hours, and allied countries including Latvia, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, South Korea and the United Kingdom issued similar directives....

In an operational update, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said the country’s defense forces shot down 51 of the 65 Kh-101 cruise missiles fired toward the capital city of Kyiv, as well as the Vinnytsia, Lviv and Zaporizhzhia regions. Newsweek has not been able to independently verify the information. “During the day, the Russian occupiers inflicted massive strikes on the objects of the energy infrastructure of Ukraine,” Ukraine said on Wednesday....

Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president, who now serves as deputy chairman of the country’s security council, outlined four ways that Russia could be “entitled to” use its nuclear arsenal—even against a nation that is only using conventional weapons. “Number one is the situation, when Russia is struck by a nuclear missile. The second case is any use of other nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies,” Medvedev said Saturday, according to The Guardian....

As the Saudis and Americans analyze how the Yemeni Houthis—or perhaps their Iranian backers—were able to get through the defenses, Russia is taking the opportunity to mock its U.S. rival by suggesting that America’s weaponry has fallen behind its own. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters Friday U.S. policy in the Middle East resembles more a “collapse” than a strategy. Saudi Arabia and several other regional allies use U....

Ukraine’s army has been conducting successful counteroffensives since early September, driving against Putin’s troops on two fronts, in the east of the country and in the southern region of Kherson. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has also vowed to retake the Crimea peninsula in Ukraine’s south, which was seized and illegally annexed by Putin’s forces in 2014. At the same time, Putin threatened last month that Russia was prepared to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia’s “territorial integrity....