Global stock markets surged Tuesday after Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed some of its troops are retreating from the Ukrainian border following military drills and returning to base. Dow futures jumped more than 300 points Tuesday morning on the news a day after markets flinched at the possibility of war. Commodities — which have been rising amid…

Ukraine warned its citizens to “expect the worst” after the country was hit by a massive cyberattack Friday. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said it’s too soon to tell who was behind the attack but added, “There is a long record of Russian cyber assaults against Ukraine in the past.” According to Ukraine’s Security Service, the…

One year from the day Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned, the United States announced additional sanctions against Russia. Friday’s announcement came from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the U.S. Department of State. OFAC sanctioned nine Russian individuals and two Russian entities involved in either Navalny’s…