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David R. Sands

David R. Sands

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David R. Sands covered numerous beats, including international trade, banking, politics and Capitol Hill, and spent eight years on the foreign desk as senior diplomatic correspondent. He has authored The Times' weekly chess column since 1993.

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In this image provided by NBC News, Keir Simmons, left, speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview aired on Monday, June 14, 2021, two days before the Russian leader is to meet U.S. President Joe Biden in Geneva. Putin has sharply dismissed allegations that his country is carrying out cyberattacks against the United States as baseless. (NBC News via AP)

Putin praises Trump, presses Biden for ‘stability’ ahead of summit

Former President Donald Trump is an "extraordinary, talented individual," President Biden is a "career man" in government, and Russia would appreciate a little more "stability and predictability" in U.S. foreign policy, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his first interview with an American broadcast outlet in three years.

June 14, 2021
In this file photo, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega speaks next to first lady and Vice President Rosario Murillo during the inauguration ceremony of a highway overpass in Managua, Nicaragua. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga, File)

Ortega regime steps up crackdown of rivals ahead of Nicaragua vote

The government of leftist President Daniel Ortega, brushing off criticism from the U.S. and human rights groups, expanded its intimidation campaign against regime opponents ahead of November's elections, arresting a prominent opposition figure and surrounding the home of another government critic Sunday.

June 13, 2021
President Joe Biden walks with national security adviser Jake Sullivan, right, and members of the Secret Service as he arrives for the final session of the G-7 summit in Carbis Bay, England, Sunday, June 13, 2021. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Biden hails ‘extraordinarily productive’ G-7 summit

President Biden claimed breakthroughs on a number of fronts as he wrapped up his first Group of Seven summit as president on Britain's Cornish seacoast, a gathering marked by normalcy and lower-volume diplomacy after the tumultuous Trump years.

June 13, 2021
Hong Kong police show their new goose step marching style on the National Security Education Day at a police school in Hong Kong Thursday, April 15, 2021. Authorities in Hong Kong are marking the day with a police college open house, where police personnel demonstrated the Chinese military's "goose step" march, replacing British-style foot drills. The "goose step" march is one in which troops swing their legs off the ground in unison, keeping each leg straight. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

State Department slams latest Chinese crackdown on Hong Kong rights

Members of the overwhelmingly pro-Beijing Hong Kong Legislative Council on Thursday approved sweeping electoral measures giving the city's security department new powers to vet candidates for public office and established a new panel to ensure that those who run are sufficiently "patriotic."

May 27, 2021
Lasker-Capablanca after 16...Nbd5.

A stormy title match — away from the chessboard — 100 years ago

For many, the 1972 Fischer-Spassky championship match is at least as famous for the tempestuous dramas away from the board -- the challenger's diva-like near-no show, the last-minute Reykjavik arrival, the Game 2 forfeit, the soap opera over television cameras -- as for the games themselves.

May 25, 2021
Tugs pull the Russian pipe-laying vessel "Fortuna" out of the harbor and into the Baltic Sea at the port of Wismar, Germany, Thursday, Jan 14, 2021. The special vessel is being used for construction work on the German-Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea. ( Jens Buettner/dpa via AP) ** FILE **

Russia fetes, Ukraine frets over Biden pipeline ploy

Top Russian officials said the relatively amicable talks this week between the U.S. and Russian top diplomats and the Biden administration's decision not to try to block a controversial Russia-German energy pipeline are hopeful signs that bilateral ties may improve soon.

May 20, 2021