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Article snippet: National security adviser John Bolton is traveling to Russia for talks early next week with top Russian officials that are likely to cover a variety of high-priority issues for the administration. The trip is Bolton’s first to Moscow since he went to broker the details of the now infamous Helsinki summit between MORE and Russian President Vladimir Putin last July. The visit comes amid high tensions with Moscow on several fronts, including the conflict in Syria and the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Britain earlier this year. Bolton is expected in his meetings with Russian officials next week to further discussions on issues that Putin and Trump discussed in July, including Syria, where Moscow says it has delivered a S-300 missile defense system — in defiance of warnings from the Trump administration and Israel. The talks are also likely to cover Iran, efforts to denuclearize North Korea, Israeli security and nuclear arms treaties. And Bolton, long viewed as hawkish on Russia, plans to warn against interfering in U.S. elections, as he did most recently in meetings with his Russian counterpart in Geneva in August. U.S. officials have said they don’t see evidence of Russia waging as “robust” a campaign against the November midterms as was detected in the 2016 presidential election. But they add that Moscow’s influence operations have persisted. On Friday, the Justice Department charged a Russian woman in a conspiracy to interfere in next month’s mi... Link to the full article to read more