Cyber attacks on Ukraines power grid
Two cyber attacks in Ukraine show what capable hackers attacking critical infrastructure might be able to achieve. …read more Source: International Institute for Strategic...
Trump Team Gone Wild: Now UN Ambassador Threatens Russia!
What a week in US foreign policy! First President Trump approves a commando raid in Yemen that was a total fiasco, leaving one US soldier and scores of innocent women and children dead. Then Trump’s Iran-obsessed National Security Advisor, Gen. Michael Flynn, hijacks a White House Press conference to put Iran “on notice” over...
Ukraine to Hold NATO Referendum – President Poroshenko
February 2, 2017 …read more Source: Center on Global...
Fake news: the internet has turned an age-old problem into a new threat
South Africans queue to vote in the 2016 municipal elections. The governing ANC is accused of wanting to generate ‘fake news’ to influence voters. Reuters/Mike Hutchings The year 2016 will go down in history as the year in which fake news really took centre stage. It played a decisive role in major events such as the outcome of the US...
Russia Tightens Security on Belarus Border
Move is apparent retaliation for Lukashenka’s decision to end tourist visas for many Western travelers. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Fear of Russia Said Behind Scrubbed NATO-Ukraine Meeting
Nearly 20 troops and civilians reportedly killed since Sunday in combat zone near Donetsk. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Mafia methods used to get the ‘right’ court rulings in Russian-occupied Crimea
A moment of limited judicial independence in Russian-occupied Crimea on Jan 25 got forgotten amid the mounted offensive against lawyers defending political prisoners and imprisonment of human rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov. Any celebration over the refusal to extend the detention of Redvan Suleimanov would, in any case, have been premature...
Ukraine – Coup Government Tries To Sabotage US-Russia Rapprochement
Fighting in east Ukraine has restarted. This is an attempt by “deep state” forces to prevent any rapprochement between the US and Russia under the new Trump administration.The west-Ukrainian forces under command of the coup government of President Poroshenko started a large attack against the Russian supported Ukrainian self-defense...
Blow After Blow
Tabloid tells abusers how to exploit Russia’s decriminalization of domestic violence. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
