Archives: January 2017

The shelling follows a day of intense fighting across the front line that left two Ukrainian soldiers dead.

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The independent news site Novaya Gazeta reports that an FSB agent and a Kaspirsky Laboratory cybersecurity specialist were arrested for passing information to American intelligence about attempts to hack elections in Arizona and Illinois.

Polozov is defending Ilmi Umerov and Akhtem Chiygoz.

A top manager of the Kaspersky Laboratory and an officer of the Federal Security Service’s (FSB) Center for Information were arrested and charged with treason, possibly for receiving payment from a middleman related to a foreign organization.

Two Ukrainian soldiers have been wounded and the ceasefire has reportedly been broken 51 times.

Pyotr Tolstoy, great grand-son of writer Leo Tolstoy and deputy speaker of parliament, blames the Jews for the campaign to prevent the return of St. Isaac’s Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church.

AP reported today that Russia had issued a statement that “its warplanes have flown the first combat mission in Syria with U.S.-led coalition aircraft.”

Five Ukrainian soldiers have been wounded in the last 2 days. Ukrainian intelligence foiled an assassination attempt on MP Anton Gerashchenko.

Moscow officials and commentators have treated Barack Obama with “unconcealed hatred” at the end of his presidency, blaming him for the absence of an agreement between Washington and Moscow and forgetting how they welcomed him eight years ago and how he pursued “the reset”.