TV Rain, the last independent TV station in Russia, has found that businessman Pyotr Kolbin a former co-owner of the Gunvor, was a childhood friend of President Vladimir Putin.
Natalya Kasperskaya, a prominent Russian IT entrepreneur and president of the InfoWatch group of companies said at a business conference today that the government “really was talking about decrypting and analyzing all Internet traffic of Russian citizens” and this was a good thing. Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Fund exposed her own business interest in selling DPI (deep packet inspection) software to the government.
Two Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in Avdeyevka yesterday
Ukraine reports 29 ceasefire violations and one injured soldier over the last day
One Ukrainian soldier was killed and 6 wounded today in battle. The former premier of the self-declared “Lugansk People’s Republic” was reported to have committed suicide in custody.
President Vladimir Putin has made two major personnel shuffles and urged the “optimization” of the number of parties in Russia, indicating further consolidation over an already-docile parliament and intelligence service and preparation for his installation as president in 2018.
According to Kommersant, the International Committee of the Red Cross is proposing secure zones to protect vital water infrastructure.
The Ukrainian military reported 14 attacks yesterday.
Heavy casualties are reported in Aleppo and Idlib.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Russia was living ‘in a parallel universe’ as diplomatic niceties were dropped clash with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov over Syria policy at the UN.
