Section: The Netherlands
Miss Me? Witty Hackers Put Sherlock Villain Moriarty on Kyiv Subway Screens
Moriarty, the villain from BBC’s Sherlock series surprised Kyiv metro riders on January 14. Image from Nash Kiev Facebook community. The subway passengers in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv got quite a shock on January 14 when images of Moriarty, the infamous villain from the Sherlock books and films, started popping up on the screens in the...
Triangulating Sources to Thin the Fog of War
Ghost village, by Christos Tsoumplekas. January 6, 2012. Ano Simi, Crete, Greece. CC 2.0. Edited by Kevin Rothrock. This article is part of a larger guidebook by RuNet Echo to help people learn how to conduct open-source research on the Russian Internet. Explore the complete guidebook at the special project page. The war in eastern Ukraine was...
Ukrainian Separatists Block 100+ News Websites in ‘Lugansk People’s Republic’
Users in occupied parts of Lugansk region report over a hundred Ukrainian news sites as blocked. Images mixed by Tetyana Lokot. More than one hundred Ukrainian news websites are currently inaccessible in the self-proclaimed “Lugansk People’s Republic,” a section of eastern Ukraine’s Lugansk region that has been occupied by a...
MH17 families call on PM Rutte to “get to the bottom” of attack
A group of 18 families, frustrated by the Netherlands’ slow pace at investigating the crash of flight MH17, are calling on Prime Minister Mark Rutte to pressure Russia, Ukraine, and the United States into releasing raw radar images taken on the day of the crash. They are angered that Russia vetoed a proposal last July to try suspects in the...
Dutch MPs angered by Juncker’s Ukraine referendum push; Wilders: “Intimidation
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker warns that a definite “no vote” in the Netherlands’ referendum about the association agreement with Ukraine in April will lead to a major crisis. PVV leader Geert Wilders calls this warning “intimidation”. D66 leader Alexander Pechtold sees it as a threat. The post...
‘No’ vote in Dutch Ukraine referendum could lead to crisis: Juncker
A no vote in the Dutch referendum on a key treaty between Ukraine and the EU could lead the way… …read more Source:...
Russian Hackers Behind Attack on Ukraine’s Power Grid, Researchers Claim
The hacking attack left thousands of citizens in western Ukraine without power in December. Image by Juanedc on Flickr, CC BY 2.0. The alleged cyber-attack that led to a temporary outage of the Ukrainian power grid was likely perpetuated by Russian hackers, according to US researchers. The cybersecurity research team iSIGHT Partners told...
RuNet Users Get Creative In Response to Ukrainian President’s Fake Magazine Cover
Shortly after New Year, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko tweeted a photo of a cover of The Economist magazine featuring his face among many other international leaders. The magazine cover turned out to be fake and resulted in a perfect storm of parodies and memes on the Russian-speaking Internet. On January 3, Poroshenko posted a photo of the...
MH17 Investigators: Ukraine, Russia refuse to provide radar images
According to the Dutch Safety Board, Russia and the Ukraine refuse to provide vital images of the MH17 disaster stating that they were “erased” or missing due to “maintenance” The post MH17 Investigators: Ukraine, Russia refuse to provide radar images appeared first on NL Times. …read more Source: NL...
The Bridge From Russia to Crimea Doesn’t Exist Yet, But It Already Has an Instagram Account
Most the cat will help occupy your time #WaitingfortheBridge from Russia to annexed Crimea. Image from @cat_the_most on Instagram. If you were ever at a loss as to what your social media strategy should include when you’re slowly building a very expensive bridge to illegally annexed territory, the answer is: cats. The so-called “Crimean...
