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The US is considering a move to deter Russia not seen since the Cold War
The Pentagon is poised to store battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons for as many as 5,000 troops in several Baltic and Eastern European countries to deter any possible further Russian aggression in Europe, the New York Times reported on Saturday. Citing U.S. and allied officials, the newspaper said that if approved the...
New deaths and diplomatic warfare rattle Ukraine truce
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s faltering peace deal suffered fresh setbacks on Saturday when Kiev reported the deaths of six soldiers and accused Moscow of abetting an attack on one of its Russian consulates.The latest fatalities in the twisting and hotly disputed zone separating Ukrainian forces from their pro-Russian foes in the separatist...
Baku games organisers ‘blame government for barring media’
BAKU (AFP) – The final say on whether foreign journalists attended the inaugural European Games in Baku lay with the Azerbaijan Government and not with the organisers, officials said on Saturday.The barring of a noted journalist from English newspaper ‘The Guardian’ — who was due to fly in on Friday — caused a furore...
Europe went after a ‘pipe dream’ to counter Russia — and it’s working
Europe has taken a swing at Russian gas. The EU has been buttering up Turkmenistan, which has the fourth-largest known gas reserves, and Azerbaijan over the last year with the aim of shifting away from Russian gas. And it looks like the efforts have paid off. “Europe expects supplies of Turkmen gas to begin by 2019,” Maros Sefcovic,...
10 things in tech you need to know today (AAPL, MSFT, GOOG)
Good morning! Here’s the tech news you need to know today. 1. Kaspersky labs admits it was hacked. Attackers used malware related to the Stuxnet attack that targeted states like Iran, India, France, and the Ukraine in 2011 to try and learn more about the firm’s services. Kaspersky says nothing was compromised. 2. Apple’s latest...
Putin: ‘Clearly God has built my life in a way that I won’t have anything to regret’
Vladimir Putin, leader of Russia, doesn’t feel the need to repent. When asked about any regrets he had, Putin told the Italian newspaper Corriere de Sera: “I will be quite frank with you. I cannot recollect anything of the kind. “Clearly God has built my life in a way that I won’t have anything to regret.” Currently, Putin...
One of the biggest security firms in the world admits it was hacked
Russia-based Kaspersky Lab, one of the biggest and most well-known cybersecurity research firms in the world, has admitted to being hacked. In a blog post published earlier today, Kaspersky Lab CEO and founder Eugene Kaspersky wrote, “We discovered an advanced attack on our own internal networks. It was complex, stealthy, it exploded...
Less than half of US Democrats and Europeans would want to defend a NATO state attacked by Russia
The Pew Research Centre has just released a monster piece of research on public attitudes to NATO, Ukraine and Russia. Fears of Russian expansion have been making daily headlines for more than a year, since the beginning of Moscow’s annexation of eastern Ukraine. But those concerns don’t seem to be translating into support for much...
Isolated Putin seeks sympathetic hearing in Italy
Rome (AFP) – Vladimir Putin makes a rare international outing on Wednesday with a high-profile visit to Italy and the Vatican two days after the G7 threatened him with tougher sanctions over Ukraine.The Russian president is due in Milan to visit his country’s pavilion at the World Expo and will travel on to Rome, where an audience...
The pro-Russia separatist regions just named Crimea as a part of Ukraine
The pro-Russia separatist regions of Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) just named Crimea as a part of Ukraine in the draft amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine. That doesn’t jibe with claims made by their backers in Moscow. From the document (translated into English by Business Insider):...
