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Bloggers use open sources to pinpoint suspected Russian cluster bomb use in Syria
Thomson ReutersRussian open-source bloggers say they have documented more evidence that Russia is using cluster bombs in its air campaign supporting Syria’s embattled regime. The findings by Ruslan Leviev and the Conflict Intelligence Team, which has uncovered other secretive Russian military activity both in Syria and Ukraine in the past,...
The 10 things in advertising you need to know today (TWTR, KO, PUB, WPPGY)
Coca-ColaGood morning. Here’s everything you need to know in the world of advertising today. 1. Coca-Cola has managed to upset both Russia and Ukraine with a social media blunder. The company decided to first include an image of the disputed territory of Crimea in its New Year message posted to social network VK, before then erasing it. 2....
Coca-Cola has managed to upset both Russia and Ukraine with a social media blunder
Coca-ColaAn apparently innocuous New Year message issued by Coca-Cola on social media has left consumers in Ukraine and Russia seeing red, following the decision to first include an image of the disputed territory of Crimea, before then erasing it. Russia annexed the peninsula in March 2014 at the height of a proxy war with the Ukraine, a move...
4 things to expect from Europe in 2016
GettyIn addition to the continuation of current crises, Europe will face new matters of contention in 2016. Nationalism and fragmentation within the EU will keep growing, including on the Brexit issue. When we look back at the major challenges that Europe has faced in 2015, it seems that a few of these have moved into the frozen category. The...
The Russian security chief who just died helped transform one of the country’s most feared intelligence agencies
KremlinOne of the most powerful intelligence figures in Russia died unexpectedly, according to a Russian government announcement on January 4th. Igor Sergun, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Russia’s General Staff (GRU), died of unspecified causes at the age of 58, The Wall Street Journal reports, although there is no...
China just landed its first plane on an airstrip in the disputed South China Sea
Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative/CSISVietnam formally accused China of violating its sovereignty and a recent confidence-building pact on Saturday by landing a plane on an airstrip Beijing has built on an artificial island in a contested part of the South China Sea. Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh said the airfield, had been...
Head of Putin’s military intelligence unexpectedly dies
Kremlinn Monday, news broke about the death of 58-year-old Colonel General Igor Sergun on January 3rd, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff, better known as the GRU. No cause of death has yet been announced, but there has been no suggestion of anything shady or strange about his demise, even at this relatively young age...
Russia has a ‘plan B’ for Syria that would allow it to ‘redefine the international order’
Mandel Ngan/Pool/Reuters Russia’s pattern of airstrikes in Syria indicate that it is preparing a “plan B” should the regime fail to restore a central Syrian state and be forced to retreat to a fragment of government-held territory along the Mediterranean. “A second option [for Russia] is to fall back to the defensible...
Putin names US as a threat to national security for the first time
Thomson ReutersMOSCOW (Reuters) – A new appraisal names the United States as one of the threats to Russia’s national security for the first time, a sign of how relations with the west have deteriorated in recent years. The document, “About the Strategy of National Security of Russian Federation”, was signed by President...
One of the world’s major oil producers could face a huge problem in 2016
Tife Owolabi/ReutersThis coming year is shaping up to be a difficult one for economies that are disproportionately dependent on oil. This is especially true for Nigeria, where there’s a possibility of renewed conflict in the country’s oil-producing Niger Delta region, according to SBM Intelligence’s recently published...
