Section: New York Post (USA)
Manafort’s former biz pal an ‘upper-echelon’ Russian mobster: report
The feds have identified a former business associate of President Trump’s ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort as an “upper-echelon [associate] of Russian organized crime,” NBC News reported Wednesday. The revelation came in a 115-page filing as part of the Department of Justice’s case against Dmytro Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch who was...
House hits Russia with new sanctions, curbs Trump’s authority to ease penalties
The Republican-led House has decisively approved legislation that hits Russia with additional financial sanctions. The new penalties are aimed at rebuking Moscow for interfering in the 2016 presidential election and its military aggression in Ukraine and Syria. Lawmakers voted 419-3 to pass the bill, which prevents President Donald Trump from...
Kremlin warns US against supporting Ukraine with weapons
MOSCOW – Any U.S. decision to supply Ukraine with lethal weapons would set back peace efforts and escalate tensions, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. The Kremlin was referring to an interview given by U.S. special envoy on Ukraine, Kurt Volker, to Britain’s broadcaster BBC, in which he said that Washington was actively reviewing whether...
Congress agrees on Russia sanctions, setting up showdown with Trump
Congressional negotiators from both parties agreed Saturday on a bill to punish Moscow for meddling in the US presidential election and for its military aggression in Ukraine and Syria. The measure would handcuff President Trump’s ability to ease the sanctions on his own. Trump would have to explain to Congress why he wants to ease…...
Paul Manafort’s shady deal with Ukrainian party makes no sense
More evidence emerged Saturday of the shady operations of the Kremlin-linked Ukraine political party that hired Donald Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort as a consultant. Somehow, the money Manafort told US authorities he earned in 2012 and 2013 from Ukraine’s Party of Regions exceeded what the party said was its entire operating budget,...
Russia must ease tension with Ukraine: Tillerson
Russia must make good on reducing tensions in Ukraine if it wants to have a better relationship with the United States, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday. “It is necessary for Russia to take the first steps to de-escalate the situation in the eastern part of Ukraine, in particular by respecting the ceasefire,”… …read...
Ukraine eyes Russian security services in massive cyberattack
Ukraine said on Saturday that Russian security services were involved in a recent cyber attack on the country, with the aim of destroying important data and spreading panic. The SBU, Ukraine’s state security service, said the attack, which started in Ukraine and spread around the world on Tuesday, was by the same hackers who attacked…...
Paul Manafort registers as foreign agent with government
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has registered with the Justice Department as a foreign agent for political consulting work he did for a Ukrainian political party, acknowledging that he coached party members on how to interact with U.S. government officials. Manafort says in a Justice...
Europe hit by massive cyberattack
PARIS — A new and highly virulent outbreak of malicious data-scrambling software appears to be causing mass disruption across Europe, hitting Ukraine especially hard. Company and government officials reported serious intrusions at the Ukrainian power grid, banks and government offices, where one senior official posted a photo of a darkened...
Russia retaliates against latest round of US sanctions
Russia’s deputy foreign minister on Wednesday canceled planned talks with the US undersecretary of state in retaliation for a new round of US sanctions against his country. Team Trump said Tuesday that it had imposed sanctions on 38 Russian individuals and firms over Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Ministry on...
