Section: Newsweek (USA)
U.S. Says Cyber Attack Caused Ukraine Power Outage
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A December power outage in Ukraine affecting 225,000 customers was the result of a cyber attack, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Thursday, marking the first time the U.S. government officially recognized the blackout as caused by a malicious hack. Security experts had already widely concluded that the...
Moscow Has The Third Largest Number of Billionaires Globally
Despite Russia’s ongoing financial crisis, Moscow is third in the world by the number of billionaire residents, independent thinktank the Hurun Institute reports. The Hurun institute, which annually ranks China and other countries’ most wealthy entrepreneurs, reports that in 2015 only Beijing and New York have more billionaires than...
Putin and Trump Are ‘Dangerous Clowns,’ Says Pussy Riot Member
Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova has branded Russian President Vladimir Putin and aspiring U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump “dangerous clowns” who have much in common. Putin first became president over 15 years ago, with relatively little experience in politics, having mainly worked for Moscow’s security services prior to the...
Belarus Capital Minsk is The Worst European City to Live In
The Belarusian capital of Minsk is Europe’s worst city to live in, according to analytics firm Mercer who annually compare quality of life indexes across the world. Seven out of the top 10 cities to live in were European, although all of them are firmly in Western Europe. Starting with Vienna, all of Europe’s top cities are either in...
Ukraine’s President Poroshenko Warns of Return to Full-Scale War
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has warned of the danger of the recent flare up of violence in eastern Ukraine devolving into full-scale conflict, news site Ukrainskaya Pravda reports. Speaking at an event at the Ivan Chernyakhovsky National Defense University on Tuesday, Poroshenko addressed the state of the ceasefire, signed by...
Ukrainian Forces Report Surge in Pro-Russian Rebel Shelling
Ukraine’s forces stationed in the east have reported shelling from pro-Russian rebels, in a massive surge in ceasefire violations since Tuesday morning. The Anti-Terrorist Operations command (ATO), the press center for forces stationed in the war-torn Donetsk and Luhansk regions, reported on Wednesday morning that over the last day it had...
Who Might Succeed Yatsenyuk To Be the Next Ukrainian Prime Minister?
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk may have survived a move to sack him last week, but there are still many reasons to believe that his days in power are numbered. After a failed parliamentary vote of no confidence, Yatsenyuk lost three of the four partners from his pro-European coalition whose backing put him in government in 2014. To...
Putin Ally Kadyrov Says He’s More of a Democrat Than Western Leaders
Chechen leader and Kremlin-ally Ramzan Kadyrov has dismissed claims that he is undemocratic and declared himself more worthy of awards than Western leaders. In a long interview with Russian radio station RSN, Kadyrov gave his thoughts on his mentor President Vladimir Putin, the Russian opposition and current affairs from around the world. When...
Russian Vandals Stop Maidan Massacre Commemoration in St. Petersburg
Vandals forced Russian liberals to abandon a memorial service for those killed in Ukraine’s pro-European Maidan revolution on the second anniversary of the protests, Radio Free Europe reports. Demonstrations against the pro-Russian government in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities resulted in 130 deaths. The violence peaked on February 20, when...
Why are Russian Banks in Ukraine Being Vandalized and Torched?
Over the weekend no fewer than six Russian banks across Ukraine were torched or vandalized by mystery attackers, on the eve of the two-year anniversary of Kiev’s Maidan protests. Molotov cocktails were hurled at three different banks in the western city of Lviv during the early hours of Monday morning, according to a report by the...
