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    Russia-NATO Cyber War: Battlefield Tensions In Ukraine And Syria Are Contributing To Increased High-Tech Fighting
    Oct15

    Russia-NATO Cyber War: Battlefield Tensions In Ukraine And Syria Are Contributing To Increased High-Tech Fighting

    Thursday, October 15 , 2015 - 18:45 (EEST) Section: International Business Times (USA)

    While NATO forces and the Russian military reluctantly operate side-by-side in Syria — adding to the tensions built over Moscow’s involvement in the east Ukraine war — a far quieter battle between the two rivals has been unfolding over the Internet. While Russian hackers have long been a problem for the U.S. …read more...

    Putin Begins Propaganda Blitz to Sell his Syrian Bombing Campaign
    Oct15

    Putin Begins Propaganda Blitz to Sell his Syrian Bombing Campaign

    Thursday, October 15 , 2015 - 18:30 (EEST) Section: The Daily Signal (USA)

    The Russian government has launched an all-out media campaign to sell its involvement in Syria to the Russian people. On all official television channels (which are pretty much the only ones in Russia that count) viewers have been subjected to a non-stop barrage of the Russian bombing campaign over the past two weeks. Bombers are seen flying...

    Pre-aliyah conversion project launched in Ukraine
    Oct15

    Pre-aliyah conversion project launched in Ukraine

    Thursday, October 15 , 2015 - 18:30 (EEST) Section: Jewish Telegraphic Agency (USA)

    (JTA) — A program to help prospective immigrants begin converting to Judaism before they immigrate to Israel was launched in Ukraine. The program, titled “Maslul,” Hebrew for path or course, was launched Thursday at the Galitska Synagogue in Kiev with funding from the Harry A. Triguboff Foundation. Among those attending the launch was the...

    Is Putin Really as Foolish as We Are?
    Oct15

    Is Putin Really as Foolish as We Are?

    Thursday, October 15 , 2015 - 16:30 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    Nixon lied. Surely this is not a shocker. But what’s interesting about the latest revelation about the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War is that the most duplicitous president in U.S. history actually knew that the U.S. air war in Southeast Asia was a dismal failure. Even as Nixon was telling the media that the saturation bombings of...

    Syria air campaign on, Putin may already seek exit strategy
    Oct15

    Syria air campaign on, Putin may already seek exit strategy

    Thursday, October 15 , 2015 - 16:15 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    MOSCOW (AP) — With Russia’s air campaign in Syria now in its third week, Vladimir Putin has raised his nation’s global profile and proven its capability to project military power far from its borders. Now the Russian president could already be on the lookout for an exit strategy to prevent his gains from turning into a liability.Putin...

    Oxford Geographers Anger Ukraine By Showing Crimea As Russia
    Oct15

    Oxford Geographers Anger Ukraine By Showing Crimea As Russia

    Thursday, October 15 , 2015 - 16:00 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    The Ukrainian Embassy in London has expressed its dismay that an Oxford University Press textbook depicts the Ukrainian region of Crimea — which was annexed by Russia in March 2014 — as part of Russia. The embassy says the textbook “misleads students” about the status of the disputed region. …read more Source: Radio...

    Minister: US to place army equipment in Poland before July
    Oct15

    Minister: US to place army equipment in Poland before July

    Thursday, October 15 , 2015 - 15:45 (EEST) Section: KXAN (USA)

    WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s defense minister says he expects that heavy U.S. army equipment will be placed in the Central European nation before July, when Poland is to host a NATO summit. Poland and other nations in the region that were once under Moscow’s domination feel threatened by Russia’s hostile actions in eastern...

    Trump: Russia isn’t to blame for MH17
    Oct15

    Trump: Russia isn’t to blame for MH17

    Thursday, October 15 , 2015 - 15:45 (EEST) Section: CNN (USA)

    Donald Trump doesn’t believe there is enough evidence to blame pro-Russian separatists for last year’s downing of a commercial airliner over Ukraine — despite the fact that the U.S. intelligence community believes “with confidence” that pro-Russian separatists shot it down. …read more Source:...

    Syria air campaign on, Putin may already seek exit strategy
    Oct15

    Syria air campaign on, Putin may already seek exit strategy

    Thursday, October 15 , 2015 - 15:30 (EEST) Section: KXAN (USA)

    MOSCOW (AP) — With Russia’s air campaign in Syria now in its third week, Vladimir Putin has raised his nation’s global profile and proven its capability to project military power far from its borders. Now the Russian president could already be on the lookout for an exit strategy to prevent his gains from turning into a liability....

    Syria air campaign on, Putin may already seek exit strategy
    Oct15

    Syria air campaign on, Putin may already seek exit strategy

    Thursday, October 15 , 2015 - 15:30 (EEST) Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)

    Putin certainly realizes that some 30 Russian combat jets won’t be able to change the course of the war, and allow Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces to win. Another key task for Putin is bring Moscow and Washington together in a security dialogue, which he hopes would make Russia appear as an equal and eventually lead to improved...