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    NATO cybersecurity drill to focus on hackers
    Apr22

    NATO cybersecurity drill to focus on hackers

    Wednesday, April 22 , 2015 - 0:16 (EEST) Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)

    TALLINN, Estonia — About 400 computer experts will participate in a major cybersecurity drill in Estonia this week as part of NATO’s efforts to upgrade its capability to counter potentially debilitating hacker attacks, organizers said Tuesday. Officials said a key theme this year is the potential threat caused by the migration from the...

    Russian workers’ protests a new challenge to Putin’s policies
    Apr22

    Russian workers’ protests a new challenge to Putin’s policies

    Wednesday, April 22 , 2015 - 0:16 (EEST) Section: San Francisco Chronicle (USA)

    In St. Petersburg, autoworkers laid down their tools. […] at a remote construction site in Siberia, laborers painted their complaints in gigantic white letters on the roofs of their dormitories. After months of frustration with an economy sagging under the weight of international sanctions and falling energy prices, workers across Russia...

    Global Survey: Approval for Russia Lowest Among World Powers; US Highest
    Apr21

    Global Survey: Approval for Russia Lowest Among World Powers; US Highest

    Tuesday, April 21 , 2015 - 23:31 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    For the eighth consecutive year, Russia has earned the lowest approval ratings among major world powers in a survey of people in more than 130 countries, with Moscow’s ranking falling sharply in Western nations after its intervention last year in Ukraine. The Gallup survey of about 1,000 adults in each of the countries showed the United...

    Poland Picks U.S. Missile Shield
    Apr21

    Poland Picks U.S. Missile Shield

    Tuesday, April 21 , 2015 - 22:16 (EEST) Section: The American Interest (USA)

    Today Poland announced its selection of the U.S. Raytheon Company, supplier of the Patriot air defense system, as its strategic partner for the modernization of the country’s air and missile defense (AMD) systems (negotiations will now proceed, with the final contract to be inked in 2016). In addition to the AMD decision, the Polish...

    A Ukrainian National Guard Unit Trains to ‘Fight to the Death’
    Apr21

    A Ukrainian National Guard Unit Trains to ‘Fight to the Death’

    Tuesday, April 21 , 2015 - 22:16 (EEST) Section: Newsweek (USA)

    At its training camp on the outskirts of Kiev this past weekend, the Ukrainian National Guard Azov Regiment held its Spartan Test—a grueling three-hour rite of passage meant to test the mental and physical strength of both new recruits and battle-hardened veterans. The ordeal is the capstone to a two-week-long whirlwind military training program,...

    Kazakh Leader to Extend Long Rule, Promises Stability
    Apr21

    Kazakh Leader to Extend Long Rule, Promises Stability

    Tuesday, April 21 , 2015 - 22:16 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    President Nursultan Nazarbayev will extend his nearly 26-year rule of Kazakhstan in an election on Sunday which investors hope will maintain stability in the Central Asian state despite criticism of his rights record. The 74-year-old former steelworker has held power since 1989 when the oil-producing nation of 17 million stretching from the...

    Poland to Buy US Patriot Missiles, Test Airbus Helicopters
    Apr21

    Poland to Buy US Patriot Missiles, Test Airbus Helicopters

    Tuesday, April 21 , 2015 - 22:01 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    Poland said on Tuesday it would buy Raytheon’s Patriot missiles from the United States and chose Europe’s Airbus utility helicopters for further tests, albeit reducing the size of this potential order. The choice of suppliers in military contracts, worth an estimated $8 billion, strikes a transatlantic balance as Eastern...

    How the Media Became One of Putin’s Most Powerful Weapons
    Apr21

    How the Media Became One of Putin’s Most Powerful Weapons

    Tuesday, April 21 , 2015 - 21:46 (EEST) Section: The Atlantic (USA)

    Ilya Naymushin/Reuters Vladimir Putin is a news junkie. The Russian president’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, didn’t use that expression when we talked by phone, but that’s what he described to me: a man at the center of an ever-churning machine processing vast amounts of news and data at his command. “Sometimes we’re...

    Eritrea and North Korea top list of world’s ‘most censored’ countries
    Apr21

    Eritrea and North Korea top list of world’s ‘most censored’ countries

    Tuesday, April 21 , 2015 - 20:31 (EEST) Section: Mashable (USA)

    A small country in the Horn of Africa was named the world’s most censored place on Tuesday, beating out North Korea for the title in a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Eritrea, a country slightly larger than Pennsylvania that borders the Red Sea, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Sudan, is no stranger to the media watchdogs, having...

    Will Russia’s missile deal with Iran end Israel’s silence on Ukraine?
    Apr21

    Will Russia’s missile deal with Iran end Israel’s silence on Ukraine?

    Tuesday, April 21 , 2015 - 19:31 (EEST) Section: Jewish Telegraphic Agency (USA)

    Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, being greeted by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, June 25, 2012. (Israel Government Press Office/Kobi Gideon) (JTA) — After Russia invaded Ukraine in March 2014, Israel resisted pressure to join the United States and its European allies in condemning the move —...