| 01/13/2018 21:20 | Meet the Russia specialist who worked on 2 of Fusion GPS' most controversial projects ( INSIDER )
Christopher Steele, the former British spy who had spent decades on the Moscow desk at the UK's foreign intelligence service MI6, was not the only subcontractor Fusion hired to research Trump, Simpson said. But his research on Trump's Russia ties, conducted between June through December 2016, ... |
| 01/13/2018 19:15 | Spartak Moscow criticised for "racist" tweet about own players ( BBC Sport )
A social media message containing "racist references" posted by Russian club Spartak Moscow "shows a shocking level of ignorance", says the chief of anti-discriminatory body Fare. Spartak tweeted a video of some black players training in sunny conditions with a message translating as "see how the ... |
| 01/12/2018 13:20 | US has de-facto occupied part of Syria & hinders humanitarian aid â Moscow ( RT )
Rukban camp is located in the 55-kilometer area around Al-Tanf that is âde-facto occupied by the US armed forces,â with access to the district denied to the country's lawful authorities, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. âThe training of militants from illegal Syrian armed groups continues at ... |
| 01/10/2018 21:15 | Leadership of Moscow jail exceeds its official powers selling places in VIP-cells ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
The inspection materials were sent to the Investigative Committee for resolving the issue of instituting criminal proceedings against the officials of Matrosskaya Tishina. The Head of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in Moscow made two proposals about the elimination of the violations revealed. |
| 01/10/2018 00:10 | Abington Heights grad Claire Traweek conducts internship in Russia ( The Abington Journal )
Claire Traweek, 19, of Clarks Summit, spent this past summer completing an internship at MEPhI, a physics institute in Moscow, Russia. âIt was a really good experience â definitely something I would do again. I do want to go back to Russia at some point,â she said, adding she would especially like to ... |
| 01/08/2018 14:10 | Russian Middle East Expert Alexander Shumilin: Iran Uprising And Its Consequences For Russia ( Middle East Media Research Institute )
Alexander Shumilin, Director of the Center for the Analysis of Middle East Conflicts at the Institute of the U.S. and Canadian Studies in Moscow, analyzed the consequences of the popular uprising in Iran for Russia in an article, titled "Iran Burning. Consequences For Russia,". According to Shumilin, what ... |
| 01/08/2018 04:00 | Fifa promise talks with Russia drug whistle-blower ( The Star, Kenya )
Dr Rodchenkov, former head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, helped to run Russia's doping programme. The Russian has since fled to the USA, where he is in witness protection. He is said to have extensive knowledge of 'disappearing positive methodology,' whereby Russian government ... |
| 01/06/2018 09:05 | Unsentimental ties ( The Indian Express )
Beyond Europe, Russia has joined China in reshaping the geopolitics of Eurasia. It has re-emerged as a critical player in the Middle East. Note its successful military intervention to shore up the regime of Bashar al Assad. In partnership with Beijing, Moscow also created regional institutions like the SCO, ... |
| 01/03/2018 00:30 | Russian Scientist Predicts 10 Years of Cold for Country's South ( The Moscow Times )
Southern Russia is in for a ten-year cold spell starting this year, the Russian Academy of Sciences warns. Last year brought freak storms in early summer and ... in recorded history citing increasingly warm winters. But Russia's south is about to experience an opposite trend, one scientist has warned. |
| 01/02/2018 22:50 | The evidence isn't on Trump's side in 'collusion' war of words ( NBCNews.com )
âDuring this meeting, the Professor told defendant PAPADOPOULOS that he had just returned from a trip to Moscow where he had met with high-level Russian government officials. The Professor told defendant PAPADOPOULOS that on that trip he (the Professor) learned that the Russians had obtained ... |
| 01/02/2018 01:55 | New NYT scoop on Russia raises questions about old NYT story on Russia ( Washington Post )
Topical stuff. Major media outlets had been following strands of the Trump-Russia story for months. Just before the Lichtblau-Myers collaboration hit the Internet, for example, Slate ran a detailed story asking whether a server of the Trump Organization was communicating with Moscow's Alfa Bank. |
| 01/02/2018 00:50 | Russian doping scandal whistle-blower lives in fear of his life ( New Zealand Herald )
The Russian doping scandal could be deeper than realised with 'thousands more cheats' still to be exposed in the secret computer files obtained by the World Anti-Doping Agency from the corrupt Moscow laboratory. The lawyer representing whistle-blower Grigory Rodchenkov, who revealed the depth ... |
| 01/01/2018 23:05 | California's Devin Nunes reasserts authority over House Russia probe ( The Spokesman-Review )
If there is one aspect of the Russia probe that seems destined to outlast the House Intelligence Committee's preferred timeline, it is Nunes's investigation of Fusion GPS, the firm behind a dossier detailing Trump's alleged connections to Russian officials, financiers and exploits in Moscow. Nunes's ... |
| 12/31/2017 23:20 | Blumenthal: Trump's denial of Russia collusion 'rotten at core' ( The Hill )
Papadopoulos apparently shared information provided to him by Joseph Mifsud, a London-based professor with ties to Moscow officials, who told him that the Russians had "thousands of emails" obtained by hackers from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that had yet to be released. Australian ... |
| 12/30/2017 21:50 | The Year Russian LGBT Persecution Defied Belief ( The New Yorker )
By the end of the year, the Russian L.G.B.T. Network and the Moscow L.G.B.T. Community Center had succeeded in getting a hundred and six people out of Chechnya and then out of Russia altogether. A handful of people with no special training and very little funding at the start managed to save a ... |
| 12/29/2017 23:40 | Russian hackers plan to 'RULE WORLD' using Ukraine as 'training ground' for UK attack ( Express.co.uk )
Earlier this month Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson warned Russia not to use hacking or cyberbots to target the UK. He was embroiled in the extraordinary spat during a press conference in Moscow with his Russian counterpart over claims the Kremlin meddled in the Brexit referendum and general ... |
| 12/29/2017 22:45 | Russia restores contact with Angolan satellite ( The Japan Times )
MOSCOW â Russian specialists on Friday said they have restored communication with Angosat-1, the first national satellite it launched for Angola, days after they lost contact with it. âSpecialists of Energia rocket and space corporation have received telemetry information from Angosat,â Energia said in a ... |
| 12/29/2017 18:05 | News Analysis: US-Russia relations expected to remain at low point ( Xinhua )
28 (Xinhua) -- U.S.-Russia relations remain at a low point near the year's end, and the chill is not expected to thaw in 2018, U.S. experts said. "U.S. relations with Russia are at a low point," Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Darrell West told Xinhua. Washington's relationship with Moscow has been sour ... |
| 12/28/2017 02:40 | Russia accuses US of training former ISIS fighters in Syria ( Al-Arabiya )
Russian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov (L) and Chinese Defence Minister Chang Wanquan attend the 5th Moscow Conference on International ... The chief of the Russian General Staff has accused the United States of training former ISIS fighters in Syria to try to destabilize the country. |
| 12/26/2017 21:45 | Russian internet pioneer passes away in Moscow ( TASS )
Born on January 6, 1954, Bardin graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) and worked as a programmer at the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy (now known as the National Research Center - Kurchatov Institute). That was where a computer network had been created in the ... |
