| 04/23/2018 08:40 | Russia set to monitor on UK military TODAY as tensions reach breaking point ( Daily Star )
The inspection intends to reveal the scope of British military activity within an enclosed area. It is estimated Kremlin agents will monitor about 6,170 square miles across the UK. Moscow experts will visit training grounds as well as firing ranges before they receive briefings on military formations and ... |
| 04/22/2018 00:45 | Twitter Bans Kaspersky Labs Ads Over Firm's Alleged Ties to Russian Intelligence ( Gizmodo )
Citing accusations of ties between Kaspersky Labs and Russian intelligence, Twitter has moved to ban the Moscow-based security and antivirus provider ... as requirements under Russian law that âallow Russia intelligence agencies to compel assistance from Kaspersky and to intercept communications ... |
| 04/20/2018 23:40 | 'Daughter of the Cold War' on George Kennan, Russia and Remarkable Life ( Chicago Tonight | WTTW )
It was my father who decided that I would go to a Soviet school in war-torn Moscow, even though I knew no Russian. It was he who taught me to revere the power of the written word. He conveyed to me his love of Russia and Russian literature. But his legacy wasn't all formal lessons and books. |
| 04/20/2018 17:55 | Russia Urges Study-Abroad Students to Come Back Home ( Voice of America )
Genri Sardarian is head of the department of management and politics at Moscow's MGIMO University. He said his school and others across Russia are ready to accept any Russians who decide to come back and continue their studies at home. The worsening ties between the United States and Russia ... |
| 04/20/2018 12:35 | Uncover the offbeat tracks in Russia ( QS WOW News (press release) )
... rocks called Diviy (radiating (radiating âfemale energyâ) and Gus (radiating âmale energyâ). Join us in the upcoming QS WORLDWIDE 2018 from 22-23 May 2018 in Moscow, Russia, as we discuss the topic on âIn Search of University Excellence: Perspectives from Russia and Emerging Countriesâ. |
| 04/19/2018 03:45 | Why Austria's response to the Skripal poisoning wasn't so tough on Russia ( Washington Post )
An opportunity to discuss this issue further couldarise when Foreign Minister Kneissl will travel to Moscow to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on April 20. The political science behind Austria's move. While there is suspicion among some E.U. countries that Austria could be developing ties to ... |
| 04/19/2018 03:45 | Russia takes heavy hand to internet to block messaging app ( New York Daily News )
MOSCOW (AP) â Russian authorities are freezing up vast swathes of the country's online world in what critics call a heavy-handed â and so far unsuccessful â attempt to block a popular messaging app, Telegram. The head of the communications watchdog acknowledged Wednesday that millions of ... |
| 04/19/2018 02:20 | Russia blocks millions of IP addresses in bid to shut messaging app ( The Columbus Dispatch )
MOSCOW â The chief of the Russian communications watchdog acknowledged Wednesday that millions of unrelated IP addresses have been frozen in a so-far futile attempt to block a popular messaging app. Telegram, the messaging app that was ordered to be blocked last week, was still available to ... |
| 04/19/2018 00:10 | Russia admits to blocking millions of IP addresses (U.S. News & World Report)
Russia Takes Heavy Hand to Internet to Block Messaging App - U.S. News & World Report |
| 04/18/2018 20:35 | Russian students get a taste of the Southwest ( Arizona Daily Wildcat )
As political tensions with Russia rise, faculty from University of Arizona's Russian and Slavic studies department decided politics weren't the only thing that would be heating up this semester. Stovetops and ovens warmed up as seven Russian students from Moscow University for the Humanities came to ... |
| 04/18/2018 18:35 | Russia's Telegram ban is a big, convoluted mess ( The Verge )
To get a better idea of Telegram's use in Russia, the government's motivations in blocking it, and the full effect of the present ban, I asked two Russian friends for their thoughts. Both are near my age, based in Moscow, and working in the sphere of technology and communications. How important is ... |
| 04/18/2018 03:35 | The Sanctions on Russia That Never Came (Christian Science Monitor)
Russia wants US military out of Syria. But it still needs US to help bring peace. - Christian Science Monitor |
| 04/18/2018 01:40 | Russia Tells Its Study-Abroad Students: It's Time To Come Home ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
A Russian government agency is calling on Russians studying at universities abroad to come home to continue their studies, a campaign that appears tied to the sharp downward spiral in relations between Moscow and the West. Rossotrudnichestvo, which is tasked with overseeing the wellbeing of ... |
| 04/17/2018 23:40 | Russia's Lavrov Accuses West of 'Genocide by Sanctions' Amid 'Worse' Relations Than Cold War ( Newsweek )
Russia's top diplomat has accused the West of attempting a âgenocide by sanctionsâ against Russia at a time of tense relations comparable to the Cold War. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who has served as Moscow's top diplomatic official for 13 years, blamed the lack of communication with ... |
| 04/17/2018 04:35 | Russian Regulator Orders Internet Providers To Block Telegram App ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
"We consider the decision to block [Telegram] unconstitutional and will continue to stand up for the right of Russians to confidential correspondence," Durov wrote on the social network VKontakte, adding a clenched-fist emoji. In central Moscow, supporters of Telegram threw paper airplanes at the ... |
| 04/16/2018 02:45 | Russia's Lavrov says Skripals may have been poisoned by substance Russia never made ( euronews )
MOSCOW (Reuters) â Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday the nerve agent used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Britain could have been the BZ substance â which was never produced in the Soviet Union or Russia. Lavrov said experts from a laboratory based in the ... |
| 04/15/2018 05:40 | Russia's Lavrov says Skripals may have been poisoned by substance Russia never made ( swissinfo.ch )
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday the nerve agent used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Britain could have been the BZ substance - which was never produced in the Soviet Union or Russia. Lavrov said experts from a laboratory based in the ... |
| 04/14/2018 02:00 | Moscow orders for the immediate ban of Telegram in Russia ( Phone Arena )
The messaging service is one of the most popular in Russia and in the Middle East, with Telegram claiming over 200 million active users in these regions. When the ban is enacted, Telegram's domains and IP addresses will likely be blocked by Russian internet providers. The possibility of using the ... |
| 04/13/2018 09:45 | How 879 Days of Spaceflight Changed This Cosmonaut ( National Geographic )
Moscow, RussiaGennady Padalka is late. ... I pass the minutes by translating the names written in Cyrillic on the posters surrounding me in the Russian Academy of Science's Space Research Institute: Venera, ... Like Moscow, for instance, you fly over Moscow ⌠but then you remember the traffic. Oh, the ... |
| 04/12/2018 21:35 | The silence is over: Russian women find their voice against harassment ( CNN )
In late March, speaking to students at a Moscow University, Peskov compared Harvey Weinstein's accusers to prostitutes, and questioned the Russian journalists' intentions in coming forward so late after their alleged encounters with Slutsky, RFE/RL reported. Many Russian lawmakers continue to tow ... |
