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Ransomware

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Ransomware is a type of malware which restricts access to the computer system that it infects, and demands a ransom paid to the creator(s) of the malware in order for the restriction to be removed. Some forms of ransomware encrypt files on the system's hard drive (cryptoviral extortion, a threat originally envisioned by Adam Young and Moti Yung), while some may simply lock the system anddisplay messages intended to coax the user into paying.

While initially popular in Russia, the use of ransomware scams has grown internationally;[1][2][3] in June 2013, security software vendor McAfee released data showing that it had collected over 250,000 unique samples of ransomware in the first quarter of 2013—more than double the number it had obtained in the first quarter of 2012.[4] CryptoLocker, a ransomware worm that surfaced in late-2013, had procured an estimated US$3 million before it was taken down by authorities.[5]

Pay it or fight it?
Sunday April 12th, 2015 at 9:46 PM

Network World Colin Neagle

Ask security experts what to do when hit with ransomware – the sophisticated malware that infects a device or network, uses military-grade encryption to restrict access, and demands payment for the decryption key – and you'll typically get the same answer: "never pay the ransom."

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But for many, that's simply not an option. For example, last November an employee in the Sheriff's Department in Dickinson County, Tenn., accidentally clicked on a malicious ad and exposed the office network to the infamous CryptoWall ransomware. Detective Jeff McCliss told local News Channel 5 that CryptoWall had encrypted "every sort of document you could develop in an investigation," such as witness statements and evidence photos. Even after consulting with the FBI and U.S. military, McCliss told the news station that the only solution was to pay the $500 to the cybercriminals to get their files back.

This wasn't an isolated case – for example, a police department in suburban Chicago recently paid a $600 ransom after it was struck by a similar attack, according to the Chicago Tribune. Although ransomware has been around in some (less successful) forms since the late 1980s, modern ransomware is designed to be essentially impenetrable. Only the malware author holds the private decryption key, meaning the only way to fight this threat is to prepare for it ahead of time. Enterprises that aren't fully prepared for a ransomware attack really have no incentive not to pay. In fact, many of those who do think they're prepared find that they have no option other than to negotiate with their hostage takers.

Organizations that employ real-time backup and frequently test their tools typically survive a ransomware attack unscathed – they can simply wipe the infected device and restore the backed-up files.

This is hardly the reality for many organizations, especially for mid-sized companies with limited to no IT resources or even larger organizations whose IT staff is spread thin. Even organizations that have prepared for this kind of scenario often find that their file restore functions don't work, says Stu Sjouwerman, CEO of security training firm KnowBe4, which has advised and assisted victims of ransomware. Many organizations that invest in a file backup solution fail to test their restore function. When they need it to work, they find that they cannot restore all the files that they backed up, rendering the backup efforts futile.

"They overlook [testing the restore function] all the time," Sjouerwman says. "It is a best practice, but IT is, as you well know, under a lot of pressure. They are forced to put out fires all day long and in the meantime also put new systems online. So it's hard to find time for that type of thing in a day-to-day IT environment."

From there, the decision to pay basically comes down to whether the data that was encrypted is worth more than the ransom demanded.

In most of these cases, paying the ransom is a "no-brainer" for the organization, Sjouwerman says. That's because ransomware is largely automated, demanding around $500 in exchange for the decryption key for all victims. The ransom for a police department's evidence might be the same for a personal PC user's photos.

"Ransomware is the Walmart of cybercrime. They just have decided to automate the whole process," Sjouwerman says. "And they are massively phishing as many email addresses and companies as they possibly can. For them, they have figured out that the business model is: some people will have backups, some people won't. Of the people that don't, it has to be a no-brainer."

The cybercriminals behind these attacks are concerned with maximizing the likelihood of their victims paying the ransom. Theoretically, they could increase the payout for cases where they've encrypted more valuable data. But the key is to make sure they pay up, and keeping the price within a reasonable range will increase the chances that more victims will pay.

Honor among thieves

Along these lines, many of the people behind ransomware have focused on creating a trustworthy reputation on the Internet, honoring all ransom payments and leaving victims alone once the exchange has been made. In December, Sjouwerman told CSO about a new strain of ransomware called OphionLocker that was designed to recognize the devices it had infected in the past so that it doesn't hit the same victims repeatedly. And in his experience working with ransomware victims, Sjouwerman says every victim that has paid the required ransom amount did receive their decryption key, most of them within an hour of sending the payment.

The objective is to make the decision as easy as possible for ransomware victims – if they pay up, they will receive access to their files and can put the entire ordeal behind them. "If they are not prepared and they are hit, most of them will pay," Sjouwerman says.

So it's not much of a surprise that ransomware has grown so rapidly since CryptoLocker, the now-defunct ransomware strain that brought this model to the internet, was released in September 2013. Symantec estimated in September (PDF) that CryptoLocker-style ransomware grew 700% in 2014. McAfee recently reported (PDF) a 155% growth of ransomware in the fourth quarter of 2014.

The IT security community may advise against paying the ransom as a means of removing the incentive for cybercriminals to engage in this kind of scam. But that is usually the last thing on the minds of IT decision makers who just want to get their files back and get back to work. For an organization that faces losing weeks' or months' worth of data, they can write off the expense as a learning experience.

"This is in jest and more ironic than anything else, but you almost have to be grateful to the Eastern European cyber mafia to send you a social engineering audit that tests both your employees and your IT department for being click-happy, and also if best practices are being implemented or done," Sjouwerman says. "It's a really cheap audit, for $500."

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FBI — FBI Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2016
Sunday April 12th, 2015 at 9:43 PM

Good morning Chairman Culberson, Ranking Member Fattah, and members of the subcommittee.

As you know, the FBI is asked to deal with a wide range of threats, crime problems, and operational challenges across the national security and law enforcement spectrum. Today, I appear before you on behalf of the men and women of the FBI who step up to these threats and challenges. I am here to express my appreciation for the support you have given them in the past and to ask your continued support in the future.

I would like to begin by providing a brief overview of the FBI’s fiscal year (FY) 2016 budget request, and then follow with a short discussion of key threats and challenges that we face, both as a nation and an organization.

FY 2016 Budget Request Overview

The FY 2016 budget request proposes a total of $8.48 billion in direct budget authority to address the FBI’s highest priorities. The request includes a total of $8.4 billion for salaries and expenses, supporting 35,037 permanent positions (13,074 special agents, 3,083 intelligence analysts, and 18,880 professional staff), and $68.9 million for construction. Two program enhancements totaling $20 million are proposed: $10.3 million to increase cyber investigative capabilities, and $9.7 million to leverage Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise (IC ITE) components and services within the FBI.

The FY 2016 request includes the cancellation of $120 million from Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) excess surcharge balances and $91.4 million in non-recurred spending ($50.4 million in the salaries and expenses account and $41 million in the construction account).

Overall, the FY 2016 request represents a net increase of $47 million over the FY 2015 enacted levels, representing an increase of $88 million for salaries and expenses and a decrease of $41 million for construction.

Key Threats and Challenges

As a nation and as an organization, we face a multitude of ever-evolving threats from homegrown violent extremists to hostile foreign intelligence services and agents; from sophisticated cyber-based attacks to Internet facilitated sexual exploitation of children; from violent gangs and criminal organizations to public corruption and corporate fraud. Within these threats, we face growing challenges, from keeping pace with constantly changing and new technologies that make our jobs both easier and harder; to the use of the Internet and social media to facilitate illegal activities, recruit followers and encourage terrorist attacks, and to disperse information on building improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and other means to attack the U.S. The breadth of these threats and challenges are as complex as any time in our history. And the consequences of not responding to and countering threats and challenges have never been greater.

The support of this committee in helping the FBI to do its part in facing these threats and challenges is greatly appreciated. That support has allowed us to establish strong capabilities and capacities for assessing threats, sharing intelligence, leveraging key technologies, and—in some respects, most importantly—to hiring some of the best to serve as special agents, intelligence analysts, and professional staff. We are building a workforce that possesses the skills and knowledge to deal with the complex threats and challenges we face today—and tomorrow. We are building a leadership cadre that views change and transformation as a positive tool for keeping the FBI focused on the key threats facing our nation.

We remain focused on defending the United States against terrorism, foreign intelligence, and cyber threats; upholding and enforcing the criminal laws of the United States; protecting civil rights and civil liberties; and providing leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners. Our ability to carry out this demanding mission reflects the continued support and oversight provided by this committee.

Countering Terrorism

Preventing terrorist attacks remains the FBI’s top priority. The terrorist threat against the United States remains persistent and acute.

The threats posed by foreign fighters, including those recruited from the U.S., traveling to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and from homegrown violent extremists are extremely dynamic. These threats remain the biggest priorities and challenges for the FBI, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and our foreign, state, and local partners. ISIL is relentless and ruthless in its pursuits to terrorize individuals in Syria and Iraq, including Westerners. We are concerned about the possibility of individuals in the U.S. being radicalized and recruited via the Internet and social media to join ISIL in Syria and Iraq and then return to the U.S. to commit terrorist acts. ISIL’s widespread reach through the Internet and social media is most concerning as the group has proven dangerously competent at employing such tools for its nefarious strategy. ISIL uses high-quality, traditional media platforms, as well as widespread social media campaigns to propagate its extremist ideology. Recently released propaganda has included various English language publications circulated via social media. We are equally concerned over the execution of U.S. citizens taken as hostages by ISIL.

As a communications tool, the Internet remains a critical node for terror groups to exploit. Recently, a group of five individuals was arrested for knowingly and willingly conspiring and attempting to provide material support and resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations active in Syria and Iraq. Much of their conspiracy was played out via the Internet. We remain concerned about recent calls to action by ISIL and its supporters on violent extremist web forums that could potentially motivate homegrown extremists to conduct attacks here at home. Online supporters of ISIL have used various social media platforms to call for retaliation against the U.S. In one case, an Ohio-based man was arrested in January after he stated his intent to conduct an attack on the U.S. Capitol building. The individual is alleged to have used a Twitter account to post statements, videos, and other content indicating support for ISIL.

Echoing other terrorist groups, ISIL has advocated for lone wolf attacks in Western countries. A recent ISIL video specifically advocated for attacks against soldiers, law enforcement, and intelligence community personnel. Several incidents have occurred in the United States, Canada, and Europe over the last few months that indicate this “call to arms” has resonated among ISIL supporters and sympathizers.

Al Qaeda and its affiliates—especially al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)—continue to represent a top terrorist threat to the nation and our interests overseas. AQAP’s online English magazine advocates for lone wolves to conduct attacks against the U.S. homeland and Western targets. The magazine regularly encourages homegrown violent extremists to carry out small arms attacks and provides detailed “how-to” instructions for constructing and deploying a successful improvised explosive device.

With our domestic and foreign partners, we are rigorously collecting and analyzing intelligence information as it pertains to the ongoing threat posed by ISIL, AQAP, and other foreign terrorist organizations. Given the global impact of the Syria and Iraq conflicts, regular engagement with our domestic and foreign partners concerning foreign fighters is critical. These partnerships are critical to performing our counterterrorism mission and ensuring a coordinated approach towards national security threats.

The FBI, along with our local, state, tribal, and federal partners, is utilizing all investigative techniques and methods to combat the threat these terrorists may pose to the U.S. We must maintain robust information sharing and close collaboration with our state, local, tribal, and federal partners. Individuals who are affiliated with a foreign terrorist organization, inspired by a foreign terrorist organization, or who are self-radicalized are living in their communities. We recognize it is our responsibility to share information pertaining to ongoing or emerging threats immediately. Our local and state partners rely on this intelligence to conduct their investigations and maintain the safety of their communities. It is our responsibility to provide them with the information and resources to keep their communities out of harm’s way. In each of the FBI’s 56 field offices, Joint Terrorism Task Forces serve as a vital mechanism for information sharing among our partners. These task forces consist of more than 4,100 members—including more than 1,500 interagency personnel from more than 600 federal, state, territorial, and tribal partner agencies. Together with our local, state, tribal, and federal partners, we are committed to combating the threat from homegrown violent extremists and ensuring the safety of the American public.

Among the FBI’s counterterrorism capabilities is the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC). TEDAC is a whole of government resource for the exploitation of IEDs and combating the terrorist use of explosives. TEDAC is proving to be a valuable tool supporting the military, homeland security, international partners, intelligence, and law enforcement communities by developing and sharing intelligence about terrorist explosive devices. Prior to TEDAC, no single part of our government was responsible for analyzing and exploiting intelligence related to terrorist IEDs. TEDAC will begin occupying the first phase of its new facilities this spring. The second phase of construction, which will include a joint partnership with the Department of Homeland Security, is expected to be completed in FY 2016. The third phase of construction will provide a collaboration center that is expected to be completed in FY 2017. Also, consistent with funding provided by the committee this fiscal year, the FBI is expanding facilities and training at the Hazardous Devices School (HDS). This effort is just getting underway.

Countering Foreign Intelligence and Espionage

The nation faces a continuing threat, both traditional and asymmetric, from hostile foreign intelligence agencies. Traditional espionage—career foreign agents acting as diplomats or ordinary citizens—and asymmetric espionage—typically carried out by students, researchers, or businesspeople operating front companies—are prevalent. And they seek not only state and military secrets, but also commercial trade secrets, research and development, and intellectual property, as well as insider information from the federal government, U.S. corporations, and American universities. Foreign intelligence services continue to employ more creative and more sophisticated methods to steal innovative technology, critical research and development data, and intellectual property, in an effort to erode America’s economic leading edge. These illicit activities pose a significant threat to national security.

We also remain focused on the growing scope of the insider threat—that is, when trusted employees and contractors use their legitimate access to steal secrets for personal benefit or to benefit another company or country. This threat has been exacerbated in recent years as businesses have become more global and increasingly exposed to foreign intelligence organizations.

To combat this threat, we are working with academic and business partners to protect against economic espionage. We also work with the defense industry, academic institutions, and the general public to address the increased targeting of unclassified trade secrets across all American industries and sectors.

Cyber-Based Threats

An element of virtually every national security threat and crime problem the FBI faces is cyber-based or facilitated. We face sophisticated cyber threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, organized cyber syndicates, and terrorists. On a daily basis, cyber-based actors seek our state secrets, our trade secrets, our technology, and our ideas—things of incredible value to all of us and of great importance to the conduct of our government business and our national security. They seek to strike our critical infrastructure and to harm our economy.

Given the scope of the cyber threat, the FBI and other intelligence, military, homeland security, and law enforcement agencies across the government view cyber security and cyber attacks as a top priority. Within the FBI, we are targeting high-level intrusions—the biggest and most dangerous botnets, state-sponsored hackers, and global cyber syndicates. We want to predict and prevent attacks, rather than reacting after the fact.

As the committee is well aware, the frequency and impact of cyber attacks on our nation’s private sector and government networks have increased dramatically in the past decade and are expected to continue to grow. Since FY 2002, the FBI has seen an 80 percent increase in its number of computer intrusion investigations.

FBI agents, analysts, and computer scientists are using technical capabilities and traditional investigative techniques—such as sources, court-authorized electronic surveillance, physical surveillance, and forensics—to fight cyber threats. We are working side-by-side with our federal, state, and local partners on Cyber Task Forces in each of our 56 field offices and through the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF), which serves as a coordination, integration, and information sharing center for 19 U.S. agencies and several key international allies for cyber threat investigations. Through CyWatch, our 24-hour cyber command center, we combine the resources of the FBI and NCIJTF, allowing us to provide connectivity to federal cyber centers, government agencies, FBI field offices and legal attachés, and the private sector in the event of a cyber intrusion. We have recently co-located our cyber efforts into a new FBI facility.

The FBI is engaged in a myriad of efforts to combat cyber threats, from efforts focused on threat identification and sharing inside and outside of government, to our internal emphasis on developing and retaining new talent and changing the way we operate to evolve with the cyber threat. The FY 2016 budget request includes an enhancement of $10.3 million to support these efforts.

In addition to key national security threats, the FBI and the nation faces significant criminal threats ranging from complex white-collar fraud in the financial, health care, and housing sectors to transnational and regional organized criminal enterprises to violent crime and public corruption. Criminal organizations—domestic and international—and individual criminal activity represent a significant threat to our security and safety in communities across the nation.

Public Corruption

Public corruption is the FBI’s top criminal priority. The threat—which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials—strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our democracy. It impacts how well U.S. borders are secured and neighborhoods are protected, how verdicts are handed down in court, and how well public infrastructure such as schools and roads are built. The FBI is uniquely situated to address this threat, with our ability to conduct undercover operations, perform court-authorized electronic surveillance, and run complex, long-term investigations and operations. However, partnerships are critical, and we work closely with federal, state, local, and tribal, authorities in pursuing these cases.

One key focus for us is border corruption. The U.S. government oversees 7,000 miles of U.S. land border and 95,000 miles of shoreline. Every day, more than a million visitors enter the country through one of 327 official ports of entry along the Mexican and Canadian borders, as well as through seaports and international airports. Any corruption at the border enables a wide range of illegal activities, potentially placing the entire nation at risk by letting drugs, arms, money, and weapons of mass destruction slip into the country, along with criminals, terrorists, and spies. Another focus concerns election crime. Although individual states have primary responsibility for conducting fair and impartial elections, the FBI becomes involved when paramount federal interests are affected or electoral abuse occurs.

Gangs/Violent Crime

Violent crimes and gang activities exact a high toll on individuals and communities. Today’s gangs are sophisticated and well organized; many use violence to control neighborhoods and boost their illegal money-making activities, which include robbery, drug and gun trafficking, fraud, extortion, and prostitution rings. Gangs do not limit their illegal activities to single jurisdictions or communities. The FBI’s ability to work across jurisdictional boundaries is vital to the fight against violent crime in big cities and small towns across the nation. Every day, FBI special agents work in partnership with state, local, and tribal officers and deputies on joint task forces and individual investigations.

FBI joint task forces—Violent Crime Safe Streets, Violent Gang Safe Streets, and Safe Trails Task Forces—focus on identifying and targeting major groups operating as criminal enterprises. Much of the Bureau’s criminal intelligence is derived from partnerships with our state, local, and tribal law enforcement partners, who know their communities inside and out. Joint task forces benefit from FBI surveillance assets and our sources track these gangs to identify emerging trends. Through these multi-subject and multi-jurisdictional investigations, the FBI concentrates its efforts on high-level groups engaged in patterns of racketeering. This investigative model enables us to target senior gang leadership and to develop enterprise-based prosecutions.

Transnational Organized Crime

More than a decade ago, the image of organized crime was of hierarchical organizations, or families, that exerted influence over criminal activities in neighborhoods, cities, or states. But organized crime has changed dramatically. Today, international criminal enterprises run multi- national, multi-billion-dollar schemes from start to finish. These criminal enterprises are flat, fluid networks with global reach. While still engaged in many of the “traditional” organized crime activities of loan-sharking, extortion, and murder, new criminal enterprises are targeting stock market fraud and manipulation, cyber-facilitated bank fraud and embezzlement, identity theft, trafficking of women and children, and other illegal activities. Preventing and combating transnational organized crime demands a concentrated effort by the FBI and federal, state, local, tribal, and international partners. The FBI continues to share intelligence about criminal groups with our partners and to combine resources and expertise to gain a full understanding of each group.

Crimes Against Children

The FBI remains vigilant in its efforts to eradicate predators from our communities and to keep our children safe. Ready response teams are stationed across the country to quickly respond to abductions. Investigators bring to this issue the full array of forensic tools such as DNA, trace evidence, impression evidence, and digital forensics. Through improved communications, law enforcement also has the ability to quickly share information with partners throughout the world, and our outreach programs play an integral role in prevention.

The FBI also has several programs in place to educate both parents and children about the dangers posed by violent predators. Through our Child Abduction Rapid Deployment teams, Innocence Lost National Initiative, Innocent Images National Initiative, Office for Victim Assistance, and numerous community outreach programs, the FBI and its partners are working to keep our children safe from harm.

The FBI established the Child Sex Tourism Initiative to employ proactive strategies to identify U.S. citizens who travel overseas to engage in illicit sexual conduct with children. These strategies also include a multi-disciplinary approach through partnerships with foreign law enforcement and non-governmental organizations to provide child victims with available support services. Similarly, the FBI’s Innocence Lost National Initiative serves as the model for the partnership between federal, state, and local law enforcement in addressing child prostitution. Since its inception in FY 2003, the FBI has partnered with nearly 400 law enforcement agencies from 71 child exploitation task forces throughout the country. This initiative has been responsible for the location and recovery of more than 4,350 children. The investigations and subsequent 1,950 convictions have resulted in lengthy sentences, including 15 life terms.

Key Cross-Cutting Capabilities and Capacities

I would like to briefly highlight two key cross-cutting capabilities and capacities that are critical to our efforts in each of the threat and crime problems described.

Intelligence

The FBI is a national security and law enforcement organization that collects, uses, and shares intelligence in everything we do. The FBI’s efforts to advance intelligence capabilities have focused on streamlining and optimizing our intelligence components while simultaneously positioning the Bureau to carry out its responsibilities as the lead domestic intelligence agency. Since 9/11, the FBI has transformed itself to become a threat-based, intelligence-informed national security and law enforcement agency. Such a transformation is a continuous journey and, while we have made substantial progress, we recognize we still have a journey ahead of us.

This past year, I asked and received the committee’s approval to restructure the FBI’s intelligence program to reflect the progress we have made. I would like to extend my appreciation for your support of my request. I am confident that restructuring will allow us to take the next step towards the seamless integration of intelligence and operations. I also anticipate the restructuring will facilitate smoother and more efficient exchange of intelligence with the Intelligence Community and international partners.

The FBI cannot be content to just work what is directly in front of us. We must also be able to look beyond the horizon and understand the threats we face at home and abroad and how those threats may be connected. Towards that end, intelligence is gathered, consistent with our authorities, to help us understand and rank identified threats and to determine where there are gaps in what we know about these threats. We then try to fill those gaps and continue to learn as much as we can about the threats we are addressing and those we may need to address. We do this for national security and criminal threats, on both a national and local field office level. We then compare the national and local perspectives to develop a threat prioritization ranking for each of the FBI’s 56 field offices. By creating this ranking, we strive to actively pursue our highest threats. This gives us a better assessment of what the dangers are, what’s being done about them, and what we should spend time and resources on.

Operational and Information Technology

As criminal and terrorist threats become more diverse and dangerous, the role of technology becomes increasingly important to our efforts. We are using technology to improve the way we collect, analyze, and share information. We have seen significant improvement in capabilities and capacities over the past decade; but technology remains a key concern for the future.

For example, we recently deployed new technology for the FBI’s Next Generation Identification System. This technology enables us to process fingerprint transactions much faster and with more accuracy. This year, the Biometrics Technology Center will come online. This shared facility will enhance collaboration between the FBI’s Biometrics Center of Excellence and the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Biometrics Fusion Center. Together, these centers will advance centralized biometric storage, analysis, and sharing with state and local law enforcement, DOD, and others. In addition, we are also integrating isolated stand-alone investigative data sets so that we can search multiple databases more efficiently, and, in turn, pass along relevant information to our partners.

The rapid pace of advances in mobile and other communication technologies continue to present a significant challenge to conducting court-ordered electronic surveillance of criminals and terrorists. These court-ordered surveillances are often critical in cyber cases where we are trying to identify those individuals responsible for attacks on networks, denial of services, and attempts to compromise protected information. However, there is a growing and dangerous gap between law enforcement’s legal authority to conduct electronic surveillance, and its actual ability to conduct such surveillance. Because of this gap, law enforcement is increasingly unable to gain timely access to the information it needs to protect public safety and bring these criminals to justice. We are grateful for this subcommittee’s support in funding the National Domestic Communications Assistance Center. The center enables law enforcement to share tools, train one another in modern intercept solutions, and reach out to the communications industry with one voice. It is only by working together—within the law enforcement and intelligence communities, and with our private sector partners—that we will develop effective strategies enabling long-term solution to address this growing problem.

The FY 2016 budget request includes $9.7 million for the initial installment of a multi-year information technology strategy to enhance the FBI’s ability to share information with partners in the Intelligence Community using cloud computing and common desktop environments.

Conclusion

Being asked to respond to complex and ever-changing threats and crime problems is not new to the FBI. Our success in meeting these challenges is directly tied to the resources provided to the FBI. The resources this subcommittee provides each year are critical for the FBI’s ability to address existing and emerging national security and criminal threats.

Chairman Culberson, Ranking Member Fattah, and members of the subcommittee, I would like to close by thanking you for this opportunity to discuss the FBI’s budget request for FY 2016 and the key threats and challenges that we are facing, both as a nation and as an organization. We are grateful for the leadership that you and this subcommittee have provided to the FBI. We would not possess the capabilities and capacities to deal with these threats and challenges today without your support. Your willingness to invest in and support our workforce and our physical and technical infrastructure allow the men and women of the FBI to make a difference every day in communities large and small throughout our nation and in locations around the world. We thank you for that support.

I look forward to answering any questions you may have.

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Is Local Law Enforcement Safe From Hacking?
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Is Local law enforcement safe from hackers?

Only half of law enforcement agencies feel their computer systems and network security policies could withstand a cyber attack, according to a 2013 survey of sheriff’s offices and local and state police agencies. This is even though 82% of agencies in the survey believed cyber assaults posed at least a moderately serious threat.

The survey by the International Association of Chiefs of Police also found that less than one third of the law enforcement agencies had an external security agency audit their computer systems. That was especially true for smaller agencies that had never been the target of an attack. For many agencies, the importance of an audit became apparent after, rather than before, a cyber attack.

The survey results contained some other troubling findings as well. In the previous year, 11% of respondents reported their agency had been the target of a cyber attack. Of those, little seems to be known about the source of the attack. While 18% of those attacked were able to report an international source, the majority of respondents could only say the source was unknown. Furthermore, of the 11% of survey respondents who reported an attack, it appears that roughly 25% of hacking attempts were "successful" at gleaning information from secured systems.

In these cases, it appears that the primary aim of hackers was to gain access to the Records Management System (RMS), either to manipulate critical investigation data or remove criminal records. Though some areas still use a paper-based RMS, many local law enforcement agencies have converted to computer records. If a hacker were to gain access to these records, it could not only pose a significant setback to current investigations, but, according to over half of all survey respondents, it could also put officers in danger.

When rating the potential impact of a cyber attack:

46% of respondents thought the loss of credible electronic records was a very serious potential impact
35% said loss of critical data in current investigations was a very serious potential impact
29% said compromised investigations were a very serious potential impact

The survey received responses from 456 law enforcement agencies, the majority of which were municipal police departments that ranged from one sworn officer to 1,400. Other agencies included sheriff’s departments, state police agencies and fewer than 2% of the responses were from Canadian agencies.

Some Questions to Ask

Protecting local law enforcement agencies from the threat of cyber attacks is a matter of first asking the right questions. With many agencies using only digital records systems, it is crucial to have a trusted agency IT team that can properly manage system security and maintenance as new threats evolve. Agencies should ask some of these questions when assessing system security:

Who has overall access to computer systems, particularly sensitive emails or confidential investigative files?
Does your agency understand how to remove access rights for these files, such as for former employees? Is there a specific person assigned to remove these rights?
Have any external companies, such as hardware or software vendors, ever had access to systems? If so, has their access been revoked?
Are all computer applications and operating systems up to date with the latest security patches?
Related to that, are you sure that your agency is using programs or operating systems that developers still support with updates?

While by no means exhaustive, asking questions like these can help local law enforcement agencies that may not know where to start.

Additional Help

Analyzing system security does not need to be done in isolation. In fact, there are several government agencies that specifically offer advice on how to upgrade systems and increase resilience against an attack.

One such agency is the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). MS-ISAC is an organization that facilitates information sharing among members, private companies and government agencies like the Department of Homeland Security.

By serving as a platform for dialogue on cybersecurity, particularly through its Cyber Threat Intelligence Coordinating Group (CTICG), MS-ISAC can help local law enforcement agencies understand current best practices in system security and function as an early warning system for the latest threats.

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At first, the problems with the Tewksbury Police Department system — difficulty calling up arrest and incident records — seemed to be just the usual system crankiness. No big deal.

But it persisted, and a technician was called in.

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That was when the menacing message popped up on the screen, an explanation in the form of a ransom note:

“Your personal files are encrypted,” it read. “File decryption costs ~ $500.”

It continued: “If you really value your data, then we suggest you do not waste valuable time searching for other solutions because they do not exist.”

Tewksbury had joined the list of police departments victimized by “ransomware,” an insidious form of Internet crime that is crippling computers worldwide.

“My initial thoughts were we were infected by some sort of a virus,” Tewksbury Police Chief Timothy Sheehan recalled of the attack on Dec. 8. “Then we determined it was a little bit bigger than that. It was more like cyberterrorism.”

Digital thieves smuggle ransomware programs with names like KEYHolder, CryptoLocker, or CryptoWall by sending tainted e-mail messages, such as a fake notice from a package delivery service containing a hyperlink that infects the recipient’s computer when clicked.

Once on board, the ransomware program encrypts the victim’s data, making it useless without a key that unscrambles it. The victim can obtain the key by paying a ransom, usually a few hundred dollars.

The cyberattack on Tewksbury police proved so sophisticated that specialists from federal and state law enforcement agencies — plus two private Internet security firms — could not unscramble the corrupted files. After five days of desperate efforts to unlock it, Tewksbury police decided to pay the anonymous hacker the $500.

The attack was first reported over the weekend by the Tewksbury Town Crier.

Among other small-town police forces hit was the Swansea Police Department. It fell victim to the same threat in November 2013 and paid $750 to get its files back.

The police department in the Chicago suburb of Midlothian paid $500 in January. In Dickson County, Tenn., the sheriff’s office came under attack in October. Despite seeking aid from the FBI, the agency ended up paying $572 in ransom.

But in Durham, N.H., Police Chief Dave Kurz chose not to pay because the department had backed up the encrypted information and could work around the seized database.

“We had to clean essentially all the computers, but all of our data was prepared,” Kurz said.

The four-member police force in Collinsville, Ala., was hit in June, with the hackers demanding $500 to free up a database of mugshots. Chief Gary Bowen dug in, refused to pay, and never got his department’s files back.

“There was no way we were going to succumb to what felt like terrorist threats,” Bowen said.

As best as law enforcement can tell from the incidents, no data were stolen, nor were details of investigations or other sensitive police matters posted online.

The evil genius of ransomware is that victims are far more likely to pay small amounts to recover crucial data. And if enough people give in, the total can be substantial. Although the virus’s success rate is unknown, a survey of CryptoLocker victims in the United Kingdom by the University of Kent found that 41 percent paid up.

“It’s the old idea that if a million people give a dollar, you have a million dollars,” said Diana Dolliver, a criminal justice professor at the University of Alabama who specializes in cybersecurity.

But in Detroit, hackers in April 2014 demanded the equivalent of $800,000 to unlock a city database they had encrypted. The attack became public in November, when Mayor Mike Duggan told the Detroit News the city had refused to pay because the vandalized database was not being used and did not contain critical information.

“It was a good warning sign for us,” Duggan told the newspaper.

In that case, the attackers demanded payment in bitcoin, a digital currency that is much harder to trace than other forms of money.

Moreover, in the Tewksbury case, hackers demanded that a bitcoin payment be sent through Tor, a technology that makes it very difficult to identify the physical location where the money is received.

Data security experts at Dell Inc. estimate that in a six-month period last year, CryptoWall infected more than 625,000 computers worldwide, including 250,000 in the United States. During that time, the gang that operated CryptoWall raked in about $1 million in ransom payments, according to Dell.

An earlier ransomware program, CryptoLocker, was even more profitable, hauling in between $3 million and $27 million, according to various estimates.

The Tewksbury attack revealed the hydra-like nature of some computer viruses. The Department of Justice declared last summer that an operation to disable CryptoLocker and a related virus had succeeded.

Yet other ransomware viruses have appeared in its place, doing basically the same thing.

“This is very likely a case of one of the many CryptoLocker copycats infecting police departments,” said Kyrksen Storer, spokesman for Fire Eye Inc., a Milpitas, Calif., cybersecurity firm that helped develop an online tool for retrieving files corrupted by CryptoLocker.

The Tewksbury attack featured ransomware called KEYHolder, which is designed to cover its own tracks. Tewksbury authorities sent their infected computer server to the Commonwealth Fusion Center, where Massachusetts State Police work with federal law enforcement agencies on antiterrorism and cybercrime cases. Despite their best efforts, the KEYHolder encryption proved unbreakable.

The department might have refused to pay if it had up-to-date backups of its files. Tewksbury police regularly back up their data, but those files had separately become corrupted and unusable. With no way to crack the code, Sheehan felt he had no choice but to pay to recover his original database.

Computer security analyst Brian Krebs, author of the book “Spam Nation,” said it is no surprise ransomware attacks against police agencies have become public, while those against private companies have not.

“They’re dealing with public funds,” Krebs said. “They can’t hide the fact that they paid the ransom.”

Although most ransomware attacks are sent out by the thousands, Krebs warned that criminals may target specific businesses or government agencies that might be willing to pay larger sums.

“You get inside of a pharmaceutical company or something like that, that has all their net worth tied up in their files,” Krebs said, “they’d be willing to pay a lot more.”

Related coverage:

• 11/19/13: Swansea Police Department pays ransom to computer hackers

Hiawatha Bray can be reached at hiawatha.bray@globe.com.

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Two Maine police departments said they had to pay a ransom to computer hackers to get their police records back. Computers at the Lincoln County sheriff’s office were recently infiltrated by a type of virus called ransomware, which locked up the system. Sheriff Todd Brackett told WCSH-TV that after several attempts to retrieve the records, his agency paid a ransom of about $300 to the creator of the virus to get the files back. Brackett said the FBI helped track the payment to a Swiss bank account, but efforts to identify the hackers got no further. Also in Maine, Houlton Police Department computers were held hostage, and the police chief said the department ended up paying a ransom. (AP)

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(WXYZ) - Hackers have launched a new round of cyberattacks and this time, they're targeting municipalities and police departments.

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one of the latest victims was the Tewksbury Police Department in Massachusetts. Hackers were able to gain access to the department's critical files and lock them. The department received a threatening message that said the files would be inaccessible unless the department paid the hackers $500. If the ransom was not paid, the files would be deleted.

The department decided it was in its best interest to pay the ransom.

Police departments in Illinois, Tennessee and New Hampshire have also fallen victim to the same hackers.

In November 2014, Detroit mayor Mike Duggan revealed hackers had tried the same scam with Detroit earlier in the year.

He said that a database was frozen and held for ransom. It was reported that hackers asked for more than $800,000, but the database that was targeted was no longer being used by the city and the ransom was never paid.

Experts say the best way to keep your information safe from hackers is to backup your files on an external hard drive as often as you can.

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Some Maine police agencies say they have had no other choice than to pay a ransom to computer hackers to get their police records back.

Computers at the Lincoln County sheriff's office were recently infiltrated by a type of virus called ransomware. It locked up the system and held police records hostage.

Sheriff Todd Brackett told WCSH-TV (<a href="http://on.wcsh6.com/1GzeZrY" rel="nofollow">http://on.wcsh6.com/1GzeZrY</a>) that after several attempts to retrieve the records, his agency paid a ransom of about $300 to the creator of the virus to get the files back.

Brackett says the FBI helped track the payment to a Swiss bank account but efforts to identify the hackers got no further.

Also in Maine, Houlton Police Department computers were held hostage and the police chief says the department ended up paying a ransom.

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» On Carter's first Asia trip as Pentagon chief, calm prevails - WWMT-TV
12/04/15 20:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. On Carter's first Asia trip as Pentagon chief, calm prevails WWMT-TV (Eds: APNewsNow. Will be updated. With AP Photos.) By ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer. HONOLULU (AP) -- No...

» Russia's World Cup Organizers Face Budget Headaches - ABC News
12/04/15 20:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from world - Google News. Russia's World Cup Organizers Face Budget Headaches ABC News Saransk's stadium for the 2018 World Cup is supposed to raise the profile of this little-known Russian city, but for now Al...

» Hillary Clinton supporters gather in New York - video
12/04/15 20:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news + Video | The Guardian. Hillary Clinton supporters hold a small rally in New York City on Saturday ahead of her expected presidential campaign launch. The gathering was organised by the grassroo...

» Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign: world's worst-kept secret ends Sunday
12/04/15 20:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Low-key announcement on Twitter, video and email will serve as early test of ‘humble’ Clinton machine after 2008 loss to Obama – and before 2016 barrage Hillary Clinton is pre...

» Video Shows Family In Deadly Brawl With Police
12/04/15 20:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News. The violent encounter, in which one family member was killed, happened after an employee at the store was reportedly shoved.

» Chechen commander in Ukraine drawn into Russian intrigue
12/04/15 20:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top Headlines At 7:16 p.m. EDT. LYSYCHANSK, Ukraine (AP) -- From a dimly lit room at his base in eastern Ukraine, the commander of a battalion of Chechens fighting Russia-backed rebels looked shaken as ...

» Fires Rage In South Siberia
12/04/15 20:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Large fires swept by strong winds have burned more than 100 buildings in Russia's south Siberian region of Khakasia.

» Nine-year-old sex slave is made pregnant by 10 ISIS militants raping her says aid worker
12/04/15 20:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. The pregnant nine-year-old Yazidi girl (not pictured) was 'sexually abused by no fewer than ten men' after being kidnapped by ISIS militants near Sinjar in northwestern Iraq last summer.

» Affable Americas talks see little action
12/04/15 20:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. Despite historic meeting between US and Cuban leaders, region remains mired in distrust

» What to do with Dad: A dilemma for France's Le Pen
12/04/15 20:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. PARIS (Reuters) - The daughter accuses the father of political suicide; the father publicly suspects she would like him dead anyway; and the grand-daughter watches in the wings, ready ...

» ISIS destroys ancient ruins of Nimrud, video shows - CBC.ca
12/04/15 20:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. CBC.ca ISIS destroys ancient ruins of Nimrud, video shows CBC.ca Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants hammered, bulldozed and ultimately blew up parts of the ancient Iraqi A...

» 6 things to know about Hillary Clinton
12/04/15 20:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from OnPolitics. Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the 2014 Massachusetts Conference for Women in Boston on Dec. 4, 2014. (Lisa Lake, Getty Images for Massachusetts Conference for Women) As Hillary Clinton kicks...

» 6 things to know about Hillary Clinton - USA TODAY
12/04/15 20:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. USA TODAY 6 things to know about Hillary Clinton USA TODAY Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the 2014 Massachusetts Conference for Women in Boston on Dec. 4, 2014. (Lisa Lake, Get...

» British expat found dumped at bottom of a well may have been defending his vegetable garden from a leek thief, say French police
12/04/15 20:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. The macabre theory has been outlined by detectives investigating the killing of David King, a 70-year-old pensioner from Newham, east London, who retired to Normandy 15 years ago.

» Isil video shows destruction of 3000-year-old Assyrian city of Nimrud - Telegraph.co.uk
12/04/15 20:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Telegraph.co.uk Isil video shows destruction of 3000-year-old Assyrian city of Nimrud Telegraph.co.uk Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has released a video showing jihadists ...

» Four killed by wildfires in Russia's Siberia: TASS
12/04/15 20:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Four people have been killed by wildfires raging though the grasslands of Russia's Khakassia republic in southern Siberia, the TASS news agency reported on Sunday.

» Albanian Arrested After Israeli Murdered In Berlin – The Yeshiva World
12/04/15 20:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from world news - Google Blog Search. Yeshiva World News ... The Israeli man's body was found in the ruins of the 14th century Church of the Franciscan Monastery, which was destroyed during World War II. The si...

» Saudi Foreign Minister Says His Country 'Not at War With Iran'
12/04/15 20:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Saud Al Faisal says Yemeni president asked Saudi Arabia to intervene in Yemen to protect the legitimacy of the state.

» You're as posh as me! Osborne tells Harman the class attacks 'wear thin' when they both went to the same private school
12/04/15 20:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. For use in UK, Ireland or Benelux countries only Handout photo issued by the BBC of Chancellor George Osborne and Labour Deputy Leader Harriet Harman, appearing on the the BBC1's The An...

» Putin Authorizes US Warplane Shootdown To Protect American Lives
12/04/15 20:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The European Union Times - World News, Breaking News. A new Ministry of Defense ( MoD ) (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Putin has authorized the Black Sea Fleet CCB-201 ...

» Diana Vishneva: ‘It’s not my wish to run the Bolshoi’
12/04/15 20:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Russian dancer Diana Vishneva pirouettes between Moscow and New York – with masseurs on speed-dial around the world. The superballerina tells Judith Mackrell about why she’s w...

» Obama and Castro launch new era of U.S.-Cuba ties
12/04/15 20:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from CNN.com - World. Ending a decades-long standstill in U.S.-Cuba relations, President Barack Obama met for an hour Saturday with his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro, the first time the two nations' top leaders...

» Huge grass fires hit Russia's Khakassia Republic
12/04/15 20:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by ODN. Huge grass fires hit Russia's Khakassia Republic Dry and windy weather have caused devastation accross the remote southern Khakassia Republic as grass fires rage. Report by Simon Longden. F...

» Kerry defends Obama on Cuba and Iran: president acted 'courageously'
12/04/15 20:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Secretary of state reflects on foreign policy in wake of Raúl Castro meeting and week after conclusion of a framework agreement over Iran’s nuclear ambitions Related: Obama in...

» Pope boosts Armenia's efforts to have Ottoman killings recognised as genocide
12/04/15 20:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Pope Francis delivers powerful message by recognising atrocities between 1915 and 1922 as genocide in speech at Vatican on eve of centenary Armenia’s efforts to promote greate...

» Embattled Menendez says he will be 'vindicated' by facts - Burlington County Times
12/04/15 20:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Burlington County Times Embattled Menendez says he will be 'vindicated' by facts Burlington County Times U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, right, arrives at Newark federal court, Thursday,...

» US journalist Jason Rezaian to stand trial in Iran, says news agency
12/04/15 20:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Washington Post reporter, who was detained in Tehran in July 2014, said to be facing espionage charges A Washington Post journalist detained in Iran for more than eight months...

» Report: U.S. Journalist Held in Iran Facing ‘Espionage’ Charges
12/04/15 20:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from TIME. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A Washington Post journalist detained in Iran for over eight months is accused of “espionage” and “acting against national security,” the semiofficia...

» Egypt Muslim Brotherhood verdicts 'blatantly unjust': Human Rights Watch
12/04/15 20:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court's decision to sentence 14 men to death and jail 37 others accused of ties to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood was "politically motivated" and "blatan...

» In 1st interview since indictment, Menendez vows he will be vindicated 'and we ... - Fox News Latino
12/04/15 20:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Fox News Latino In 1st interview since indictment, Menendez vows he will be vindicated 'and we ... Fox News Latino He may emerge from his federal bribery charges bruised and batt...

» Rare Winter Storm Front Hits Israel on Last Day of Yom Tov – The ...
12/04/15 20:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from world news - Google Blog Search. Subscribe to RSS Feed For This Article · Advertisement Options | Contact YW | In the News | Policy | Login/Register | RSS. Copyright 2015; All rights reserved. Websi...

» Embattled Menendez 'not backing off' vote for congressional overview of Iran ... - Fox News
12/04/15 20:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Fox News Embattled Menendez 'not backing off' vote for congressional overview of Iran ... Fox News FILE: Feb. 25, 2013: Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is shown at the Capitol in Wash...

» Brother of China's final emperor who was the last of the Qing dynasty dies in Beijing aged 96
12/04/15 19:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Puren was the youngest brother of Puyi (pictured), who ruled for four years from 1908 until 1912. He died on Friday after being taken to hospital with pneumonia in February, his family ...

» Pakistan's Neutrality on Yemen Draws Allies' Ire
12/04/15 19:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Islamabad fires back on criticism from U.A.E. of its decision to stay out of the Yemen crisis, which is beginning to recast alliances across the Muslim world.

» Kerry on Iran: 'The Deal is What We Said it Was' - NBCNews.com
12/04/15 19:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. NBCNews.com Kerry on Iran: 'The Deal is What We Said it Was' NBCNews.com Secretary of State John Kerry responded Sunday morning to Iranian claims that the United States is mislea...

» Hillary Clinton announces she is running for president in 2016 - video
12/04/15 19:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news + Video | The Guardian. Hillary Clinton announced on Sunday she is running for president of the United States, with the launch of a new campaign website. "Americans have fought their way back fr...

» Hillary Clinton's First Campaign Video Has Español - NBCNews.com
12/04/15 19:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. NBCNews.com Hillary Clinton's First Campaign Video Has Español NBCNews.com A review of the U.S. list of terrorism-sponsoring countries that puts Cuba in company with Iran, Syria and Su...

» U.S. Seeks to Block Iran From Arming Yemen Rebels
12/04/15 19:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. The U.S. is expanding a campaign to ensure Iran doesn’t supply game-changing weapons such as surface-to-air missiles that would threaten Saudi-led airstrikes on the Houthis.

» Chess grandmaster thrown out of tournament and facing 15 year ban after being caught cheating on his smartphone in the toilet
12/04/15 19:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. Gaioz Nigalidze, the current Georgian champion, was expelled from the Dubai Open Chess tournament when he was found using his smartphone in the middle of a match.

» NYPD Officer Likely To Die After Shooting Himself In Brooklyn – The Yeshiva World
12/04/15 19:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Comments on: BREAKING: NYPD Officer Likely To Die After Shooting Himself In Brooklyn. BREAKING: NYPD Officer Likely To Die After Shooting Himself In Brooklyn (Sunday, April 12th, 2015) [VIDEO IN EXTENDED A...

» BREAKING: NYPD Officer Likely To Die After Shooting Himself In ...
12/04/15 19:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from world news - Google Blog Search. Subscribe to RSS Feed For This Article · Advertisement Options | Contact YW | In the News | Policy | Login/Register | RSS. Copyright 2015; All rights reserved. Websi...

» Rock star or butcher? Indian PM Narendra Modi to be met by arena-sized ... - National Post
12/04/15 19:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. National Post Rock star or butcher? Indian PM Narendra Modi to be met by arena-sized ... National Post He's been likened to a rock star or Bollywood celebrity who can draw arena-sized ...

» Clinton to galvanise party’s grassroots
12/04/15 19:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World News. Her vision of middle-class economics will soon take centre stage

» Op-Ed Contributor: The West Must Help Save Yemen
12/04/15 19:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. My country is besieged by pro-Iranian militias. It is in no nation's interest to let them win.

» Report: US Reporter Held in Iran Facing 'Espionage' Charges
12/04/15 19:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A Washington Post journalist detained in Iran for over eight months is accused of ``espionage'' and ``acting against national security,'' the semiofficial Fars news agency reported Sunday...

» Are Russia’s Failed Statelets in Eastern Ukraine Safe Havens for Terrorists?
12/04/15 19:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The InterpreterThe Interpreter. Staunton, April 10 – A great deal of attention has been given to Chechens, Buryats and other non-Russians going to the Donbass to fight for the pro-Moscow “peoples rep...

» Президент Венесуэлы и его жена прибыли на саммит Америк вместе с двойниками (видео) - Today.kz
12/04/15 19:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Today.kz Президент Венесуэлы и его жена прибыли на саммит Америк вместе с двойниками (видео) Today.kz Президент Венесуэлы Николас Мадуро и его жена прибыли на саммит Америк в Панам...

» Obama Upbeat On Final Iran Nuke Deal
12/04/15 19:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. U.S. President Barack Obama says he optimistic a comprehensive nuclear accord to curb Iran's nuclear program will be finalized despite strong words this week from the cou...

» Obama, Maduro Meet for 'a Few Minutes'
12/04/15 19:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Cuban President Raul Castro was not the only Latin American leader to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama at the Americas Summit in Panama. Obama met with Venezuelan President Nicolas...

» Pope Calls Armenian Slaughter '1st Genocide of 20th Century'
12/04/15 19:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Pope Francis on Sunday honored the 100th anniversary of the slaughter of Armenians by calling it "the first genocide of the 20th century,'' a politically explosive pronouncement that will...

» Chechen Commander in Ukraine Drawn Into Russian Intrigue - ABC News
12/04/15 19:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Chechen Commander in Ukraine Drawn Into Russian Intrigue ABC News From a dimly lit room at his base in eastern Ukraine, the commander of a battalion of Chechens fighting Russia -backe...

» Корабль ВМФ России эвакуировал из Йемена 308 человек - Вестник Кавказа
12/04/15 19:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Корабль ВМФ России эвакуировал из Йемена 308 человек Вестник Кавказа Официальный представитель Минобороны России генерал-майор Игорь Конашенков заявил, что корабль ВМФ России "...

» Корабль "Приазовье" эвакуировал из Йемена 308 человек, среди них - 14 украинцев - Mail.Ru
12/04/15 19:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Корабль "Приазовье" эвакуировал из Йемена 308 человек, среди них - 14 украинцев Mail.Ru Корабль Военно-морского флота России «Приазовье» эвакуировал из Йемена 308 человек из 19 стр...

» Moscow at War with Ukraine Goes to Church on Russian Easter
12/04/15 19:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Staunton, April 12 – According to the Russian interior ministry, 1.15 million Muscovites – approximately ten percent of the Russian capital’s population -- atten...

» ВКО: за Россией следит целая группа спутников - Вести.Ru
12/04/15 19:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Вести.Ru ВКО: за Россией следит целая группа спутников Вести.Ru Войска Воздушно-космической обороны России недавно засекли образовавшуюся на орбите для слежки за РФ группировку спу...

» US to Protest 'Unsafe' Interception of Reconnaissance Plane by Russian Fighter ... - Wall Street Journal
12/04/15 19:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Wall Street Journal US to Protest 'Unsafe' Interception of Reconnaissance Plane by Russian Fighter ... Wall Street Journal The U.S. will protest what it called the unsafe interception...

» Obama: Talks With Castro 'Candid and Fruitful'
12/04/15 19:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. President Barack Obama is back in Washington, following arrived home late Saturday, hours after a historic face-to-face meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro and a first meeting w...

» ДНР: Ополченцы отбили танковую атаку на аэропорт Донецка - Российская Газета
12/04/15 19:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Российская Газета ДНР: Ополченцы отбили танковую атаку на аэропорт Донецка Российская Газета Украинские силовики при помощи танков попытались прорваться к аэропорту Донецка. Об это...

» 2015-04-12#Putin
12/04/15 19:32 from Mike Nova - Google+
2015-04-12 #Putin Vladimir Putin praises Orthodox Church for boosting patriotism Vladimir Putin praises Orthodox Church for boosting patriotism by Tom Parfitt Sunday April 12 th , 2015 at 5:52 PM Russian News, All The Latest And Breaki...

» Imprisoned Sochi Environmentalist Begins Hunger Strike
12/04/15 19:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Staunton, April 12 – Yevgeny Vitishko, the environmental activist who is serving a thre...

» Россия планово раскрыла космическую группировку спутников-шпионов - Московский комсомолец
12/04/15 19:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Радиостанция ЭХО МОСКВЫ Россия планово раскрыла космическую группировку спутников-шпионов Московский комсомолец По его словам, специалисты Главного центра разведки космической обст...

» US Defense Secretary Ends Asia-Pacific Tour
12/04/15 19:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter is returning to Washington Sunday after a week-long trip visiting U.S. allies in the Asia-Pacific region. Secretary Carter spent the last day of his Asia...

» МИД РФ обеспокоен тенденцией сближения Швеции и Финляндии с НАТО - ИА REGNUM
12/04/15 18:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. ИА REGNUM МИД РФ обеспокоен тенденцией сближения Швеции и Финляндии с НАТО ИА REGNUM Российская Федерация озабочена сближение Швеции и Финляндии с военным блоком НАТО, а также с те...

» Polish Outrage Over Pro-Putin Bikers' Victory Lap To Berlin
12/04/15 18:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A small group of Russian motorcyclists, including members of the pro-Putin Night Wolves club, are planning a trip from Moscow to Berlin to mark the 70th anniversary of th...

» Saudi Airstrike Targets Rebel Camp in Yemen
12/04/15 18:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Saudi-led air strikes targeting a military camp killed at least eight civilians in the central Yemeni city of Taiz on Sunday, a medical source said, while France's top diplomat offered We...

» Orthodox Christians Celebrate Easter
12/04/15 18:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Orthodox Christians around the world are celebrating Easter Sunday. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his family observed Orthodox Easter services at Volodymyrsky Cathedral in the ...

» No G7 Invite For Putin
12/04/15 18:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be invited to attend the G7 summit of leading industrial nations i...

» Al-Qaeda Confirms Two Leaders Killed In Pakistan This Year
12/04/15 18:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Al-Qaeda's branch in India has confirmed that two of its leaders were killed in U.S. drone air strikes in Pakistan earlier this year.

» Лавров надеется, что Порошенко нейтрализует сторонников войны - Украинское национальное информагентство
12/04/15 18:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Украинское национальное информагентство Лавров надеется, что Порошенко нейтрализует сторонников войны Украинское национальное информагентство Глава МИД РФ Сергей Лавров считает, чт...

» Russia's space defense troops spot foreign spying satellites - RT
12/04/15 18:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. RT Russia's space defense troops spot foreign spying satellites RT This satellite constellation is being developed to carry out communications surveillance of the facilities based ins...

» Петр Порошенко намерен упростить предоставление украинского гражданства россиянам - Коммерсантъ
12/04/15 18:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. ЛІГА.net Петр Порошенко намерен упростить предоставление украинского гражданства россиянам Коммерсантъ Президент Украины Петр Порошенко рассказал о законодательной инициативе, кото...

» Russian Aerospace General Claims to Have Detected Spy Satellites Disguised as Space Junk
12/04/15 18:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Russia has discovered a group of spy satellites gathering Russian communications signals while masquerading as space junk.

» Gunmen Attack South Korea Embassy in Tripoli
12/04/15 18:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Unidentified gunmen fired shots at the South Korean embassy in Tripoli on Sunday killing two local security guards, a South Korean official in Seoul said. The gunmen fired from a car at t...

» Iraq's Leader to Seek Arms With Deferred Payment on US Visit
12/04/15 18:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Iraq's prime minister will seek U.S. President Barack Obama's help to acquire billions of dollars in drones and other U.S. arms to fight the Islamic State group during a U.S. visit next w...

» Германия отказалась пригласить Россию на саммит G7 - BBC Russian
12/04/15 18:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. BBC Russian Германия отказалась пригласить Россию на саммит G7 BBC Russian Министр иностранных дел Германии Франк-Вальтер Штайнмайер в воскресенье отклонил призывы радикальной парт...

» Iran's State TV Says Social Media Accounts Hacked
12/04/15 18:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Iran's Arabic-language state TV network Al Alam said on Sunday its Twitter account had been hacked and a false report was posted that an Iran-allied rebel leader in Yemen had died. Al Ala...

» Vladimir Putin praises Orthodox Church for boosting patriotism
12/04/15 18:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russian news, all the latest and breaking Russia news. Russian president joins Patriarch Kirill for Easter prayers in Moscow cathedral

» US Republicans Continue Attack on Iran Nuclear Deal
12/04/15 18:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Republicans in the United States continue to criticize President Barack Obama's preliminary agreement to restrain Iran's nuclear development program. Mitt Romney, who lost the 2012 presid...

» Putin’s Five-Year Plan for Promoting Patriotism More Militaristic than Soviet Ones Were
12/04/15 18:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The InterpreterThe Interpreter. Staunton, April 12 – Moscow’s new five-year plan for promoting patriotism among the young is not only better financed – spending will more than double – but far more militar...

» World War II Victory ‘New Civic Religion’ in Russia, Polish Commentator Says
12/04/15 18:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The InterpreterThe Interpreter. Staunton, April 12 – Writing in Warsaw’s Gazeta Wyborcza a week ago, Wacław Radziwinowicz argued that Moscow’s victory in World War II has become “the new civic ...

» Expat may have been 'murdered' over stolen vegetables spat
12/04/15 18:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. A British expat, whose body was found at the bottom of a well, may have been killed following a fight over stolen vegetables, French police say.

» As Economic Pressure Mounts, Millions of Russians Edge Toward Poverty
12/04/15 18:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Some experts predict that almost 10 million people - from a population of 143 million - could this year join the 16.1 million people already living below the poverty line.

» Ukraine has a Weak State but a Strong Society, Russia Just the Opposite, Okara Says
12/04/15 18:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The InterpreterThe Interpreter. Staunton, April 12 – Russians laugh at any suggestion that the Ukrainian people came out to the Maidan to make history and insist that they were driven there by Americ...

» Kerry Urges Congress Not To Interfere In Iran Talks
12/04/15 18:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has urged U.S. lawmakers not to interfere in talks aimed at reaching a comprehensive agreement to curb Iran's nuclear activities.

» Ex-Blackwater Guards Face Sentencing in Iraq Case
12/04/15 18:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A yearslong legal fight over a deadly shooting of civilians in an Iraq war zone reaches its reckoning point with the sentencing this week of four former Blackwater security guards. Dustin...

» "Апофеоз войны"
12/04/15 18:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Uploads by Радио Свобода. "Апофеоз войны" Визуальные и смысловые образы гибридной войны на Востоке Украины. Александр Морозов, политолог; Роман Лейб... From: Радио Свобода Views: 262 15 1 0 ratings Time: 5...

» EU antitrust decision on Google ‘soon’
12/04/15 18:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Europe News. Official hints at ‘far-reaching’ steps over search-engine giant accused of abusing leading position

» Russia 'busts foreign satellite spy ring'
12/04/15 18:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russian news, all the latest and breaking Russia news. Head of Russian space command says spy satellites disguised as space junk belonging to unspecified foreign country discovered

» Russia's Gazprom Counting On...Greece? - Forbes
12/04/15 18:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Forbes Russia's Gazprom Counting On...Greece? Forbes Greece's prime minister Alexis Tsipras has stepped up to help Turkey be the new Ukraine. Tsipras and his Energy Minister Panagioti...

» Russia 'busts satellite spy ring': space commander - Yahoo News
12/04/15 18:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Yahoo News Russia 'busts satellite spy ring': space commander Yahoo News Moscow (AFP) - Russia has uncovered a group of spy satellites, the head of its space command said in a film br...

» Ukraine Live Day 419: ‘Renewed Intensive Fighting’ Northeast of Mariupol
12/04/15 18:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The InterpreterThe Interpreter. Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here . An archive of our liveblogs can be found here . For an overview and analysis of this developing s...

» Palestinian Leader Mahmoud Abbas Set to Sign Agreements in Moscow
12/04/15 18:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Moscow Times Top Stories. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is set to meet with President Putin on Monday, an official visit political analysts said will showcase Russia's balancing act in the Middle East.

» Pope Calls Killings of Armenians ‘Genocide,’ Provoking Turkish Anger
12/04/15 18:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. In speaking of the World War I-era slaughter of Armenians, the pontiff upset officials in Turkey, which has argued that a large number of Turks were also killed during that period.

» Civilian Casualties From Afghan Ground Fighting Rise
12/04/15 18:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The United Nations said civilian casualties from ground fighting in Afghanistan rose by 8 percent in the first three months of this year compared to the same period in 2014, and the world...

» Russia Naval Vessel Evacuates Over 300 People From Yemen
12/04/15 18:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A Russian naval vessel has evacuated over 300 people of various nationalities from Yemen's port city of Aden.

» Estonia Calls For Permanent NATO Force
12/04/15 18:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Estonia's President Toomas Ilves has called for a permanent NATO force to be stationed in his country.

» Hillary Clinton Will Run For President
12/04/15 18:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Hillary Clinton says she is running for president in 2016 and wants to be the country's "champion."

» US Journalists Banned from Cuban Press Conference
12/04/15 18:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Cuban security forces escorted out an American journalist crew from a news conference with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez in Panama. Reporter Karen Caballero and cameraman Rudy He...

» Germanwings plane from Cologne-Bonn to Milan evacuated after airline receives bomb threat
12/04/15 18:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from - Europe RSS Feed. A Germanwings plane headed for Milan was evacuated at Cologne-Bonn airport after a bomb threat against the flight was received, the airline said.

» NATO-Russia Cooperation Just 'Shadow From 90s' - Political Activist - Sputnik International
12/04/15 17:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Nato Russia - Google News. NATO - Russia Cooperation Just 'Shadow From 90s' - Political Activist Sputnik International MOSCOW (Sputnik), Alexander Mosesov — The current state of relations between NATO and ...

» Russian Deputy FM On Ties With Georgia, Concerned Over NATO Integration - Eurasia Review
12/04/15 17:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from russia nato - Google News. Eurasia Review Russian Deputy FM On Ties With Georgia, Concerned Over NATO Integration Eurasia Review (Civil.Ge) — Russia's deputy foreign minister, Grigory Karasin, hailed what ...

» Экс-глава НАТО: Россия начнет наступление на востоке Украины через 60 дней - ИА REGNUM
12/04/15 17:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато Россия - Google News. Медийно-новостной портал 24smi.org Экс-глава НАТО : Россия начнет наступление на востоке Украины через 60 дней ИА REGNUM Генерал армии США в отставке и бывший главнокомандующий с...

» Погружение Ближнего Востока в вялотекущий конфликт позволит США заняться наконец ключевым направлением внешней политики Запада ... - Деловая столица (подписка)
12/04/15 17:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. Деловая столица (подписка) Погружение Ближнего Востока в вялотекущий конфликт позволит США заняться наконец ключевым направлением внешней политики Запада ... Деловая столица (подписка) ...

» Гольц: даже символический контингент НАТО в Прибалтике сдержит Россию от агрессии1 - Postimees
12/04/15 17:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. Postimees Гольц: даже символический контингент НАТО в Прибалтике сдержит Россию от агрессии1 Postimees Присутствие даже символического контингента сил НАТО и вооруженных сил США в Балти...

» Ukraine sets sights on joining NATO - Reuters
12/04/15 17:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Nato Russia - Google News. Reuters Ukraine sets sights on joining NATO Reuters KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine, locked in conflict with Russian -backed separatists in its east, on Thursday drew up a new security ...

» НАТО продолжает бряцать оружием в Восточной Европе - Вести.Ru
12/04/15 17:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. Вести.Ru НАТО продолжает бряцать оружием в Восточной Европе Вести.Ru НАТО всё еще продолжает свои учения в Восточной Европе. В данный момент — сразу в трех странах. В Чехии, например, о...

» Болгария ратифицировала договор о размещении в стране батальона связи НАТО - ИА REGNUM
12/04/15 17:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. Novinite.ru Болгария ратифицировала договор о размещении в стране батальона связи НАТО ИА REGNUM Депутаты народного собрания Болгарии на заседании 9 апреля ратифицировали соглашение о р...

» Латвийский Центр коммуникаций НАТО расширяется - ИА REGNUM
12/04/15 17:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. ИА REGNUM Латвийский Центр коммуникаций НАТО расширяется ИА REGNUM Напомним, в Латвии Центр стратегических коммуникаций НАТО под руководством бывшего дипломата Яниса Карклиньша работает...

» СМИ: У НАТО мало вариантов противодействия перевооружению России - Российская Газета
12/04/15 17:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. Российская Газета СМИ: У НАТО мало вариантов противодействия перевооружению России Российская Газета НАТО ограничено в вариантах противодействия перевооружению России. К такому выводу п...

» Армения совместно с НАТО будет обеспечивать безопасность России - политолог - BlackSeaNews
12/04/15 17:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато Россия - Google News. Day.Az Армения совместно с НАТО будет обеспечивать безопасность России - политолог BlackSeaNews «Однако участие Армении привносит совершенно другой контекст. Эти учения, проводим...

» NATO Downsizing Russian Delegation - ABC News
12/04/15 17:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Nato Russia - Google News. www.worldbulletin.net NATO Downsizing Russian Delegation ABC News NATO is downsizing the Russian delegation to the U.S.-led defense alliance, cutting the maximum staff allowed to...

» Plans of Ukraine-NATO psychological warfare against Russia appear online - Pravda
12/04/15 17:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from russia nato - Google News. Pravda Plans of Ukraine- NATO psychological warfare against Russia appear online Pravda Documents about joint plans of Kiev and NATO as well as of military structures of the USA ...

» Russia Complains About NATO Reducing Delegation - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
12/04/15 17:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from russia nato - Google News. U-T San Diego Russia Complains About NATO Reducing Delegation RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksei Meshkov said April 10 NATO's decision to reduce...

» Москва ждет от НАТО пояснений по сокращению делегаций при альянсе - РИА Новости
12/04/15 17:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. РИА Новости Москва ждет от НАТО пояснений по сокращению делегаций при альянсе РИА Новости БРЮССЕЛЬ, 10 апр — РИА Новости, Владимир Добровольский. Россия ждет от НАТО пояснений после пол...

» Россия недовольна решением НАТО сократить число дипломатов РФ - Радио Свобода
12/04/15 17:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато Россия - Google News. Радио Свобода Россия недовольна решением НАТО сократить число дипломатов РФ Радио Свобода Заместитель министра иностранных дел России Алексей Мешков заявил, что решение НАТО умен...

» НАТО почти вдвое сократит дипмиссию России - Вести.Ru
12/04/15 17:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. Вести.Ru НАТО почти вдвое сократит дипмиссию России Вести.Ru Постпред при НАТО Александр Грушко заявил, что Россия ждет от Брюсселя объяснений, тем более что в нормальной дипломатическо...

» Больше половины сотрудников миссии России при НАТО оказались шпионами - Зеркало недели
12/04/15 17:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. Зеркало недели Больше половины сотрудников миссии России при НАТО оказались шпионами Зеркало недели Источник "Коммерсаната" в одной из миссий стран-членов НАТО рассказал, что еще в прош...

» СМИ: Больше половины членов делегации России при НАТО оказались шпионами - УНИАН
12/04/15 17:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. УНИАН СМИ: Больше половины членов делегации России при НАТО оказались шпионами УНИАН По данным издания, комитет гражданской разведки НАТО представил руководству альянса доклад, из котор...

» Постпредство РФ при НАТО значительно сократят: из 71 российского делегата 38 - шпионы - Цензор.Нет (Сатира)
12/04/15 17:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. УНИАН Постпредство РФ при НАТО значительно сократят: из 71 российского делегата 38 - шпионы Цензор.Нет (Сатира) Как сообщает Цензор.НЕТсо ссылкой на российский Коммерсант, The New York ...

» Глава французской разведки: Американцы предоставляли НАТО ложные данные о вторжении России на Украину - Правда.Ру
12/04/15 17:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. Правда.Ру Глава французской разведки: Американцы предоставляли НАТО ложные данные о вторжении России на Украину Правда.Ру Основная проблема НАТО заключается в том, что представители США...

» Dozens of warships join British war games off Scotland - Telegraph.co.uk
12/04/15 17:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Nato Russia - Google News. Telegraph.co.uk Dozens of warships join British war games off Scotland Telegraph.co.uk Britain was last year forced to call in help from Nato patrol planes after a suspected Russ...

» СМИ сообщили о работе в российской делегации при НАТО 38 шпионов - Взгляд
12/04/15 17:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. Взгляд СМИ сообщили о работе в российской делегации при НАТО 38 шпионов Взгляд До этого издание New York Times сообщило, что НАТО решило сократить российскую миссию при альянсе с более ...

» Французский генерал посетовал на доминирование разведки США в НАТО - РБК
12/04/15 17:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. РБК Французский генерал посетовал на доминирование разведки США в НАТО РБК Выступая на заседании комитета по обороне и вооруженным силам французского парламента, глава Управления военн...

» Французский генерал о событиях на Украине: В НАТО прислушиваются в основном к разведке США - Росбалт.RU
12/04/15 17:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. Французский генерал о событиях на Украине: В НАТО прислушиваются в основном к разведке США Росбалт.RU Как мы воюем с Америкой на Украине Простодушный монархист из Питера, кажется, выдал...

» French military intelligence rules out 'Russian invasion plans' for Ukraine - RT
12/04/15 17:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from russia nato - Google News. RT French military intelligence rules out ' Russian invasion plans' for Ukraine RT “ NATO announced that the Russians were about to invade Ukraine. But, according to French intel...

» Минобороны: РФ стремится к равному диалогу по безопасности с ЕС и НАТО - РИА Новости Санкт-Петербург
12/04/15 17:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. РИА Новости Санкт-Петербург Минобороны: РФ стремится к равному диалогу по безопасности с ЕС и НАТО РИА Новости Санкт-Петербург МОСКВА, 11 апр — РИА Новости. Россия стремится поддерживат...

» Ukraine Crisis Nullified All Progress in Russia-NATO Relations - Official - Sputnik International
12/04/15 17:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from russia nato - Google News. RT Ukraine Crisis Nullified All Progress in Russia - NATO Relations - Official Sputnik International MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Ukraine conflict has caused a collapse of all the posi...

» Минобороны назвало причину обострения отношений России и НАТО - РБК
12/04/15 17:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. Минобороны назвало причину обострения отношений России и НАТО РБК Украинский кризис привел к тому, что все позитивное в отношении России и НАТО рухнуло, Североатлантический альянс взял ...

» NATO Gets Faster At Responses Amid Russia's Nuclear War Threats - ValueWalk
12/04/15 17:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Nato Russia - Google News. ValueWalk NATO Gets Faster At Responses Amid Russia's Nuclear War Threats ValueWalk First, it was NATO's voting to provide lethal aid to Kyiv's government to fight off those pesk...

» Минобороны назвало причину обострения отношений России и НАТО :: Политика :: РосБизнесКонсалтинг
12/04/15 17:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from РБК - Все материалы. Замминистра обороны РФ Анатол...

» В Минобороны рассказали о крахе отношений между Россией и НАТО - Lenta.ru
12/04/15 17:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. Lenta.ru В Минобороны рассказали о крахе отношений между Россией и НАТО Lenta.ru 9 апреля американское издание The New York Times сообщило, что в 2014 году из 71 российского делегата ми...

» Россия на фоне ухудшения отношений с НАТО прикроется новым ЗРК Панцирь - Новое Время
12/04/15 17:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато Россия - Google News. Новое Время Россия на фоне ухудшения отношений с НАТО прикроется новым ЗРК Панцирь Новое Время Российская армия на фоне ухудшения отношений с НАТО в 2015 году примет на вооружени...

» Россия - НАТО: полный крах - Утро.Ru
12/04/15 17:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. Утро.Ru Россия - НАТО : полный крах Утро.Ru Сегодня же стало известно, что НАТО попросило постпредство России при альянсе почти вдвое сократить персонал. Об этом пишет "Коммерсантъ". По...

» СМИ: НАТО отвечает России масштабными учениями - Главная | Deutsche Welle
12/04/15 17:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. Главная | Deutsche Welle СМИ: НАТО отвечает России масштабными учениями Главная | Deutsche Welle Однако, в руководстве НАТО , отмечает The Telegraph, не скрывают: целью масштабных манев...

» Клинцевич: курс НАТО на конфронтацию нужен США, но невыгоден для ЕС - РИА Новости
12/04/15 17:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. РИА Новости Клинцевич: курс НАТО на конфронтацию нужен США, но невыгоден для ЕС РИА Новости "Когда мы говорим о конфронтации НАТО , то сегодня парадигма развития событий такова, что про...

» В учениях НАТО в Шотландии принимают участие около 13 тысяч военных - Информационное агентство России ТАСС
12/04/15 17:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. Главная | Deutsche Welle В учениях НАТО в Шотландии принимают участие около 13 тысяч военных Информационное агентство России ТАСС 5 марта замминистра обороны РФ Анатолий Антонов высказа...

» Финляндия предлагает создать экспертную группу по вступлению в НАТО из-за России - Деловой Петербург
12/04/15 17:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. Деловой Петербург Финляндия предлагает создать экспертную группу по вступлению в НАТО из-за России Деловой Петербург При этом идея вступления в НАТО до сих пор не пользуется поддержкой ...

» Moscow Must Continue Work to 'Contain' NATO – Russian Senator - Sputnik International
12/04/15 17:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Nato Russia - Google News. Eurasia Review RT Moscow Must Continue Work to 'Contain' NATO – Russian Senator Sputnik International MOSCOW (Sputnik) — First deputy chairman of the Federation Council's defense...

» НАТО обвиняет Россию в военной поддержке сепаратистов - Главная | Deutsche Welle
12/04/15 17:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. Главная | Deutsche Welle НАТО обвиняет Россию в военной поддержке сепаратистов Главная | Deutsche Welle "Мы наблюдаем продолжающуюся российскую поддержку сепаратистов - военным сна...

» Украина сближается с НАТО - LivDA.ru
12/04/15 17:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. LivDA.ru Украина сближается с НАТО LivDA.ru (12 апреля - LivDA.ru) Такие данные предоставил киевский премьер-министр А. Яценюк. Как он сообщил, украинскую армию нужно реабилитировать, о...

» НАТО подозревает Россию в поставке современных танков в Донбасс - РБК
12/04/15 17:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. РБК НАТО подозревает Россию в поставке современных танков в Донбасс РБК Источник в штаб-квартире альянса немецкой газеты Franfurter Allgemeine Zeitung утверждает, что границу в обе сто...

» НАТО: Россия поставляет в Донбасс тяжелое вооружение - Вести.Ru
12/04/15 17:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато Россия - Google News. Корреспондент.net НАТО : Россия поставляет в Донбасс тяжелое вооружение Вести.Ru Представители НАТО обвинили Россию в увеличении поставок оружия в Донбасс, сообщило немецкое изда...

» В НАТО обвинили Россию в поставках новейших танков на Восток Украины - Росбалт.RU
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mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. В НАТО обвинили Россию в поставках новейших танков на Восток Украины Росбалт.RU piter.tv 51-й оттенок Кехмана Худрук Михайловского театра Кехман может стать фигурантом еще одного уголов...

» В НАТО знают о продолжении поставок РФ вооружений в Донбасс - СМИ - bigmir)net
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mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. bigmir)net В НАТО знают о продолжении поставок РФ вооружений в Донбасс - СМИ bigmir)net С таким заявлением выступило 11 апреля немецкое издание Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, сославшис...

» Ильвес сожалеет: "НАТО уже не та, что в годы холодной войны" - РИА Новости
12/04/15 17:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from нато - Google News. РИА Новости Ильвес сожалеет: " НАТО уже не та, что в годы холодной войны" РИА Новости Несмотря на напряженность, вызванную кризисом на Украине, НАТО не укрепляет внешние рубеж...

» Russia says concerned by Finland, Sweden moves towards closer ties with NATO
12/04/15 16:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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» With Russia in Mind, NATO Tries to Get Faster at Responses
12/04/15 16:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Newsweek. World A man offers a can of beer to a U.S. Army soldier arriving in Ruzyne barracks during the "Dragoon Ride" military exercise in Prague March 30, 2015. David W Cerny/Reuters EINDHOVEN, The Neth...

» Will Or Can NATO Attack Russia?
12/04/15 16:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Comments on: Will Or Can NATO Attack Russia?. While Russia threatens to use its nuclear force against the United States and its allies if NATO moves more forces into the Baltic states or if attempts are ma...

» NATO Makes 1st Tests of Newly Created Rapid Response Force
12/04/15 16:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ABC News: International. NATO is completing a first testing of its new force created to face new challenges from Russia. Some 150 soldiers from the Czech army's 43rd airborne battalion have been training t...

» News: Comments to the media by the NATO Spokesperson on NATO-Russia founding act, NATO Missile defence systems, 06-Apr.-2015
12/04/15 15:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . In view of misleading media reports, this is what NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu actually told a Russian news outlet on Saturday (3 April) in response to a series of questions about the NATO-Russia Founding ...

» News: NATO marks 66th anniversary of the Washington Treaty, 04-Apr.-2015
12/04/15 15:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . On 4 April, 1949, 12 nations signed the Washington Treaty, creating NATO. Since then, the Alliance has grown to 28 members, but the mission has stayed the same: To safeguard the freedom and security of our me...

» Russia’s Threat Will Not Work With NATO Members, Says UK Defence Minister Michael Fallon
12/04/15 15:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from International Business Times AU. Britain's defence secretary Michael Fallon has stated that NATO members like Romania and Britain will not be intimidated by Russia's threats. His comment assumes significan...

» Threatening to use force against a NATO state is unacceptable says Romanian FM
12/04/15 15:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Balkans.com Business News. At the end of last year the Kremlin published a new version of Russia’s military policy, overseen by the country’s President Vladimir Putin. The new policy document i...

» Denmark may face nuclear attack if joins missile shield: Russia
12/04/15 15:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . COPENHAGEN - Russia's ambassador to Denmark said Saturday that the Nato country's navy could be targeted by nuclear missiles if it joins the Western alliance's anti-missile shield. The threat made by Ambassad...

» nato missile defense shield in eastern europe - Google Search
12/04/15 15:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Search Results NATO missile shield in Europe stays, despite understanding over ... RT - Apr 3, 2015 “ NATO won't give up on the missile shield in Europe? ... and the US missile defense installations in ...

» Meet NATO’s new rapid-reaction task force, now in initial training
12/04/15 15:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . As Russian actions across eastern Europe alarmed countries last year, NATO officials at a summit in Wales decided to take a new step : Forming a new military force designed to respond swiftly in the face of t...

» 2015-04-12#NATO
12/04/15 15:28 from Mike Nova - Google+
2015-04-12 #NATO NATO Reassures East European Allies of its Support - Voice of America - Nato News Review NATO Reassures East European Allies of its Support - Voice of America Sunday April 12 th , 2015 at 1:27 PM Nato - Google News 1 S...

» Vladimir Putin Threatens Nuclear War? Russian Officials Angry Over NATO Forces In Ukraine
12/04/15 14:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Inquisitr News. Russian leader Vladimir Putin is reportedly threatening nuclear war in order to force NATO forces out of nations bordering his county. The World War 3 claims were said to have been utte...

» News: NATO's new spearhead force conducts first exercise, 07-Apr.-2015
12/04/15 14:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . NATO completed the first military drills for its new rapid reaction force, on Thursday (9 April 2015). From Tuesday (7 April 2015) through Thursday, more than 1,500 troops took part in exercise “Noble J...

» Feature: NATO's new spearhead force gears up, 02-Apr.-2015
12/04/15 14:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . NATO has a new ‘spearhead force’, known as the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF), which the Alliance has started to test. The VJTF is a brigade that will be able to deploy within 48 hour...

» Obama stiffed NATO: That’s a big deal
12/04/15 14:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WND. You’ve heard it: “If you can keep cool while everybody else is going crazy, maybe you don’t understand the problem.” Welcome now to the mirror opposite. A story that barely mad...

» NATO Reassures East European Allies of its Support - Voice of America
12/04/15 14:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. Voice of America NATO Reassures East European Allies of its Support Voice of America NATO's supreme commander in Europe said that an armored vehicles convoy of U.S. troops crossing east...

» LEADING FROM BEHIND - WND.com
12/04/15 14:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. LEADING FROM BEHIND WND.com Only Fox, that I know of, emblazoned in a headline position in its coverage the story of Obama snubbing the secretary-general of NATO . The world today has m...

» A Newly Assertive Russia Jolts Norway's Air Defenses Into Action - New York Times
12/04/15 14:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. New York Times A Newly Assertive Russia Jolts Norway's Air Defenses Into Action New York Times As a result, he added, he is not too alarmed by increased Russian military activity along ...

» NATO Deploys Twelve A-10s to Romania to Deter Russian Aggression - Military.com
12/04/15 14:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. Military.com NATO Deploys Twelve A-10s to Romania to Deter Russian Aggression Military.com NATO has deployed 12 A-10 Warthog planes to Romania as part of a theater-security effort to co...

» Russia reportedly issues new threat to NATO over forces in Baltics
12/04/15 14:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . March 30, 2015: A supporter shakes hands with a US army soldier as their convoy arrives in Prague, Czech Republic. The 'Dragoon Ride' convoy started from Estonia and passed through Latvia, Lithuania and Polan...

» NATO's new spearhead force gears up
12/04/15 14:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NATO Latest News. NATO has a new ‘spearhead force’, known as the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF), which the Alliance has started to test.

» Vladimir Putin threatens nuclear war to drive Nato out of Baltics and defend ... - Daily Mail
12/04/15 14:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. Daily Mail Vladimir Putin threatens nuclear war to drive Nato out of Baltics and defend ... Daily Mail Notes from the meeting are also The Kremlin officials - who were briefed by Russia...

» Meet NATO's new rapid-reaction task force, now in initial training - Washington Post
12/04/15 14:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. NATO HQ (press release) Meet NATO's new rapid-reaction task force, now in initial training Washington Post As Russian actions across eastern Europe alarmed countries last year, NATO off...

» Russia Threatens Nuclear War To Drive NATO Out Of Baltics
12/04/15 14:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Comments on: Russia Threatens Nuclear War To Drive NATO Out Of Baltics. Russia has threatened to use nuclear force against the United States and its allies if NATO moves more forces into the Baltic s...

» NATO missile shield in Europe stays, despite understanding over 'nuclear Iran ... - RT
12/04/15 14:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. RT NATO missile shield in Europe stays, despite understanding over 'nuclear Iran ... RT Russia's deputy Prime Minister and a former representative of Moscow to NATO , Dmitry Rogozin, wa...

» NATO marks 66th anniversary of the Washington Treaty
12/04/15 14:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NATO Latest News. On 4 April, 1949, 12 nations signed the Washington Treaty, creating NATO. Since then, the Alliance has grown to 28 members, but the mission has stayed the same: To safeguard the freedom a...

» NATO concerned after Russian ships dock in closed naval base in Norway - Daily Mail
12/04/15 14:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. Daily Mail NATO concerned after Russian ships dock in closed naval base in Norway Daily Mail Not since the military and NATO agreed to put it on sale over the Internet, along with photo...

» Comments to the media by the NATO Spokesperson on NATO-Russia founding act, NATO Missile defence systems
12/04/15 14:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NATO Latest News. In view of misleading media reports, this is what NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu actually told a Russian news outlet on Saturday (3 April) in response to a series of questions about the ...

» When NATO isn't enough: Eastern Europeans, fearing Putin and Moscow, seek ... - Chronicle-Telegram
12/04/15 14:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. When NATO isn't enough: Eastern Europeans, fearing Putin and Moscow, seek ... Chronicle-Telegram WARSAW, Poland — NATO aircraft scream across eastern European skies and American armored...

» Comments to the media by the NATO Spokesperson on NATO-Russia founding ... - NATO HQ (press release)
12/04/15 14:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. NATO HQ (press release) Comments to the media by the NATO Spokesperson on NATO -Russia founding ... NATO HQ (press release) Unlike Russia, NATO continues to act in full compliance with ...

» US Navy Destroyer Completes Black Sea Drills With NATO Allies - Sputnik International
12/04/15 14:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. US Navy Destroyer Completes Black Sea Drills With NATO Allies Sputnik International "The exercises are aimed at improving maritime capabilities and reassuring our NATO allies and p...

» Pro-Russian Forces May Challenge Ukraine's Fragile Ceasefire - Here And Now
12/04/15 14:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. Here And Now Pro-Russian Forces May Challenge Ukraine's Fragile Ceasefire Here And Now That's what retired General Wesley Clark, the former supreme commander of NATO thinks. Clark tells...

» Serbia to Stay Out of NATO Despite Broader Cooperation - Sputnik International
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mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. TODAYonline Serbia to Stay Out of NATO Despite Broader Cooperation Sputnik International BELGRADE (Sputnik) — Serbia has no plans to join NATO despite signing an Individual Partnership ...

» Russia Offers Serbia Stronger Military Ties as Counter to NATO - Bloomberg
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mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. Bloomberg Russia Offers Serbia Stronger Military Ties as Counter to NATO Bloomberg Serbia should step up cooperation with the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization to meet...

» Ex-NATO Commander: Russian Offensive “Imminent” In Ukraine - ValueWalk
12/04/15 14:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. ValueWalk Ex- NATO Commander: Russian Offensive “Imminent” In Ukraine ValueWalk The stark warning comes from retired General Wesley Clark, who used to be the head of U.S. and NATO force...

» Armenian Troops Take Part in NATO Drills - Asbarez Armenian News
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mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. Asbarez Armenian News Armenian Troops Take Part in NATO Drills Asbarez Armenian News The Saber Junction 15 exercises organized by the U.S. Army in Europe have brought together more than...

» Russia Could Spearhead Ukraine Offensive Within 60 Days, Former NATO ... - International Business Times
12/04/15 14:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. International Business Times Russia Could Spearhead Ukraine Offensive Within 60 Days, Former NATO ... International Business Times Russian military forces could spearhead a new rebel of...

» Is Russia Really a Threat to NATO? - ISN (blog)
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mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. ISN (blog) Is Russia Really a Threat to NATO ? ISN (blog) Russia's ongoing military modernization program continues to alarm NATO's eastern flank. Over the next five years, Moscow aims ...

» NATO's new spearhead force conducts first exercise
12/04/15 14:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NATO Latest News. NATO completed the first military drills for its new rapid reaction force, on Thursday (9 April 2015). From Tuesday (7 April 2015) through Thursday, more than 1,500 troops took part in ex...

» NATO Exercise Tests How Rapid Reaction Force Is - Wall Street Journal
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mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. Wall Street Journal NATO Exercise Tests How Rapid Reaction Force Is Wall Street Journal EINDHOVEN, Netherlands—When 200 Dutch troops converged on the air force base here this week, it w...

» NATO Makes 1st Tests of Newly Created Rapid Response Force - ABC News
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mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. NATO Makes 1st Tests of Newly Created Rapid Response Force ABC News NATO is completing a first testing of its new force created to face new challenges from Russia. Some 150 soldiers fro...

» Will Or Can NATO Attack Russia? - ValueWalk
12/04/15 14:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. ValueWalk Will Or Can NATO Attack Russia? ValueWalk While Russia threatens to use its nuclear force against the United States and its allies if NATO moves more forces into the Baltic st...

» Russia-NATO rhetoric rises over Romania RAP deployments - IHS Jane's 360
12/04/15 14:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. IHS Jane's 360 Russia- NATO rhetoric rises over Romania RAP deployments IHS Jane's 360 Russia and NATO have exchanged rhetoric recently over NATO RAP reception sites in Romania, as well...

» NATO's new spearhead force conducts first exercise - NATO HQ (press release)
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mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. NATO HQ (press release) NATO's new spearhead force conducts first exercise NATO HQ (press release) NATO completed the first military drills for its new rapid reaction force, on Thursday...

» Ukraine Sets Its Sights on Joining NATO - The Moscow Times
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mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. The Moscow Times Ukraine Sets Its Sights on Joining NATO The Moscow Times KIEV — Ukraine, locked in conflict with Russian-backed separatists in its east, on Thursday drew up a new secur...

» With Russia in Mind, NATO Tries to Get Faster at Responses - Newsweek
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mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. Newsweek With Russia in Mind, NATO Tries to Get Faster at Responses Newsweek EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands (Reuters) - Dutch troops gathered at an air base on Thursday as part of an 11-nat...

» The Arab NATO - Foreign Policy
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mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. Foreign Policy The Arab NATO Foreign Policy Like the NATO command structure, this Arab force will have specified warfighting components: air, sea, land, and special forces. The troops w...

» Two coincidental relationships, Russia-Greece and NATO-Ukraine - Daily Sabah
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mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. Daily Sabah Two coincidental relationships, Russia-Greece and NATO -Ukraine Daily Sabah While Greece is turning away from Europe and looking toward Russia in the hope of finding financi...

» NATO radar aircraft patrol over Eastern Europe and Turkey - Ukraine Today
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mikenova shared this story from nato - Google News. Ukraine Today NATO radar aircraft patrol over Eastern Europe and Turkey Ukraine Today NATO's Airborne Warning and Control System radar aircraft continued routine flights over eastern Eu...

» NATO downsizing Russian delegation - U-T San Diego
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2015-04-11 #Yemen #NewYorkTimes #Aden Yemen's Despair on Full Display in 'Ruined' City - New York Times Yemen's Despair on Full Display in 'Ruined' City - New York Times Saturday April 11 th , 2015 at 5:46 PM Top Stories - Google News ...

» Yemen's Despair on Full Display in 'Ruined' City - New York Times
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mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. New York Times Yemen's Despair on Full Display in 'Ruined' City New York Times ADEN, Yemen — Rooftop snipers have emptied the streets of this dusty seaside city and swelled its h...

» Vatican, France in showdown over gay ambassador - Bangkok Post
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mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. New York Times Review: 'Clinton the Musical' Proves Unimpeachably Amusing New York Times First came the gnashing of teeth over Hillary Clinton's private email account, and her so...

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» Obama seeks to re-engage with Latin America at summit
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» Serial bride recalls only 2 of her 10 husbands - New York Post
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» Islamic State attacks Iraqi provincial capital
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mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State militants attacked the capital of Iraq's vast Anbar province on multiple fronts on Friday, seizing two areas on the city outskirts in a setback for a ...

» The Night Wolves and the new Russian nationalism - ABC Online
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» Were Lincoln and Nixon gay? The ‘history’ book that is dividing America
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» Father, brother, uncle arrested after Indian teen alleges years of rape
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» News analysis: Pakistan opts for neutral stance in Yemen conflict - Xinhua
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» U.S., allies conduct air strikes in Syria and Iraq: U.S. military
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mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces have targeted Islamic State militants with eight air strikes in Syria and nine in Iraq since early on Friday, the U.S. military said on Saturday.

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» What Saudi Arabia wants in Yemen - CNN
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» Ambiguities over sanctions removal must be resolved: Iran commander
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» Civilians killed in Aleppo as rebels and state forces launch fresh attacks
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» Iran commander: Framework nuclear deal respects Iran's red lines - Ynetnews
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» American Sentenced to Life in Prison in Egypt After Participating in Protests
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» Turkey mobilises troops to border region after clash with Kurdish militants
11/04/15 18:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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» What's Really Behind The War In Yemen? - Huffington Post
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» Report: Pakistan rejected Iran offer to join anti-Saudi coalition in Yemen - Ynetnews
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» Главком сил обороны Финляндии не увидел в России значимой угрозы - РБК
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