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President Obama announced that he will be slowing his planned drawdown of U.S. troops on the ground in Afghanistan. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
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US President Barack Obama has announced the country will reverse its policy in Afghanistan. A new plan will see 5,500 US soldiers stay in Afghanistan after 2016. With this decision, the USA is reacting to the Taliban offensive of recent months.
Russian Pollster: Kremlin Nurtures Rising Anti-Americanismby webdesk@voanews.com (Victor Vasiliev)
Russians continue to characterize their country's relations with the United States negatively. The latest survey by Russia's biggest remaining independent polling organization, the Levada Center, found that a majority of the population believes U.S.-Russia relations are either "tense" (45%) or "hostile" (29%). The poll was conducted in early October 2015 among 1,600 people in 46 of Russia’s 85 regions. Anti-American sentiment in Russia has been rising...
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Iran is intensifying its presence in Syria, sending hundreds of elite troops into the country in support of the regime of embattled President Bashar al-Assad. Tehran dispatched the troops into northern and central Syria, where they joined fighters from Iran's Lebanese ally, Hezbollah, to take advantage of an extensive Russian aerial bombardment against rebels fighting Syrian forces. Russia said Thursday it launched 33 new sorties in Syria, the latest strikes in its two-week-old air...
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A recent special operation in Grozny against suspected militants of the so-called Islamic State (IS) took Chechnya’s residents and analysts who follow the situation in the republic by surprise. Readers of Chechen ruler Ramzan Kadyrov’s Instagram postings were the first to learn about the incident. For several years now, Kadyrov has used Instagram to communicate with the public. An Instagram posting he published on October 8 said that “the forces of the Interior Ministry, the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Terek special police unit have neutralized three terrorists at the edge of Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny. We had determined that three militants who had been trained in the camps of the ‘Iblis State’ arrived in the republic” (Ramzan Kadyrov calls the IS the “Devil State”) (Instagram.com, October 8).
According to Kadyrov, the special police unit attempted to arrest one of the suspects near an apartment where his two accomplices were waiting for him. However, the suspect started to shoot at the law enforcers and was killed, Kadyrov wrote. The storming of the apartment where the two other young Chechen suspects were took another hour. The suspects reportedly refused to surrender and were killed. The slain militants were identified as 25-year-old Shamil Chergizov, 26-year-old Zelimkhan Bashanaev, and 25-year-old Magomed Mazaev. News agencies used the name Aslan Baisultanov instead of Bashanaev (TASS, October 8).
According to news reports, three servicemen were injured during the special operation. “Shamil Chergizov was the leader of the gang,” a Chechen interior ministry official was quoted as saying. “He recently returned from Syria. The two other members of the gang—Magomed Mazaev and Zelimkhan Bashanaev—were also members of illegal armed formations. Chergizov was armed with a Stechkin automatic pistol and started shooting at the servicemen, wounding two of them, and was killed by return fire” (Kavkazsky Uzel, October 9).
According to investigators, two of the three suspects, Magomed Mazaev and Shamil Chergizov, were on the Russian federal wanted list, but not on Interpol’s list, as Ramzan Kadyrov had alleged (Kavkazsky Uzel, October 9). Kadyrov claimed that when the apartment was searched after the special operation, government agents found TNT, ammonium nitrate, mines, grenades, machine guns and telephones (Kavkazsky Uzel, October 9).
Kadyrov also asserted that the group planned a terrorist attack on October 5, but that Chechen law enforcement officials “took all the necessary preventive steps, which yielded good results” (TASS, October 8). It is unclear how they were preparing for a terrorist attack on October 5, which is the Day of Grozny holiday, or on October 7, which is President Vladimir Putin’s birthday, if they did not even have their bomb ready. If the suspects came from Syria, they should have been interested not so much in carrying out terrorist attacks, as in setting up a cell and making connections to the remaining rebels in the forests and mountains of Chechnya. Former militants of the Caucasus Emirate pledged allegiance to the Islamic State last summer.
Nevertheless, the news of this incident is interesting in another way. Reports about fighters returning from Syria to Dagestan (see EDM, October 2) were soon followed by reports that people who had fought in Syria under the banner of the Islamic State had appeared in Chechnya. People in Chechnya started talking about a group of militants who had arrived in the republic from Syria at the end of July–beginning of August. At that time, the Chechen authorities, including Ramzan Kadyrov, dismissed those claims as rumors, and Kadyrov insisted that heightened security on the republic’s highways was intended to ensure road safety. “We were forced to intensify the activities of the road police to reduce accidents and deaths on the roads,” Chechnya’s governor said (Rg.ru, August 20). Few people believed this explanation, although locals do worry about the lack of road access. Residents of the republic tried to reassure themselves, recalling that the government always steps up security as holidays approach. At the time, Chechnya was gearing up for celebrations on August 23, marking the birthday of Ramzan Kadyrov’s father, Ahmad-Haji Kadyrov.
The arrests of suspected militants who received training in Syria and their supporters helped to fuel the rumors about the infiltration of militants from the Middle East into Chechnya. Prior to the latest special operation in Grozny, Kadyrov claimed the authorities had arrested three IS members. “One of them was a beginner and two were sympathizers,” Kadyrov said (Ridus.ru, October 2).
Following the incident in Grozny, Kadyrov summoned officials from his administration and republican religious leaders and ordered them to work to expose the criminal ideology of the Islamic State.
The Islamic State poses a danger to the region not because it seeks to connect with local militants who switched their allegiances from the Caucasus Emirate to the IS. The IS has mass appeal for the entire Muslim population of the region. The Caucasus Emirate’s goal was to build an Islamic state in the Caucasus, but the IS organization proposes building an Islamic state for all the world’s Muslims, not just those in the Caucasus.
The special operation in Grozny has exposed the challenge that the Islamic State poses to the government of Russia, but Moscow does not appear ready for it.
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The Russian air bombing campaign in Syria began on September 30, with about 20 sorties a day. The bombing drastically increased on October 8, to over 60 sorties and reached 88 on October 13. The Russian mixed air task force deployed last month at a newly established airbase near Latakia has, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD), over 50 jets and helicopters, but most of them are relatively short range, designed primarily for battlefield close air support. The Russian jets in Syria went into action in earnest only when the forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad began an offensive in northern Syria, primarily in the Hama and Idlib provinces (Vedomosti, October13).
In Russia, midair refueling is performed on a regular basis only by Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic long-range bombers. Russian helicopters and most fixed-wining jets have no air refueling capability. The backbone of the Russian forces in Syria—the 12 Su-24M bombers and the 12 Su-25SM attack jets—are not designed to refuel in midair. The new Su-30CM fighter-bombers and multipurpose Su-34 bombers have the capacity, but their pilots are most likely not well trained to refuel in mid-air. Russia has only a handful of Il-78 air tankers, and none have been deployed in the Middle East. The effective combat range of the Su-25SM jets with a full payload is 230 kilometers; they cannot reach Rakka—the main Islamic State (IS) base in Syria. The Su-24M has a 560-km combat range and the capacity to cover most of the territory of northern Syria up to the Iraqi border. The Su-34 has a bigger range with a full payload—some 1,000 km. The Su-30SMs are being used as air superiority fighters (Kommersant, October 1).
From Latakia, on the Mediterranean coast, Russian jets cannot perform effective air operations in northern Iraq against IS targets—only the six Su-34s can reach this area, but for them this could be a high-risk deployment. Some 14 attack and transport helicopters are also based in Latakia and a special forces (Spetsnaz) team stands ready to perform search-and-rescue operations if any Russian aircraft goes down in action, but they also cannot reach northern Iraq. If the Kremlin decides to extend its air operations in the region to cover Iraq, an additional base would need to be established, possibly close to Baghdad. This would take time and effort to establish, and additional assets would have to be deployed in the region. It is unclear whether Moscow is ready to do that, even if the Shia-dominated Iraqi leadership requests Russian military assistance (Newsru.com, October 5).
In an interview aired on October 11, on the state TV channel Rossya-1, President Vladimir Putin insisted Russia will not become involved in ground combat in Syria and “will not take on additional obligations.” But Russia will act in close coordination with the “Syrian authorities” for “as long as the Syrian army continues its offensive operations.” The main Russian objective in Syria, according to Putin, is to support al-Assad’s forces, to push back the opposition and “terrorists,” as well as to “stabilize the lawful authorities to create the conditions for a political compromise.” Putin insisted it is impossible to negotiate a political compromise “while the Syrian authorities [al-Assad] are besieged in their capital.” According to the Russian president, the “stabilization” of the al-Assad regime may be “surely achieved by military means.” To achieve that goal, continued Putin, “We massed supplies, munitions and forces in a designated location [Latakia]” and created a coordination center in Baghdad, uniting Iran, Shia-dominated Iraq, al-Assad’s Syria and Russia. “What is happening in the air and on the ground [in Syria] was preplanned,” insisted Putin, “These are not spontaneous actions” (Kremlin.ru, October 11).
During daily press briefings in Moscow, MoD officials boast about the effectiveness of the Russian bombing campaign. Footage of air munitions hitting designated targets is displayed, and Russian generals insist the Syrian opposition forces, jihadists and apparently non-jihadists (all “terrorists,” according to the MoD) are in disarray; their command structures, heavy weapons and munitions dumps are destroyed by Russian air attacks (Syria.mil.ru, October 12). The Russian press and TV channels are lauding the successful advance of al-Assad’s forces; but some Russian defense ministry–connected experts warn that al-Assad’s troops are pushing their advance too slowly, not following the Russian air strikes with immediate aggressive action (Mk.ru, October 11). Al-Assad’s forces’ successes are seen as marginal: They are advancing only 2–3 km a day. A decisive thrust north to smash the Syrian opposition and reach the Turkish border is not happening. If, in the coming two to three weeks, al-Assad’s forces and their allies fail to achieve a significant breakthrough, Moscow may be forced to reconsider its military commitment in Syria and possibly contemplate a gradual termination of engagement (Vedomosti, October12).
According to a recent poll by the independent pollster Levada-Tsentr, the Kremlin-promoted anti-American propaganda campaign is effective: The United States is hated or otherwise seen negatively by a vast majority (71 percent) of Russians, and this number is growing as the Syrian crisis develops. Only 4 percent see the US positively. Some 75 percent of Russians believe the United States, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom are Russia’s enemies “that strive to fix their problems to Russia’s detriment and harm Russian interests anytime they can.” Only 17 percent believe Russia and Western powers have common interests in fighting terrorism, addressing ecological disasters and developing science (Rbc.ru, October 14).
Despite this massive public anti-Americanism and Putin’s bravado, the prospect of becoming involved in a costly Cold War–style proxy war with the US in the Middle East seems frightening. Putin apparently lacks a clear exit strategy in Syria, if al-Assad’s ground offensive continues to falter. Speaking at an investment conference in Moscow this week, Putin delivered another anti-US broadside, but then offered to work in Syria together: “We are ready to send to Washington a high-level delegation headed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to discuss Syria, to work together and find solutions” (Kremlin.ru, October 13). A day later, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov complained in the State Duma: “The Americans refused to send a top delegation to Moscow to discuss Syria and declined to receive a delegation led by Medvedev.” According to Lavrov, Washington agrees to discuss only purely military measures to avoid midair clashes between US and Russian aircraft (Interfax, October 14).
Russia’s big Middle East power play notwithstanding, ultimately the fighters on the Syrian battlefields will decide the outcome. From the beginning, the Syrian crisis has had its own momentum, which outside powers could influence, but not control.
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Russia and its proxy forces have engaged in a systematic campaign in the last year to abuse religious minorities in Ukraine, according to a new report and accounts that have garnered scant attention in the Western press.
In its annual report on International Religious Freedom, released Wednesday, the Department of State said that conditions for religious minorities deteriorated in the parts of eastern Ukraine controlled by Russian-backed separatists, as well as in the Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea. Russia seized Crimea in March 2014, and Western nations have accused the Kremlin of backing the Ukrainian separatists in a conflict that has killed more than 8,000 people since last April.
“In the areas they control, the separatists have kidnapped, beaten, and threatened Protestants, Catholics, and members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, as well as participated in anti-Semitic acts,” the report said.
The separatists formed two “people’s republics” last April in Donetsk and Luhansk and declared in the constitution that the primary religion would be the “Christian Orthodox faith … practiced by the Russian Orthodox Church.” All other religions, including separate Christian denominations, appear to have been targeted.
Armed assailants in Donetsk, calling themselves the Russian Orthodox Army, abducted Tykhon Kulbaka, a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, last July.
According to the report, “His captors reportedly subjected him to repeated mock executions and took away his medication, threatening him with a ‘slow death’ unless he joined the Russian Orthodox Church. He also sustained physical injuries before his release July 14.”
Donetsk authorities also detained Fr. Pawel Witek, a Roman Catholic priest, last May and accused him of being a sniper. The separatists blindfolded him, tied his arms and hands, and guarded him in a basement before eventually releasing him.
Other churches that were targeted include God’s Church of Ukraine, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists, and a variety of Protestant denominations.
In a statement last July, the heads of the Evangelical Protestant Churches of Ukraine said that militants had subjected their members to “abduction, beating, torture, murder threats, and damage to houses of worship, seizure of religious buildings, and damage to health and private property of the clergy.”
One pro-Russian group also placed anti-Semitic pamphlets near the Donetsk synagogue and threatened to force Jews to register with a local commissioner and pay a fee.
Russia’s occupation authorities used “harassment, intimidation, detentions, and beatings” against members of minority Christian denominations and Muslim Tatars, the report said. Russian forces prevented some priests from entering their churches, raided mosques, and sponsored a new Muslim organization to supplant the local leadership body for Tatars.
In one incident last June, unmarked Russian forces stormed into a Ukrainian Orthodox Church and “verbally abused the parish priest and beat his pregnant wife and daughter, who suffered from cerebral palsy.”
“The occupation authorities refused to investigate the incident,” the report said. “The church was since closed.”
Authorities also denied residency permits to Turkish imams within the Tatar community and priests in the Greek Catholic Church.
President Vladimir Putin, who has formed a close alliance with the Russian Orthodox Church claiming to be a defender of traditional values, has denied sending troops and weapons to support the separatists in Ukraine. However, reports indicate that, despite a recent lull in fighting between Ukrainian forces and the separatists, Moscow has continued to supply the latter with advanced weapons systems such as a multiple rocket launcher.
President Obama has decided against providing lethal arms to Ukrainian forces despite recommendations from Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Ash Carter, and other top Obama administration officials. Advocates say that bolstering Ukraine could help convince Putin to withdraw his support for the separatists as Russian casualties mount. Increased U.S. support could also offer a reprieve to religious minorities that have suffered under Russian occupation.
However, Obama has appeared unwilling to confront Putin’s military ambitions, whether in Ukraine or in Syria. Russia has launched hundreds of airstrikes in recent days to prop up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a brutal leader whom Obama has called on to step down.
“The optics are that we’re backing off,” a former Obama official told Politico. “It’s not like we can’t exert pressure on these guys, but we act like we’re totally impotent.”
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U.S. special operations analysts were analyzing a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, days before it was destroyed in an airstrike amid suspicions it was the site of a Pakistani operative helping the Taliban organize.
It remains unknown whether the U.S. commanders who launched the airstrike knew the target was a hospital.
The Associated Press reported:
The special operations analysts had assembled a dossier that included maps with the hospital circled, along with indications that intelligence agencies were tracking the location of the Pakistani operative and activity reports based on overhead surveillance, according to a former intelligence official who is familiar with some of the documents describing the site. The intelligence suggested the hospital was being used as a Taliban command and control center and may have housed heavy weapons. After the attack—which came amidst a battle to retake the northern Afghan city of Kunduz from the Taliban—some U.S. analysts assessed that the strike had been justified, the former officer says. They concluded that the Pakistani, believed to have been working for his country’s Inter-Service Intelligence directorate, had been killed.
The airstrike, which was ordered by Afghan forces on Oct. 3, killed 22 people at the medical facility run by Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières. The charity has harshly blamed the U.S. for the incident, calling it a war crime.
Gen. John Campbell, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said days after that the U.S. “mistakenly” launched the airstrike and confirmed that the U.S. chain of command approved it.
The Pentagon initially said that the airstrike was launched to protect U.S. troops. Afghan forces claimed that Taliban fighters were firing at them from the hospital’s grounds.
The Pentagon is currently conducting an investigation into the incident.
The post US Analysts Were Gathering Intel on Afghan Hospital for Suspected Taliban Activityappeared first on Washington Free Beacon.
Newsletter
October 15, 2015
Author: Simon Saradzhyan, Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: US-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism
Belfer Center Experts Call for U.S.-Russian Cooperation against ISIS and Assess Iran deal; Graham Allison Briefs National Security Fellows on Threat of Nuclear Terrorism; Moldovan Authorities and FBI Have Interrupted Four Nuclear Smuggling Attempts; Last HEU Removed From Uzbekistan; and Russia Conducts a Nuclear Terrorism Exercise.
Headlines of the July-September 2015 issue of the U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism Newsletter:
- Moldovan Authorities and FBI Have Interrupted Four Nuclear Smuggling Attempts.
- Belfer Center Experts Call for U.S.-Russian Cooperation against ISIS.
- U.S. Deposits Instrument for Ratification of Nuclear Terrorism Convention.
- U.S. and Russian Leaders Urge International Cooperation against ISIS, But Act Separately.
- Rosatom Launches MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility, Trumpets Spent Fuel Removal.
- Last HEU Removed From Uzbekistan.
- Russia Conducts a Nuclear Terrorism Exercise.
- NNSA and FBI Continue Exercises Designed To Respond To Radiological Terrorism.
- Norway and Russia to Notify Each Other of Nuclear Incidents.
- Russia Increases Financing of Its IAEA Commitments.
- GAO Evaluates Department of Energy’s Effort to Secure Nuclear Materials.
- NNSA Makes Jamaica HEU-Free.
- Hackers Staged 18 Successful Attacks on NNSA Computer Systems in 2010-2014.
- Hans Kristensen on Security Upgrades at Two NATO Nuclear Bases.
- NATO Warns That Threat of WMD Terrorism Is Real.
- USG Official’s Book Claims World Is Not Prepared for Nuclear Terrorist Attack.
- Only Global Cooperation Can Prevent Nuclear Terrorism.
- Nunn: Islamic State May Have Acquired Enough Material to Build Dirty Bomb.
- Nuclear Fuel Bank Established in Kazakhstan.
- Doubt Cast on Reports of Pro-Russian Rebels in Ukraine Building Dirty Bomb.
- Report: Savannah River MOX Facility Would Cost Hundreds of Millions to Complete.
- Graham Allison Briefs National Security Fellows on Threat of Nuclear Terrorism.
- U.S. Disaster Management Expert: America Not Prepared For a Nuclear Attack.
- Matthew Bunn and Nicholas Roth on Threat of Nuclear Terrorism.
- U.S. Ratifies Amendment to Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material.
- Belfer Center Experts and Siegfried Hecker Assess Iran Deal.
- Russia Builds Repository for Special Radioactive Waste.
- Italian Police: Suspected Supporters of Islamic State Planned to Attack Nuclear Base.
- Rosatom Boost Sales of Security and Physical Protection Systems.
For more information about this publication please contact the The US-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism at 617-496-0518.
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October 15, 2015
Belfer Center Experts Call for U.S.-Russian Cooperation against ISIS and Assess Iran deal; Graham Allison Briefs National Security Fellows on Threat of Nuclear Terrorism; Moldovan Authorities and FBI Have Interrupted Four Nuclear Smuggling Attempts; Last HEU Removed From Uzbekistan; and Russia Conducts a Nuclear Terrorism Exercise.
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said he was grateful for President Barack Obama's plan to keep the current 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan through most of next year and 5,500 when he leaves office in 2017. (Oct. 15)
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Air Berlin to Stop Flying to Russia by The Moscow Times
Air Berlin, the budget German airline, will end flights to and from Russia next year, becoming the latest international carrier to stop flying to the country amid a slump in demand.
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Russia Says Fewer Air Strikes in Syria by By Howard Amos
Disarray among the Islamic State terrorist organization has prompted a decrease in the number of sorties being flown by Russian jets in Syria, the Defense Ministry said Thursday.
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Nationwide FBI Sex Sting Nabs 150 Pimps, Rescues 149 Underage Victims
The Root "When kids are treated as a commodity in seedy hotels and on dark roadsides, we must rescue them from their nightmare and severely punish those responsible for that horror," FBI DirectorJames Comey said in a statement. CBS News notes that the ... and more » |
The White House expressed skepticism Thursday about reports that the Cuban military is cooperating with Syria in its brutal civil war.
"Let me just state unequivocally we've seen no evidence to indicate that those reports are true," said White House press secretary Josh Earnest.
A Miami-based research group said this ...
A Connecticut couple has pleaded guilty to distributing heroin aboard a Virginia-based aircraft carrier.
The air strikes appear to have failed to give an advantage to pro-Assad military forces despite daily launches
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Jeb Bush's fundraising pace drops sharply in third quarter
Washington Post Jeb Bush, whose early fundraising proficiency quickly became a defining feature of his campaign for president, collected contributions at a drastically slower pace during the third quarter of the year, bringing in just $13.38 million between July and ... Hispanic Leaders Break With Party Conservatives, Line Up With BushNBCNews.com Bush fundraising slows as his polls dropThe Hill (blog) Jeb Bush raises more than $13 million for third quarterTampabay.com (blog) Huffington Post -Chicago Sun-Times -Politico all 68 news articles » |
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President Obama, with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., announced a halt to United States troop withdrawal from Afghanistan on Thursday at the White House.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Turkey demanded on Thursday that the European Union start easing restrictions on Turks traveling to the EU next year if it wants cooperation to stem the flow of Syrian refugees and other migrants to Europe.
Before greeting Korean President Park Geun-hye at the Naval Observatory, Vice President Joe Biden encountered a few reporters eager for an update on a possible 2016 White House bid
Federal prosecutors say a Maryland man who offered national-security commentary on Fox News has been charged with fraud for falsely claiming a CIA career.
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Fox News Regular Indicted Over Allegedly Bogus CIA Past
TPM A frequent guest on Fox News claimed he worked 23 years for the CIA but in fact never worked for the agency, according to a federal indictment announced Thursday. Wayne Shelby Simmons was arrested following his indictment by a federal grand jury for ... |
Shia militiamen in Iraq dropped off an American-supplied Abrams tank at a US-supported repair facility where workers were surprised to find an attached Russian machine gun plus Iranian ammo, Defense News has learned.
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Containing The Putin Syndicateby support@pangea-cms.com (Brian Whitmore)
Russia's aggressive international posture over the past couple years has led a number of Kremlin-watchers and policy analysts to call for the revival of the Cold War policy of containment. But what does that mean in today's globalized world?
Russia 'tried to cut off' World Wide Web by Roland Oliphant
A failed experiment to cut Russia from the World Wide Web stokes fears of Chinese-style online censorship
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LONDON (AP) -- Researchers say some smaller, poorer nations are now using spy software, suggesting that recent data leaks and lawsuits have not deterred governments from investing in off-the-shelf cyberespionage products....
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