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Media: Russia financed anti-Ukrainian groups in Poland
Belarusian Alexander Usovsky received 100 000 Euro from Russia in order to finance the activity of anti-Ukrainian groups in Poland. The amount was uncovered by the Ukrainian hacker groups CyberHunta and Cyber Alliance, Gazeta Wyborcza writes.
According to the newspapers’s source, the hackers hacked Usovsky’s email and gained complete access to his personal correspondence with Russian officials and the leaders of Polish nationalist groups.
“This was the first concrete evidence that Russia is …
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Russia begins to upgrade its navy base in Syria
Russia has started to upgrade the Russian naval base in Syrian Tartus, announced Viktor Ozerov, chairman of the defense committee in the Federation Council, as reported by Interfax.
“As far as Tartus is concerned, I won’t conceal the fact that even during our visit (of Russian senators in Syria in October 2016) I was shown a development plan for the port where facilities and docks would be built. This work has already been prepared, and today it is being put into action,” he said.
When asked …
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Ukrainian President wants to meet with Trump before Putin
Diplomats are working to organize a soon forthcoming meeting between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his American counterpart Donald Trump, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Konstantin Yeliseyev said on Friday, March 10, in an interview with hromadske.ua.
"Currently, our diplomats are actively working to ensure that this meeting will be held as soon as possible. But it is fundamentally important that it take place before the upcoming meeting between President …
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Social media users report the death of another Russian soldier in Syria
Another Russian soldier was killed in Syria, as reported by Russian blogger from St Petersburg, Anatoly Nesmiyan, also known under the alias “el murid”.The post on Nesmiyan’s LiveJournal page points to VKontakte (Russian social network ) post with the picture of the killed soldier and the details of the incident.
The soldier, 39-year-old Alexander Zangiev, native of the city of Krasnodar, was killed in the explosion when the armored personnel carrier, he was in, hit a road side bomb. A few …
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Russia reveals the cause of aircraft accidents on Admiral Kuznetsov during its Syrian operation
The cause of the crashes of two deck-based fighters on the only Russian aircraft-carrying cruiser, the Admiral Kuznetsov, during the campaign in Syria in 2016 was the breakage of an arresting cable. RIA Novosti reported that there are no concerns about the aircraft, citing a source in Russia's defense industry.
"In the case of the loss of the MiG-29K, the cable broke off due to the fact that the aircraft landed on the deck below the critical angle. The landing of the Su-33 occurred properly, …