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Former DPR leader Girkin: Russian ruling elite decided to freeze the conflict in Donbas to protect themselves from sanctions
In an interview with RusDay news outlet, former separatist commander Igor Strelkov (Girkin) stated that the Russian ruling elite, which initiated the annexation of the Crimea and have considered creating Novorossia (separatist republics in the Donbas) decided to freeze the military operations in the Donbas because of the personal sanctions imposed by the US and the West.
He believes that those in Moscow who made decisions regarding the Crimea and the Donbas did not take into account the …
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Russia claims that ISIS generates revenue through online casinos
Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya said that the Islamic State uses online casinos to generate revenue, reports Interfax.
"They improve their skills in modern technologies. For example, in one of the neighboring Syria countries, the accomplices of the terrorists are stealing the money of ordinary citizens through fake online shops. The fighters of the ‘Caliphate’ do not shun earnings from online casinos either," Nebenzya said.
According to him, thanks to the actions …
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Russian nuclear center engineers caught mining Bitcoins on a supercomputer
As Telegram channel “Mash” reports, Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers arrested engineers of a secret nuclear center in Sarov, who tried to mine a Bitcoin on a supercomputer. The computer did not have internet access but the culprits solved this problem by connecting to the internal network.
Employees of the nuclear safety control department quickly detected the connection of new devices to the network and apprehended the two engineers, who were immediately turned over to FSB …
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Ukrainian President signs decree on measures to counter Russian information aggression
President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree to enact a new decision by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) that includes additional measures to counter information aggression by Russia.
Decree No. 25/2018 was published on the President's website on February 9, though the measures were marked “for internal use” and not made public.
The NSDC meeting during which these measures were put under consideration occurred on January 26.
On February 5, Poroshenko enacted the NSDC’s …
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Each day Syria becomes a more complicated battleground with everybody fighting everybody
While Russia was paying tribute to the deceased pilot Roman Filipov, a sharp escalation in the armed conflict began in Syria. Judging by the reports in the Russian, US and Arabic media, the forces loyal to Russia’s ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad decided to attack the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Assad’s partners were reportedly trying to capture a gas fields controlled by SDF.
They did not have to wait long for the US response. As reported by the press service of the Operation …