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Russian Minister of Defense: Russia controls the situation in Syria with the help of drones
The Russian Armed Forces are controlling the situation in Syria by using drones, as stated by Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu during a press conference at the National Defense Management Center of Russia. The transcript was published on the Ministry's website.
"Thanks to unmanned aircraft, we have complete control over the whole Syrian territory," Shoygu said.
According to him, since the beginning of 2018 militants began to "widely use" unmanned aerial vehicles against Russian facilities in …
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister calls the meeting between US representative Volker and Putin's aide Surkov fruitless
At a joint briefing with the Italian Foreign Minister, OSCE Chairman Angelino Alfano in Kyiv, Pavlo Klimkin, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, said that the last meeting of Kurt Volker, US State Department Special Representative, and Russian Presidential Assistant Vladislav Surkov was fruitless, Ukrinform reports.
"I am in constant contact with our American friends and allies. Several times I spoke with Kurt Volker before meeting with Surkov and yesterday too. Unfortunately, during …
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Russia calls Kremlin List an effective breach in Russia-US relations
First deputy chairman of the Federation Council’s International Affairs Committee Vladimir Dzhabarov believes that the inclusion of virtually all the Russian leaders in the US Finance Ministry’s “Kremlin Report” constitutes a breach in Russia-US relations, RIA Novosti reports.
“Formally our countries have relations, but the inclusion in the sanction list of virtually all our country’s leadership means that these relations are effectively being severed,” Dzhabarov commented. He himself was …
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Media: Cyber-attacks on Dutch banks were carried out from Russian servers
The cyber-attacks that affected the three largest Dutch banks were carried out from Russian servers, as reported by De Telegraaf daily newspaper, citing the ESET Company which specializes in digital security.
"This does not necessarily mean that the perpetrators are also in Russia – they can be anywhere," specialists note.
According to the company, hackers used a so-called botnet, a network of infected computers. They remotely sent signals from devices using the Zbot program to visit certain …
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Ukrainian delegate: Russia's attempt to return to PACE failed
In a comment to InfoResist, Ukrainian MP and delegation representative to PACE Boryslav Bereza stated that Russia tried to blackmail PACE leadership into allowing the country to return to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), but its attempts did not work.
According to Bereza, Russia refused to pay membership fees to PACE until it was reinstated in the organization.
"Russia is blackmailing the assembly by not paying. The financial leverage is very strong, [and] is still …