Contents tagged with USA
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Russian hacker accused of bank cyber-attacks pleads guilty in US court
Russian programmer Stanislav Lisov, extradited to the United States from Spain in 2018, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit a hacker attack, reported TASS with a reference to Russian lawyer Arkady Bukh and the Prosecutor's Office of the Southern District of New York.
Lisov pleaded guilty to one of the two charges. The maximum penalty for this crime is five years in prison. Bukh said that after serving the sentence in the United States, the Russian is likely to be deported to his homeland. …
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Putin: Russia ready for new Cuban Missile Crisis
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is prepared for a new crisis like the Cuban Missile Crisis if the US wants to create it, and threatened to deploy hypersonic nuclear weapons on ships and submarines close to American territorial waters.
The Cuban Missile Crisis, known in Russia as the Caribbean Crisis, took place in 1962, when the US deployed nuclear missiles in Turkey, and Moscow responded by deploying missiles in Cuba, leading to a 13-day confrontation that put the world on …
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United States plans to leave around 400 military in Syria
A number of news agencies, referring to a high-ranking representative of the U.S. presidential administration, reported that after the withdrawal of armed forces from Syria, the United States intends to leave about 400 troops in the country, writes Deutsche Welle.
Earlier, the White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, said that Washington wants a small peacekeeping group of about 200 to remain in Syria for a certain period of time. She explained that this would help to "protect peace" in …
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Kremlin: US wants to transfer weapons to the opposition in Venezuela with the help of Ukraine
The Russian Foreign Ministry official representative Maria Zakharova stated that, at the beginning of March, the US wants to transfer weapons to the opposition in Venezuela with the help of the Ukrainian Antonov company. In addition, according to her, starting on February 23rd, the US will send humanitarian aid to Venezuela while Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro does not intend to allow this aid into the country.
“The transport of cargo to Venezuela is planned for early March of this year …
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Duda: Warsaw hopes for increased American military presence in Poland
Polish President Andrzej Duda said that the country expects an increase of the United States military presence in Poland and he is waiting for a response from Washington.
"We expect that the presence [of the US] will increase, but whether it will be an increase in the number of military personnel or in the number of the military bases, it’s up to the Americans to decide,” the Polish President said at a press conference in Lublin on Friday.
Duda reiterated that Poland is ready to accept more …
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Maduro receives humanitarian aid from Russia
TASS reports that Venezuela accepted a shipment with medicine and medical equipment that was sent through the World Health Organization by Russia as humanitarian aid.
The cargo was handed over at the airport of Caracas by the Russian Ambassador to Venezuela Vladimir Zaemsky. According to him, humanitarian assistance to Venezuela will continue to be provided "in a civilized way through relevant international organizations".
Venezuela’s Deputy Minister of Health, Gerardo Briceno, clarified …
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US accuses Russia of violating consular agreements in Calvey case
The arrest of Baring Vostok founder Michael Calvey, one of the largest American investors in the Russian economy, is well on its way to becoming an international scandal. The Basmanny Court of Moscow has placed Calvey in a pre-trial detention center for 2 months in connection with a corporate dispute.
According to the Russian news outlet RIA Novosti, the US Embassy to Moscow has accused Russia of violating bilateral consular conventions which stipulate that as a US citizen Calvey should …
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US again pledges support for Ukrainian Army
Viktor Muzhenko, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and Donald Winter, a strategic adviser on the improvement of the Ukrainian military-industrial sector, discussed the Ukrainian Army's priority needs for armaments and military equipment, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine wrote on Facebook.
Muzhenko thanked Americans for “constant and informative consultation, advisory, as well as material and technical assistance”. Winter confirmed Washington’s intention …
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Warsaw: Russia foments feud between Poland and Israel
The Russian “troll brigades” that are active in the Polish segment of social networks have been deliberately spreading anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic propaganda, reported Israel Hayom, citing sources in the Polish government administration. “We have no doubt that this is Russian activity,” the anonymous sources said.
Warsaw is apparently inclined to resolve the Holocaust-related conflict with Israel, because, first and foremost, it does not benefit Poland, drawing increased attention to a topic …
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Ukrainian President suggests sending UN evaluation group to the Donbas to prepare for deployment of peacekeepers
Sending the UN evaluation group to the Donetsk and Luhansk regions can be an important step preceding the deployment of the international peacekeeping forces, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stated. He stressed that Ukraine is ready to discuss the mission's mandate.
"A technical assessment mission that Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres could send to the Donbas for the development of the relevant scenarious would definitely contribute to this discussion,” Poroshenko …