Contents tagged with Germany
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Russia's Rosneft will control 12 percent of the oil market in Germany
The Russian state-owned company Rosneft starting on January 1st, 2017, will increase the portion of its shares in three German refineries: Bayernoil (from 12.5 percent to 25 percent), PCK Schwedt (from 35.4 to 54.1 percent) and Miro Karlsruhe (from 12 to 24 percent). Rosneft received this possibility as a result of the completion of the agreement on restructuring a joint venture with the refinery and petrochemical company Ruhr Oel GmbH (ROG) in Germany, that was previously signed with the BP …
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French media: OSCE accused Russia of cyber-attacks on the servers of the organization's headquarters
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe stated that its headquarters in Vienna was subjected to a massive hacker attack. Western security services suspect that the attacks were organized by Moscow, and that Angela Merkel may be the attackers’ main target, Le Monde reported.
The OSCE officially refuses to make any assumptions about who might be behind the Internet pirates that took advantage of vulnerabilities in the operating systems used by employees of the organization. …
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Spiegel: Russian hackers were not responsible for leak of Bundestag documents
Secret documents of the Bundestag committee responsible for investigating large-scale surveillance of the American National Security Agency (NSA) came to Wikileaks from a person working in the German parliament. On Saturday, December 17, Der Spiegel weekly published the information, citing sources from the German secret services.
Earlier, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper reported that investigators considered it possible that confidential files appeared at Wikileaks due to …
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Putin and Merkel discussed Ukrainian crisis and the supply of Russian gas to Europe
The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, and the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, had a telephone conversation during which both leaders discussed the supply of Russian gas to European consumers via Ukraine, as well as the Ukrainian crisis, the Kremlin’s website reported.According to the report, Putin stated that he is concerned that Ukraine has been evading the coordination of agreements on purchases of gas from Russia during this winter season. The Russian President …
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German media: Russian hackers passed Bundestag documents to WikiLeaks
In early 2015, a cyber attack took place on the database of the German Bundestag's administration and classified documents belonging to the committee responsible for investigating large-scale surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA) appeared on WikiLeaks, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported, citing a source in German intelligence. The documents first appeared on WikiLeaks on December 1st and are dated from late 2014 to early 2015. The documents had been stored on the …
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Germany to send military advisers to Ukraine
The German Defense Ministry agreed to send military advisers to Ukraine, as reported by the press service of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
The agreement was signed on Thursday in Kyiv by the Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister for European Integration, Ihor Dolhov, and the German Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense, Ralf Brauksiepe.
According to the agreement, German advisers will be active at the Petro Sahaydachnyi National Academy of Ground Forces in Lviv. …
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Germany is preparing for possible Russian cyber-attacks during Bundestag elections
The German federal government assumes that the next election campaign for the country's parliament can be influenced by possible Russian cyber attacks as well as media disinformation campaigns, as reported by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, citing information from the German Ministry of Internal Affairs.
According to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the German Ministry of Internal Affairs also fears that hacker attacks could cause the leakage of important information.
"Germany will have to …
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German politicians are demanding that sanctions be imposed against Russia because of its actions in Syria
German politicians from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and Alliance '90/The Greens demand that fresh sanctions be imposed against Russia for its actions in Syria. In connection with the raids of the Russian and Syrian aircraft on eastern Aleppo, the West must take immediate action, according to a joint statement of the deputies of the Bundestag. The CDU’s Norbert Röttgen and the Greens party’s Franziska Brantner asserted their respective parties’ united stance, which was published …
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German special service fears that Russia may intervene in election
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Germany is concerned that Russia may interfere in the 2017 Bundestag election campaigns.
“Last year, we saw that Russia influenced the formation of public opinion in Germany. We are concerned that the same might happen next year,” this was said by the president of the agency, Hans-Georg Maaßen, during an interview with Reuters.
As an example of this, Maaßen mentioned the alleged kidnapping of a Russian girl named Lisa in Berlin. At …
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German politicians criticized the expansion plan for Nord Stream 2
A German politician from the Alliance 90/The Greens Party, Reinhard Bütikofer, stated that the Russian Federation funds the export of war through the export of energy resources. According to him, it is unacceptable to express favor to this country and provide support on economic issues at a time when the whole world is outraged by the role of Russia in Aleppo, Frankfurter Allgemeine reported.Frankfurter Allgemeine also quoted the Chairman of Bundestag’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, Norbert Rö …