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Snowden: Russia may be behind cyber attacks in the US
Edward Snowden, a former U.S. National Security Agency programmer who was granted asylum in Russia after the scandalous revelations of U.S. intelligence activities, expressed confidence that Moscow "has gone too far" in the infringement of social and individual rights and freedoms, as he stated in an interview with the British newspaper, Financial Times. The former U.S. intelligence employee expressed confidence that the Kremlin's actions are "totally unnecessary, wasteful and destructive" for …
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Kiev informs Russia that it is prohibited from carrying out elections on Ukrainian territory
Ukraine has prohibited Russia from holding State Duma elections on its territory, as reported by the press secretary of the President, Svyatoslav Tsegolko. "The President instructed the Minister of Foreign Affairs to inform Moscow that they would not be allowed to hold elections in Ukraine," he wrote on Twitter.
Russian elections will be held on the 18th of September. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that polling stations are planned in the …
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Russian and Chinese navies to hold joint naval exercises in the South China Sea
Russia and China will hold joint naval drills in the South China Sea off the coast of China’s Guangdon province, Reuters reported, citing the Chinese Navy.
The exercises will begin and Monday and will last eight days.
The two navies will carry out defense and rescue operations, as well as exercises focusing on seizing islands.
The exercises come after the arbitration court in The Hague ruled that China did not have historic rights to the South China Sea.
Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, …
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260 foreign merchant vessels have entered Crimean ports since the peninsula's annexation
From 18 March 2014 to 15 August 2016, 260 merchant vessels flying the flags of 32 countries entered ports of the occupied Crimea - Yevpatoria, Sevastopol, Yalta, Feodosia, and Kerch – violating bans and sanctions, as demonstrated by the monitoring of information portal BSNews, which uses AIS (automatic identification system) vessel tracking systems.
Vessels which provide passenger and cargo services in and out of ports on the Crimean peninsula and also special vessels taking part in the …
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First Ukrainian President: The US pressured Ukraine to get rid of nuclear weapons
Ukraine did not rush to abandon nuclear weapons because it's not easy to do, but the Americans put pressure on the government to do so, according to the online-magazine Slon, citing the first President of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk.
According to Kravchuk, at the time the Ukrainian government wanted the Americans to pay for the renunciation of nuclear weapons.
“We demanded compensation from the United States and generally from the West. They were constantly, frankly speaking, pressing us and …