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Kremlin to sacrifice economy for the sake of larger military budget
The Russian Finance Ministry has published a draft federal budget for 2020-2022 in which it has further increased financing for the security forces and reduced the budget for the economy, education and regional assistance.
According to the document and its appendices, which have been uploaded onto the official legal information portal, the Russian government plans to spend $302 billion out of its expected $315 billion in revenue.
Overall, the government will spend $5.65 billion (1.9%) more …
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Kremlin: publication of Zelensky and Trump conversation transcript shows the danger of negotiating with US
Official Representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said on a Channel One Russia that the transcript publication of te telephone conversation between the US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky showed that it is dangerous to negotiate with Washington, reports TASS news agency.
"I agree with many assessments that this [publication of the transcript] certainly changes the form of relations between countries, between presidents, and between …
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Media: Russian special forces spotted in Norway
Several news outlets have reported that Russian special forces were seen entering the Svalbard archipelago and mainland Norway.
According to Aldrimer news outlet, sources in NATO and in Norwegian intelligence have reported that the Russian troops were studying the terrain and important infrastructure. The US has obtained satellite images depicting the Russian special forces troops in Norwegian territory.
Oslo said that the incident was related to Russia’s military exercise in the Barents Sea, …
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Prague: Russia continues cyber attacks on Czech Republic
More than 90% of cyber attacks on the Czech Republic are carried out by foreign countries, reports vinegret.cz news outlet with reference to the report of the Czech National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NÚKIB) for 2018.
It is noted that in most cases, hackers are associated with Russia and China. According to the NÚKIB, an investigation is carried out into a large-scale attack on one of the "important government structure." At the same time, the report informs that there were no …
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Russia to strip Deutsche Welle’s accreditation due to ‘extremism’
The State Duma commission for interference in Russia’s affairs will ask the Foreign Ministry to consider stripping Deutsche Welle (DW) of its accreditation, said the head of the commission, Vasily Piskarev, as cited by the Russian State Duma website.
The commission believes that DW has broken a number of Russian laws by tweeting “calls to participate in unsanctioned protests”, and claims that the parliamentarians’ opinions are supported by a linguistic analysis. DW itself explained previously …