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russia-related hackers are selling personal data of 257K Facebook users
02.11.2018
A group of hackers is trying to sell Facebook’s personal data base. For the theft of personal information, they used social network vulnerabilities and browser extensions, reports the BBC. The analysis of the British company Digital Shadows showed that more than 257 thousand people were affected. The majority of the profiles come from Ukraine – 47 thousand, 12 thousand – from russia, the rest from the CIS, Great Britain or the USA. According to the BBC, hackers are either associated with russia, or would ...russia imposes financial sanctions against Ukraine
02.11.2018
russia imposed financial sanctions on Ukraine’s political elite, freezing their property and financial assets in russia, and blocking them from repatriating their resources to Ukraine, reported euronews. Hundreds of politicians and officials, as well as dozens of Ukrainian-owned businesses are said to be affected. The decision is described as tit-for-tat sanctions in response to similar measures taken by the Ukraine against russian individuals and companies. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that being on the list is like receiving an award, adding that ...Trump adviser: russia should ‘get out of’ Ukraine
30.10.2018
U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton said on Friday it would be helpful if russia got out of Ukraine’s Crimea and eastern Ukraine, stopped meddling in U.S. elections, and was less intrusive in the Middle East, Reuters reports. “It will be helpful if they (the russians) stop interfering in our election … get out of Crimea and the Donbas in Ukraine … stop using illegal chemical weapons to conduct assassination attempts against russian exiles in the West, and if they would be ...Facebook Failed to Address Concerns About russian Online Interference in Ukraine
29.10.2018
In 2015 Ukrainian government had been urging Facebook to stop the kremlin’s spreading of misinformation on the social network, The Washington Post reports. In the three years since then, Ukrainian officials say the company has failed to address most of their concerns about russian online interference that predated similar interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The tactics identified by officials, such as coordinated activity to overwhelm Facebook’s system and the use of impostor accounts, are the same as in the 2016 contest ...U.S. trade mission has arrived in Ukraine after a 10-year pause
29.10.2018
The official U.S. trade mission, consisting of 12 companies representing American agriculture, energy, infrastructure, and IT sector, has arrived in Ukraine after a 10-year pause in such visits, UNIAN reports.As mentioned during the official ceremony, the visit will last two days. It is planned to hold over 60 meetings with representatives of Ukrainian businesses.Ukraine had in recent years abolished over 14,000 obsolete standards, as well as planned to introduce European standards (1,500 per year), which should significantly improve the in the country.According to ...>53% of Respondents Think That Ukraine Should Make No Concessions to putin
29.10.2018
A total of 53.3% of respondents say they think the Ukrainian government should make no concessions to russian President Vladimir putin in restoring peace in Donbas. Such findings are highlighted in a September survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology at the request of NGO Detector Media. In addition, 56% of those polled said they were not ready to make sacrifices for the sake of establishing peace and to give up territories or part of the independence of Ukraine. The ...Is Croatian Peacekeeping Model Best for Donbas?
24.10.2018
Advisor to Ukraine’s minister for temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced persons, ex-Ambassador to Croatia Oleksandr Levchenko says a UN peacekeeping mission in Donbas should be deployed according to the “Croatian model.” “The ministry for temporarily occupied territories has once again analyzed the use of peacekeeping missions around the world. Having studied dozens of cases, we have come to the conclusion that the Croatian model would be the best for us from among all those that we have seen. Scenarios of ...The Times: British MPs on russian Payroll
24.10.2018
British MPs have demanded that peers give up financial interests linked to russia amid concerns over moscow’s escalating aggression. An overhaul of the Lords code of conduct to tighten the rules around transparency and links to foreign nations has also been proposed by MPs and campaigners for transparency. Their calls come after an investigation by The Times into peers with interests linked to russia, and during the fallout from a nerve agent attack by russian spies in Salisbury in March. In 2017 The Guardian wrote that ...Patriarch Bartholomew: russia is paying big money for articles and black propaganda
23.10.2018
ORTHODOXIA.INFO | Andreas Loudaros Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew yesterday sent a clear message to russia vis-à-vis the Ukraine issue, stating that Constantinople has no intention whatsoever of giving in to pressure. While addressing an audience at an event in Istanbul celebrating the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Feriköy Greek community, His All-Holiness made it clear that the prerogatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate are rooted in the decisions of the Ecumenical Councils and legally binding for all within Orthodoxy. “Whether our russian brothers ...Chornobyl Goes Solar
05.10.2018
Ukraine unveiled its first solar plant in Chornobyl. Just meters away from where a power station, now encased in a giant sarcophagus, caused the world’s worst nuclear disaster three decades ago.Built in a contaminated area, which remains largely uninhabitable and where visitors are accompanied by guides carrying radiation meters, 3,800 panels produce energy to power 2,000 apartments. “It’s not just another solar power plant,” Evhen Variagin, the chief executive of Solar Chernobyl LLC, told reporters. “It’s really hard to underestimate the ...The kremlin-driven Propaganda Network Has Been Exposed in Eastern Europe
02.09.2018
The russian government discreetly funded a group of seemingly independent news websites in Eastern Europe to pump out stories dictated to them by the kremlin, reported BuzzFeed News. The scheme has only come to light through Skype chats and documents obtained by BuzzFeed News, Estonian newspaper Postimees, and investigative journalism outlet Re:Baltica via freedom of information laws, as part of a criminal probe into the individual who was moscow’s man on the ground in Estonia. russian state media created secret companies (SPN ...Both German and Soviet sources assessed the UPA’s activities as an anti-German uprising
18.03.2018
A UPA leaflet calling to fight the Germans by all available means, June 1943. Photo: Provided by the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance.A joint informational project by NV, the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, the Center for the Study of the Liberation Movement, and KSD Publishing, aimed at debunking myths that exist in the collective memory regarding the activities of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).Myth: The UPA was created by the Nazi occupiers, and in close cooperation with them, it ...
