#Putin changes mind, will now get Russia’s COVID vaccine

#Putin changes mind, will now get Russia’s COVID vaccine

“#Putin changes mind, will now get Russia’s COVID vaccine” Russian President Vladimir Putin now says he will receive his country’s Sputnik V vaccine coronavirus vaccine, a month after saying he would not be injected with it. A Kremlin spokesman told a Russian state TV channel of the reversal. “He made this decision and was waiting…

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#Russia’s SolarWinds attack calls for a new ‘reset’

#Russia’s SolarWinds attack calls for a new ‘reset’

“#Russia’s SolarWinds attack calls for a new ‘reset’” President-elect Joe Biden’s first big test is already clear, a month before he takes office: what to do about to a vast cyberattack almost surely waged by Russia. This was no run-of-the-mill hack. A key starting point seems to be “backdoor” malware that infected a flawed product…

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#Russia behind massive U.S. Government hack: Pompeo

#Russia behind massive U.S. Government hack: Pompeo

“#Russia behind massive U.S. Government hack: Pompeo” Russia is behind the ongoing hack of a spectrum of government agencies and corporations, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday night. “This was a very significant effort, and I think it’s the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged…

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#Social media is state media and other commentary

#Social media is state media and other commentary

“#Social media is state media and other commentary” Tech beat: Social Media Is State Media The left is attacking New York Post reporting that exposes Hunter Biden’s “influence-peddling” as Russian disinformation, but “the funny thing about kompromat — a Russian term for compromising information — is that it is often true,” quips Jonathan Turley at…

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#Alexei Navalny asks Trump to condemn use of nerve agent

#Alexei Navalny asks Trump to condemn use of nerve agent

“#Alexei Navalny asks Trump to condemn use of nerve agent” Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is calling on President Trump to join other world leaders in denouncing the banned Soviet-era nerve agent he says Russian leader Vladimir Putin used to poison him, according to a report. The 44-year-old dissident, who was discharged Sept. 23 from a…

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#Belarus’ push for democracy is another blow to Vladimir Putin

#Belarus’ push for democracy is another blow to Vladimir Putin

“#Belarus’ push for democracy is another blow to Vladimir Putin” The forces of freedom are pushing to wrest another country free of a Vladimir Putin ally, as a mass-protest movement aims to stop Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, aka “Europe’s last dictator,” from stealing the Aug. 9 election. Daily demonstrations have escalated ever since Lukashenko declared he’d…

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#The ‘Russiagate’ games politicized US intelligence, too

#The ‘Russiagate’ games politicized US intelligence, too

“#The ‘Russiagate’ games politicized US intelligence, too” Evidence continues to mount that Obama officials’ drive to conjure up the Russiagate “scandal” in order to cripple the Trump presidency went well beyond politicization of the Justice Department. It now looks like then-CIA chief John Brennan drummed up a phony intelligence community “consensus” on Russian election meddling….

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