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The mafia of the digital age
Through the dark world of cybercrime, its tentacles spread everywhere: stock manipulation, money laundering, gambling and more. ||| New York – Through the dark world of cybercrime, its tentacles spread everywhere: stock manipulation, money laundering, gambling and more.Nothing in the annals of corporate hacking compares to the portrait US...
National Security and Defense Council:Activity of pro-Russian militant groups recorded in the Donetsk sector. One Ukrainian serviceman died and three were injured
Kyiv, November 13, 2015. Combat activity was observed only in the Donetsk sector yesterday. The militants tried to assail our stronghold near Zaitseve north of Horlivka. Intensive fighting lasted around one hour with use of small arms and grenade launchers. About twenty provocations instigated by militants were recorded along the demarcation line...
Key hacker MIA in US case
A key figure is missing in the court documents outlining the biggest computer attack ever of the US financial system: the actual hacker. ||| Washington – A key figure is missing in the court documents outlining the biggest computer attack ever of the US financial system: the actual hacker. The Israeli mastermind of the crime syndicate with...
Will Saakashvili’s Defeat in Odesa Be His Ukrainian Waterloo?
Odesa Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov trounced Solidarity Party’s Sasha Borovik by 53-26 percent in Ukraine’s local elections October 25. Observers reported carousel voting, multiple voting lists, exit poll workers agitating for candidates, and a suspiciously slow vote count.The race for Odesa mayor was a proxy war between Oblast Governor...
National Security and Defense Council:Militants violated the cease-fire, one Ukrainian serviceman was killed in action and five more were wounded
Kyiv, November 11, 2015. In the Luhansk sector militants fired upon the positions of ATO forces near Bolotene – a town in Stanychno-Luhansky district close to the state border yesterday in the morning. Apart from small arms militant groups were using 82-mm mortars. It was calm in Stanytsia Luhanska, Shchastia, Zolote and along the Bakhmutska road...
A Close (and Surprisingly Positive) Encounter with Odesa’s New Police
The reorganization and reform of Ukraine’s catastrophically corrupt police force was the top priority when President Petro Poroshenko appointed Eka Zguladze first deputy Interior Minister of Ukraine. Poroshenko wants to emulate the relative success that Georgia’s Rose Revolution reformers garnered in modernizing their small...
Failing on the Ukrainian Battlefield, Russia Turns to Terrorism
To understand how Russia conducts its foreign policy, simply look at what the Kremlin accuses everyone else of doing. Unlike the Soviet Union, which operated under a coherent ideology, the Russian government under President Vladimir Putin seems to believe that everybody is a cynical power player, and that the West is simply hypocritical about it....
Judiciary Reforms Take a Major Step Forward in Ukraine
While Ukraine’s eastern front falls quiet, a different campaign rages in the conference rooms of Kyiv. The administration of President Petro Poroshenko is overhauling the Ukrainian state, amending everything from the constitution to the tax code. The most important reform may be the creation of an independent judiciary. As Anders Åslund...
Expert Panel Identifies Ways to Defeat Corruption in Ukraine
A top Citibank executive and one of Ukraine’s most popular rock stars were among five luminaries who offered their suggestions Monday for cleaning up the endemic corruption that has long strangled the Ukrainian economy and kept foreign investors away.The five appeared on a November 9 panel titled “Securing Ukraine’s Future:...
National Security and Defense Council:Militants directly storm positions of ATO forces in Donetsk region for first time in two months
Kyiv, November 9, 2015. Situation in the ATO zone stands tense. Militant provocations were registered along the entire contact line. Shchastia was the only hotspot in Luhansk sector yesterday. Militants fired twice upon the positions of ATO forces using grenade launchers and machine guns. In the Donetsk sector the enemy took a risk and stormed...