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      Putin says Russia right to boycott Eurovision over Ukraine
      May15

      Putin says Russia right to boycott Eurovision over Ukraine

      Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia was right to boycott this year`s Eurovision song contest because Ukrainian authorities were not up to the job of organizing such events, according to Reuters. Russia`s state broadcaster boycotted the contest after Ukraine, the host country, barred entry to the Russian contestant because...

      Russia to supply raw materials to seized factories in occupied Donbas
      May15

      Russia to supply raw materials to seized factories in occupied Donbas

      The Russian Federal Agency for State Reserves (Rosrezerv) in 2017 will receive RUB 10 billion from the government`s Reserve Fund to finance the costs associated with the recovery of stocks raw materials and materials of the metallurgical industry, RBC reports citing the government`s order of May 4, 2017, signed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry...

      New wave of ransom threats seen in unprecedented global attack – Bloomberg
      May15

      New wave of ransom threats seen in unprecedented global attack – Bloomberg

      An unrivaled global cyber-attack is poised to continue claiming victims Monday as people return to work and turn on their desktop computers, even as hospitals and other facilities gained the upper hand against the first wave, according to Bloomberg. More than 200,000 computers in at least 150 countries have so far been infected, according to...

      North Korea: New rocket can carry nuclear warhead
      May15

      North Korea: New rocket can carry nuclear warhead

      North Korea has announced that Sunday`s missile launch tested a new type of rocket capable of carrying a ”large-scale heavy nuclear warhead.” The test led to an international outcry and a call for harsher sanctions, according to Deutsche Welle. Sunday`s launch was a ”newly-developed mid/long-range strategic ballistic rocket, Hwasong-12,” North...

      PEN America launches campaign to free Ukrainian writer Oleh Sentsov
      May15

      PEN America launches campaign to free Ukrainian writer Oleh Sentsov

      Authors, television hosts, and other creative allies joined PEN America in a letter calling on U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to press for the immediate release of Oleh Sentsov, a Ukrainian writer and filmmaker imprisoned in Russia`s Siberia on terrorism charges widely considered to be a groundless attempt to silence his criticism of...

      Four civilians killed in militant shelling of Avdiyivka`s residential district
      May14

      Four civilians killed in militant shelling of Avdiyivka`s residential district

      Around 19:30 on Saturday, militants opened fire on the residential neighborhood of Avdiyivka, which resulted in four civilians being killed and another one injured, that`s according to the chief of Donetsk region`s military and civilian administration Pavlo Zhebrivskiy. According to the press service of local police.   Three men and a woman were...

      U.S. Mission to OSCE says Russia boosting artillery presence in Donbas
      May14

      U.S. Mission to OSCE says Russia boosting artillery presence in Donbas

      In the past three months, Russian-occupation forces in Donbas have massively deployed heavy artillery banned under the Minsk agreements, according to Kate Byrnes, the U.S. envoy to the OSCE, who addressed the organization`s Permanent Council on Thursday, May 11. ”Despite a deliberate pattern of behavior by Russian-led separatist forces aimed at...

      Suspected Russia-backed hackers target Baltic energy networks
      May14

      Suspected Russia-backed hackers target Baltic energy networks

      Suspected Russia-backed hackers have launched exploratory cyber attacks against the energy networks of the Baltic states, sources said, raising security concerns inside the West`s main military alliance, NATO, according to Reuters. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, all members of NATO and the European Union, are on the political front line of...

      British foreign secretary Boris Johnson believes Russia will try to hack UK election
      May14

      British foreign secretary Boris Johnson believes Russia will try to hack UK election

      There is a ”realistic possibility” Russia might try to interfere in Britain`s national election next month, according to Boris Johnson, British foreign secretary, Newsweek reported citing Johnson`s interview with The Telegraph. Johnson also said Russian president Vladimir Putin would ”rejoice” if Jeremy Corbyn`s Labour party won the June 8...

      Ukraine has vast experience in tackling Kremlin propaganda and ready to share it – experts
      May14

      Ukraine has vast experience in tackling Kremlin propaganda and ready to share it – experts

      Ukraine has accumulated vast experience in fighting the Kremlin propaganda and is ready to share it with its partners, Deputy Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine Dmytro Zolotukhin said, addressing a scientific conference ”Overcoming the consequences of totalitarianism as a way of forming stability in the Baltic-Black Sea Region” held on May...