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Edward Lucas: How I ended up on the RT “Top Ten Russophobes” list
AUTHOR:Edward Lucas 03 October 2017 How I ended up on the RT “Top Ten Russophobes” list The Kremlin-funded broadcaster RT’s list of the top ten Russophobes was an odd collection, mixing institutions...
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Arizona State University: Weaponized Narrative Initiative
What isWeaponized Narrative? Weaponized narrative is an attack that seeks to undermine an opponent’s civilization, identity, and will. By generating confusion, complexity, and political and social...
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The Morning Vertical – October 4, 2017
THE MORNING VERTICAL by Brian Whitmore 04.10.2017 On My Mind Moscow may come to regret its support for separatist movements abroad — whether in the former Soviet Union or in Europe. As Gazeta.ru...
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Russia / Strategy Media Update (325) – 04 October2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> An interesting collection of reports from Russia showing how the country is progressively destabilizing, possibly the most...
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Time for the Trump Administration to Arm Ukraine
Antony J. Blinken OCT. 4, 2017 The Russian occupation of eastern Ukraine produced one very hot summer. Through August, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe recorded between 1,000 and...
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Russia Hacking NATO: Troops Near Russian Border Had Phones Compromised
BY AJ DELLINGER ON 10/04/17 AT 12:26 PM James Comey on Russian Hackers: ‘They Will Be Back’ Soldiers and officials of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member countries deployed in eastern...
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Congressional Leaders Urge Facebook, Twitter To Make Kremlin-Linked Ads Public
OCT 4, 2017 @ 08:20 PM Kathleen Chaykowski , FORBES STAFF Congressional leaders on Wednesday called on Facebook FB -0.91% and Twitter TWTR +0.91% to publicly share Kremlin-linked political ads that...
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Kremlin distances itself from captured ‘Russian soldiers’ shown in Isis...
That Russia depends heavily on Russian mercenaries to do their dirty work in Syria creates an inconvenient problem for Russia. Russia is going to have to tiptoe around the issue, placing doubt on...
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Kremlin Uses Inforwars Material For Disinformation
My wording is very precise, the Kremlin uses anything and everything against the West to wage an information war, in order to: Sow chaos and confusion in the West Undermine Democracy in the West...
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Russia / Strategy Media Update (326) – 5 October 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> Today is a day of unexpected statements, the NYT OpEd by Blinken being the least expected. Amb Volker to meet Surkov again....
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Finland opens new center to fight ‘hybrid threats’ from Russia
Reid Standish, GlobalPost Published 4:44 a.m. ET Oct. 4, 2017 HELSINKI — In a sign of just how seriously countries are taking Moscow’s attempts to destabilize them, 11 European governments plus the...
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Russian government hackers used antivirus software to steal U.S. cyber...
The hearing referenced in the last paragraph had been scheduled for last week. I had initially been invited to testify, but was bumped when Eugene Kaspersky agreed to appear. Inexplicably the entire...
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Facebook reportedly cut Russia from election meddling report
Facebook whittled down a public report on election meddling to remove mentions to Russia, The Wall Street Journal reports. BY STEVEN MUSIL OCTOBER 5, 2017 7:32 PM PDT Facebook removed all references to...
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‘We Can’t Even Hire A Stringer’: Russia Today Says Its U.S. Staff Leaving In...
Equal treatment of RT as a Foreign Agent of Influence is killing Russia Today. This is the exact same treatment for anyone working for the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, or any...
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Russian TV Says Earth Is Flat
In a widely poo-poo’d report for even Russia, REN TV showed a film that claims the earth is flat. It was even noted during the recent Russian Emmy TV awards. REN TV (Russian: РЕН ТВ) is one of the...
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Russia-backed “Blacktivist” FB page sold merchandise
The “Blacktivist” Facebook story appears to be growing daily. By all accounts, Facebook needs to trace any and all links to the Blacktivist accounts, outline all activity, and document everything they...
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Russia’s New ‘Useful Idiots’?
Full disclosure, I am currently reading and reviewing this book, “Tango Noir: Russia and the Western Far Right,” a new book by Anton Shekhovtsov. </end editorial> “Originally published by...
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Russia / Strategy Media Update (327) – 6 October 2017
Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. On the story, Russian Soldiers Face Ban On Social-Media Posts. Well, duh. After three years of open source reporting, NOW Russia is taking action....
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Russian propaganda may have been shared hundreds of millions of times, new...
By Craig Timberg October 5 Facebook has said ads bought by Russian operatives reached 10 million of its users. But does that include everyone reached by the information operation? Couldn’t the Russians...
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War Games: Russia Is Testing Out Live Bombings And Shutting Down Phone Lines,...
BY REUTERS ON 10/5/17 AT 1:10 PM Moscow was probably behind interruptions in Latvia’s mobile communications network before Russia’s war games last month, in an apparent test of its cyber attack tools,...
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