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"The good news for the White House is that the number of people in the West who can grasp all that is rather small. Even in our Intelligence Community, this specialization is rare and customarily considered somewhat odd. You need to understand the Russian mindset, which means you should speak their language and comprehend how they think. You need extensive knowledge of Kremlin spy-cum-propaganda operations going back many decades. That expertise is hardly ever achieved by scholars, so we’re talking about people with a lot of education but also practical experience in high-level counterespionage against the Russians.
To say nothing of the fact that the Russians routinely use provocateurs and fake opposition to muddy the waters whenever questions arise about nefarious Kremlin activities. Vociferous haters of Moscow and all its works have an odd habit of turning out to be secretly on the payroll of Russian spy services, while the Kremlin has employed provocation on an industrial scale for more than a century to confuse the West in its efforts to understand what the Russians are really up to. Chekists like Vladimir Putin take enormous pride in their seasoned ability to run rings around confused foreigners until they get lost in the vaunted “wilderness of mirrors.”
To sum up, the knowledge required here can’t be obtained by reading a few books and consulting Wikipedia. Neither does partisan hackery help in getting to the bottom of Trump’s murky Russia ties. However, dull amateurism matched with naked partisanship constitutes most of what passes for media analysis of this critical issue, and as long as that continues to be the case the president will skirt the serious inquiry the country needs to unravel Donald Trump’s strange relationship with the Kremlin.
John Schindler is a security expert and former National Security Agency analyst and counterintelligence officer. A specialist in espionage and terrorism, he’s also been a Navy officer and a War College professor. He’s published four books and is on Twitter at @20committee." 
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For America's sake, we need answers about Russia. Now

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(Note: I hardly had finished writing the following piece when Michael Flynn resigned, requiring a small revision. With this new development, the plot thickens, and getting to the truth about Russia and the Trump White House becomes even more important.

Michael Flynn a dramatic early casualty in Donald Trump's administration

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Washington: Donald Trump's embattled national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned late on Monday, a dramatic early casualty in an administration hobbled by security chaos and confusion and a firming sense that the administration and its ...

Kremlin, Russian lawmakers play down Flynn's resignation

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MOSCOW — The Kremlin on Tuesday played down the resignation of U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, a sign that Russia is already looking ahead to talks with the U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to improve the nations' strained ties ...

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How President Trump Beats the Russia Rap

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Throughout the six weeks since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has been buffeted by waves of allegations regarding his links to Russia. Leaks about calls to the Russian embassy in Washington led to the embarrassing resignation of Mike Flynn, Trump’s first National Security Advisor, after just three weeks on the job. Further leaks indicated that the Intelligence Community intercepted numerous calls last year, during the election campaign, between members of Trump’s inner circle and senior Russian intelligence officials. For a new White House still finding its way, shadowy Kremlin ties have become more than a mere distraction.
Many in Washington, including at least a few of our spies, think the administration will eventually be overwhelmed by its shady relationship with Vladimir Putin and his unpleasant regime. The president’s ham-handed efforts to dismiss the Russia story as “fake news” have not quieted his critics, by no means all of whom are on the Left. Rumors of unsavory connections to the Kremlin swirled around Trump throughout the presidential race, but neither his rivals nor the media dug as deeply into those allegations as they should have. To compensate, parts of the mainstream media have now gone into overdrive, searching meticulously for proof of unethical and perhaps illegal ties between the White House and Putin.
So far no smoking gun has emerged. But, as someone who tried to shed light on Trump’s questionable Kremlin links long before the election, I’m relieved to see this issue finally getting the attention it merits, but in not every case is late better than never. Allegations of serious misdeeds—espionage and perhaps worse—not supported by hard evidence inevitably smack of trying to overturn a democratic election, ex post facto, by undemocratic means.
It is imperative that we get to the bottom of President Trump’s links to Russia. That country, contrary to our commander-in-chief’s repeated claims, is no friend of ours. In truth, the Putin regime is our adversary, and it opposes American interests wherever and however it can. Not to mention that Russia has several thousand nuclear weapons pointed at us. Moscow in recent years has taken to calling the United States its “main adversary” again, in retro-Cold War fashion, and they mean it.
Dull amateurism matched with naked partisanship constitutes most of what passes for media analysis of this critical issue.
However, it increasingly seems that the Republican-controlled Congress is not up to the task of conducting a rigorous inquiry into the president’s Kremlin connections. Although both the Senate and House Intelligence Committees are running concurrent investigations of Trump’s Russia links, the former’s chair, Sen. Richard Burr, is a strong Trump backer, so it’s worth asking if he can really be as non-partisan as an inquiry of such seriousness mandates.
Worse still is Rep. Devin Nunes, the latter committee’s chair, who is nakedly pro-Trump and who has accused Democrats of engaging in “McCarthyism” in their ardor to investigate the president. Coincidentally or not, “McCarthyism” is the charge leveled at anybody who’s suspicious of Trump’s Kremlin connections by friends of Putin, including the Russian state media. Rep. Nunes’ previous strange obsession—moving as many Pentagon spy offices as possible to the remote Azores, his family’s ancestral home, appears quaint compared to his obvious desire to quash any serious House investigation of President Trump.
This is precisely why an independent special prosecutor, perhaps in tandem with a bipartisan Congressional commission, is needed to get to the bottom of this complex issue. However, it’s too soon to expect that will happen, and it’s plain to see that most Republicans in Congress will follow the White House’s lead here. Until more and worse information is leaked regarding Russia, don’t expect GOP members of the House and Senate to muster sufficient political courage to put country, and our national security, before party.
It must be said that President Trump is greatly helped by his adversaries on this issue. Strategists know that having a cooperative enemy is just about the best gift anyone can hope for, in politics as in war, and Trump has just about the most cooperative enemies imaginable here. After decades of low-balling the Russian threat, when not mockingly denying it outright, liberals suddenly see the Kremlin bear lurking menacingly around every corner. Leftists who castigated American intelligence as the enemies of civil liberties, openly hailing defectors to Moscow like Edward Snowden as heroes, now regard our spies as the saviors of our democracy.
This kind of naked partisanship isn’t fooling anybody in the Intelligence Community, which is skeptical of all partisan politics. Worse, the Left has embraced many White House critics whose sole credential is vehement loathing of Republicans in general and Trump supporters in particular. Many of the talking heads cited whenever the issue of Trump and Russia comes up are self-proclaimed experts, while others are outright frauds (MSNBC is particularly egregious in this regard).
Yet this case, given its importance and complexity, demands real expertise—and it can’t be denied that expertise in general is under attack in our society, as elaborated in an excellent new bookThe Death of Expertise. Simply put, you need to know a lot of things to grasp the full scope of Russian spy-games against America and how they impact our politics right now.
You need a deep understanding of Russian spycraft, what Moscow calls konspiratsiya (yes, “conspiracy”), which goes back a century and more. The good news is that Kremlin spy-games have remained remarkably consistent over time; the bad news is they’re very intricate and long-term. Russian intelligence agencies are far more aggressive and risk-taking than Western counterparts and they are much more patient. In Moscow, successful espionage operations are measured in decades, not years.
You also need a deep understanding of how the Russians conduct offensive counterintelligence operations, particularly the recruitment of moles inside the enemy’s spy services. The Trump presidency is one piece of a complex Putinist puzzle which includes the long-term, far-reaching penetration of American intelligence agencies by Russian spies. Here the Snowden Operation forms a portion of a much bigger espionage story which must be unraveled to understand how 2016 happened.
Last, you need a deep understanding of how Russian intelligence disseminates propaganda, what the Kremlin calls Active Measures, against their foes. Particularly important is the use of disinformation, which the KGB and its successors have perfected over decades, and they now can disseminate it quickly and easily online. Above all, what’s required to get to the bottom of the Trump mystery is a well-honed ability to unravel the full scope of interlocking Russian spy-games in their strategic—not just tactical—complexity.
The good news for the White House is that the number of people in the West who can grasp all that is rather small. Even in our Intelligence Community, this specialization is rare and customarily considered somewhat odd. You need to understand the Russian mindset, which means you should speak their language and comprehend how they think. You need extensive knowledge of Kremlin spy-cum-propaganda operations going back many decades. That expertise is hardly ever achieved by scholars, so we’re talking about people with a lot of education but also practical experience in high-level counterespionage against the Russians.
To say nothing of the fact that the Russians routinely use provocateurs and fake opposition to muddy the waters whenever questions arise about nefarious Kremlin activities. Vociferous haters of Moscow and all its works have an odd habit of turning out to be secretly on the payroll of Russian spy services, while the Kremlin has employed provocation on an industrial scale for more than a century to confuse the West in its efforts to understand what the Russians are really up to. Chekists like Vladimir Putin take enormous pride in their seasoned ability to run rings around confused foreigners until they get lost in the vaunted “wilderness of mirrors.”
To sum up, the knowledge required here can’t be obtained by reading a few books and consulting Wikipedia. Neither does partisan hackery help in getting to the bottom of Trump’s murky Russia ties. However, dull amateurism matched with naked partisanship constitutes most of what passes for media analysis of this critical issue, and as long as that continues to be the case the president will skirt the serious inquiry the country needs to unravel Donald Trump’s strange relationship with the Kremlin.
John Schindler is a security expert and former National Security Agency analyst and counterintelligence officer. A specialist in espionage and terrorism, he’s also been a Navy officer and a War College professor. He’s published four books and is on Twitter at @20committee.
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Kremlin ties could unravel the new administration—but Dems wounded own cause by downplaying Russian threat for so long
Throughout the six weeks since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has been buffeted by waves of allegations regarding his links to Russia. Leaks about calls to the Russian embassy in Washington led to the embarrassing resignation of Mike Flynn, Trump’s first National Security Advisor, after just three weeks on the job. Further leaks indicated that the Intelligence Community intercepted numerous calls last year, during the election campaign, between members of Trump’s inner circle and senior Russian intelligence officials. For a new White House still finding its way, shadowy Kremlin ties have become more than a mere distraction.
Many in Washington, including at least a few of our spies, think the administration will eventually be overwhelmed by its shady relationship with Vladimir Putin and his unpleasant regime. The president’s ham-handed efforts to dismiss the Russia story as “fake news” have not quieted his critics, by no means all of whom are on the Left. Rumors of unsavory connections to the Kremlin swirled around Trump throughout the presidential race, but neither his rivals nor the media dug as deeply into those allegations as they should have. To compensate, parts of the mainstream media have now gone into overdrive, searching meticulously for proof of unethical and perhaps illegal ties between the White House and Putin.
So far no smoking gun has emerged. But, as someone who tried to shed light on Trump’s questionable Kremlin links long before the election, I’m relieved to see this issue finally getting the attention it merits, but in not every case is late better than never. Allegations of serious misdeeds—espionage and perhaps worse—not supported by hard evidence inevitably smack of trying to overturn a democratic election, ex post facto, by undemocratic means.
It is imperative that we get to the bottom of President Trump’s links to Russia. That country, contrary to our commander-in-chief’s repeated claims, is no friend of ours. In truth, the Putin regime is our adversary, and it opposes American interests wherever and however it can. Not to mention that Russia has several thousand nuclear weapons pointed at us. Moscow in recent years has taken to calling the United States its “main adversary” again, in retro-Cold War fashion, and they mean it.
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A U.S. general says a Russian airstrike in Syria hit U.S.-backed Syrian Arab forces who are part of the fight against the Islamic State group.
     
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Interpol Issues Red Notices for Russian Operatives

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Interpol wants Russian individuals for attempting to overthrow Montenegro’s government during the elections this past October.

Fake news used, abused on the left too

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The burden falls on all of us to read news items critically before we share them — no matter what our political persuasion or how pure our intentions.
     

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Meet Felix Sater, The Best Friend That Trump Claims He Never Had
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When last we checked in on Donald Trump's Russia scandal a couple of weeks ago, it was bubbling away nicely and threatened to come to a boil. It hasn't yet. Not quite, but we now know enough about the relationship between the president and a ...

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I'm not a special prosecutor, and I can't say it's an obstruction of justice to pressure Comey and congress on the gravest counter-intelligence case of the 21st century (the federal statute on obstruction of justice covers “endeavours to influence ...
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The Three Trumps by Jeffrey D. Sachs

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NEW YORK – Never in recent history has a change of leadership attracted as much attention and speculation as Donald Trump’s rise to the US presidency. What this change signifies and what it portends requires unraveling three mysteries, because there are three versions of Trump.
The first Trump is the friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump’s enthusiasm for Putin is the most consistent part of his rhetoric. Despite a worldview that regards the United States as a victim of foreign powers – China, Mexico, Iran, the European Union – Trump’s ardor for Putin burns bright.
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Depending on who is opining, Trump is either a naive admirer of strongmen like Putin or a long-time tool of Russian intelligence. There is almost surely a backstory here, one that could destroy Trump’s administration if some of the lurid rumors are confirmed. We now know that some key dates and details in the infamous “dossier” on Trump’s relations with Putin, assembled by a former British intelligence officer, have been verified.
growing body of circumstantial evidence suggests that Trump has been backed by Russian money for decades. Russian oligarchs may have saved Trump from personal bankruptcy, and one reportedly traveled to a number of Trump’s campaign stops, perhaps acting as a go-between with the Kremlin. And many top members of Trump’s team – including his first campaign manager, Paul Manafort; recently-ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn; former ExxonMobil CEO and now Secretary of State Rex Tillerson; and hedge-fund magnate and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross – all have significant business dealings with Russia or Russian oligarchs.
The second version of Trump is a greedy businessman. Trump seems intent on transforming the presidency into another source of personal wealth. For most people, the presidency would seem to be its own reward, without cashing in (at least not while in office). Not for Trump. Contrary to all previous norms, and in violation of the standards set by the Office of Government Ethics, Trump is keeping his business empire, while family members maneuver to monetize the Trump name in new investments around the world.
The third Trump is a populist and demagogue. Trump is a non-stop font of lies, who brushes aside the inevitable corrections by the media with the charge of “fake news.” For the first time in modern American history, the president is aggressively demonizing the press. This past week, the White House barred the New York Times, CNN, Politico, and the Los Angeles Times from a news briefing by the press secretary.
On some interpretations, Trump’s demagogy is in the service of his chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, who defends a dark vision of a coming war of civilizations. By raising fear to the highest possible level, Trump aims to create a violent America-first nationalism. Hermann Göring chillingly explained the formula from his Nuremberg jail cell after World War II: “[T]he people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
Another theory is that all three Trumps – friend of Putin, wealth maximizer, and demagogue – are really one: Trump the businessman has long been supported by the Russians, who have used him for years as a front for laundered money. One might say they won the jackpot, parlaying a small bet – on manipulating the outcome of an election they most likely never expected him to win – into a huge payoff. On this interpretation, Trump’s attacks on the press, the intelligence agencies, and the FBI specifically aim to discredit these organizations in advance of further revelations regarding the Trump-Russia dealings.
Those of us who lived through Watergate remember how difficult it was to hold Richard Nixon to account. Without the revelation of secret White House tapes, Nixon almost surely would have escaped impeachment and served out his term. The same was true with Flynn, who lied time and again to the public, and to Vice President Michael Pence, about his communications with the Russian ambassador before he assumed his post. Yet, like Nixon, he was tripped up only because his lies were recorded, in this case by the US intelligence agencies.
When Flynn’s lies were exposed, Trump’s reaction, characteristically, was to attack the leak, not the lies. The main lesson of Washington, and indeed of strongman politics in general, is that lying is the first, not last, resort.
If Congress has enough honest members, a majority, knowing that Republicans will not police Republicans, will demand an independent investigation of Trump’s Russia ties. Republican Senator Rand Paul was explicit on this point, declaring that it “makes no sense” for Republicans to investigate Republicans. Trump seems intent on turning up the pressure on the FBI, the intelligence agencies, the courts, and the media to back off.
Demagogues survive because of public support, which they try to maintain through appeals to greed, nationalism, patriotism, racism, and fear. They shower their supporters with short-lived cash, in the form of tax cuts and income transfers, paid for by running up the public debt and leaving the bill to future generations. Trump has so far kept America’s plutocrats happy, through promises of unaffordable tax cuts, while mesmerizing his white working-class followers with executive orders to deport illegal immigrants and bar arrivals from Muslim-majority countries.
None of this has made Trump very popular. His approval ratings are historically low for a new president, around 40%, with roughly 55% of respondents disapproving. Judicial challenges to executive actions, fights with the media, tensions stemming from rising budget deficits, and new revelations regarding Trump and Russia, will keep the pot boiling – and Trump’s public support could evaporate.
In that case, Republican leaders are more likely to turn on Trump. But no one should ever underestimate a demagogue’s willingness to use fear and violence – even war – to maintain power. And if Putin is indeed his backer and partner, Trump’s temptations will be strong.
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A growing body of circumstantial evidence suggests that Trump has been backed by Russian money for decades. Russian oligarchs may have saved Trump from personal bankruptcy, and one reportedly traveled to a number of Trump's campaign stops, ...

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The Daily 202: Trump's speech to Congress highlights influence of Ivanka, Bannon - Washington Post

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The Daily 202: Trump's speech to Congress highlights influence of Ivanka, Bannon
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Sebastian Gorka, the former national security editor for the conservative Breitbart News outlet and a close ally of Bannon, now occupies a senior job in the White House. During a Fox News hit on the night of the inauguration, he praised Trump for using ...

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EU, Pressured from Inside and Out, Considers a Reboot - New York Times

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EU, Pressured from Inside and Out, Considers a Reboot
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Core areas for cooperation could include defense, with European armies readied for joint missions, and the fight against organized crime, which would require deeper cooperation between police and intelligence services and the use of “fully ...

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Donald Trump - Trump wrongly claims historic defense increase

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The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False | Trump wrongly claims historic defense increase
In his address to Congress, President Donald Trump said his budget "calls for one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history." Trump’s budget director Mick Mulvaney gave reporters a broad overview of the president’s budget Feb. 27. He said the White House wants to spend $603 billion on defense. Mulvaney compared that to the $549 billion allowed under spending caps based on a 2011 budget control law. On that basis, Trump seeks nearly a 10 percent increase. But when we looked at past budgets, we found there have been much heftier jumps in military spending. ...
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Trump Candidate To Head Border Patrol Is Under FBI Investigation
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One of three candidates reportedly being vetted by President Donald Trump to head the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency — which oversees the U.S. Border Patrol — is beinginvestigated by federal authorities over his former agency's use of ...

President Trump's speech to Congress was a very good moment for him — objectively - Washington Post

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President Trump's speech to Congress was a very good moment for him — objectively
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It bears noting at the top that these polls aren't representative samples of the Americanelectorate and are more Republican, because crowds for such speeches skew toward the president's party. But, even with that caveat, the reviews were strong ...
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A Touched Donald Trump Thanks the Media for Forgetting He Is Donald Trump - Slate Magazine (blog)

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A Touched Donald Trump Thanks the Media for Forgetting He Is Donald Trump
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Did you watch Trump's address? Oh, it was magnificent—remember how you felt watching the producers of La La Land nobly hand Moonlight the Oscars they had rightfully won? This was twice as inspiring. Perhaps three times as much. Trump was kinder.

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Trump's Chief Strategist Bannon has a Negative Effect on National Security
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Limiting the power of highly regarded and experienced officials such as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Director of National Intelligence was one of the most dangerous moves Trumphas made within his first 100 days in office. Bannon's ...

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Trey Gowdy says 'it's too early' for a special prosecutor to investigate alleged ties between Trump, Russia - Greenville Journal

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Trey Gowdy says 'it's too early' for a special prosecutor to investigate alleged ties between Trump, Russia
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Some lawmakers are calling for a special prosecutor to head the investigation into Trump'scampaign advisers and Russia. “It's too early. Special counsel only applies to a criminal investigation,” Gowdy said, adding that the FBI investigates crimes ...
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NATO Calls on Russia to Recognize Georgian Borders

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A top NATO official on Tuesday called on authorities in Georgia's Russian-occupied region of Abkhazia to rethink plans to close two crossing points into Tbilisi-controlled territory. "Closure of two crossing points along the administrative boundary line of the Abkhazia region of Georgia ... which are used daily by hundreds of citizens, will have a negative impact on the situation on the ground and stability in the region," NATO spokesperson Oana Lungescu said. Adding that the move will restrict freedom of movement and impact the livelihoods of local residents, Lungescu also called on Russia to acknowledge the former Soviet republic's internationally recognized borders by reversing "its recognition of the South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions of Georgia as independent states." Pro-Russian Abkhaz authorities announced plans in December to close two of four crossing points between Abkhazia's predominantly ethnic Georgian Gali district and its adjoining Zugdidi district to the south. VOA's Georgian Service has reported that the proposed closures, if implemented, would restrict ethnic Georgian youth and elderly citizens from accessing public schools and medical facilities. One conflict resolution expert told VOA the proposed closures would lengthen those commutes by up to 30 kilometers, and that the move may be aimed to hasten the departure of ethnic-Georgians still residing in Abkhazia. "Such a unilateral decision would go against commitments to work toward enhanced security and improved living conditions for the conflict-affected population," EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Saturday. "Furthermore, it would be contrary to efforts to normalize the situation by creating an atmosphere that is not conducive to longer-term conflict resolution and overall stability in the region." In January, the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi conveyed "deep concern" over the proposed closure after Ambassador Ian Kelly made a visit to the crossing points. This report was produced in collaboration with VOA's Georgian Service.

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NATO Calls on Russia to Recognize Georgian Borders - VOA News - Voice of America

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NATO Calls on Russia to Recognize Georgian Borders - VOA News
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Comment comes as top official presses pro-Russian Abkhazians to rethink plans to close two administrative boundary crossings to breakaway region.
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Хакасия ждет Владимира Путина - Хакасия-Информ - Агентство новостей "Хакасия-Информ"

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СМИ: Белый дом не готовит встречу Трампа и Путина - Новое Время

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СМИ: Белый дом не готовит встречу Трампа и Путина
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В Белом доме опровергли сообщения РФ о подготовке встречи между президентами США и России Дональда Трампа и Владимира Путина, пишет газета Wall Street Journal со ссылкой на источник, который решил остаться неизвестным.
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Trump leaves Russia out of the speech - Washington Examiner

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Trump leaves Russia out of the speech
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The omission of Russia was presumably meant to ensure Democrats will not have the controversial topic at their disposal as they review Trump's speech and prepare their own rebuttals. Based on the nature of the issue and the questions that remain ...

End of Pax Americana? - Times of Malta

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End of Pax Americana?
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Today's President Putin and his Russia are at least partly the West's creation. It was a missed opportunity in the mid-1990s not to have drawn Russia into (the then) burgeoning western fold and invited it to join Nato. Now we must deal with Putin as he is.
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Nikki Haley: 'We are not afraid to call out Russia' - Aljazeera.com

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Nikki Haley: 'We are not afraid to call out Russia'
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US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the new administration of President Donald Trump "will not hesitate to call out Russia if we see something wrong". Speaking to Al Jazeera's Washington editor James Bays after Trump's first address to ...

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Can President Trump Fracture the Russia-China Power Bloc? - theTrumpet.com

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Can President Trump Fracture the Russia-China Power Bloc?
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The strain intensified considerably in 2014 after Russia unilaterally annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and sent its military into eastern parts of the country to support pro-Russianinsurgents. The U.S. and other Western nations responded by levying ...
Enemy of the Year: Why Russia?Antiwar.com
End of Pax Americana?Times of Malta
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Turkey's presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Feb. 22 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin would handle the issue during a High-Level Cooperation Council (HLCC) meeting expected between March 8 and 9 ...
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Coats Stuck in Middle as Trump Takes On Intelligence Agencies

Bloomberg-Feb 28, 2017
Coats, 73, will face tough questioning because President Donald Trump has nominated him to supervise the nation's 17 intelligence agencies ...

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Coats Stuck in Middle as Trump Takes On Intelligence Agencies

Bloomberg-Feb 28, 2017
Coats, 73, will face tough questioning because President Donald Trump has nominated him to supervise the nation's 17 intelligence agencies ...

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Thomasson: Trumpintelligence community must get along

Post-Bulletin-Feb 28, 2017
JFK was furious with the intelligence community after the Bay of Pigs fiasco in Cuba, and both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were ...
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Trump's War With the Intelligence Community Is His Biggest Yet

<a href="http://NBCNews.com" rel="nofollow">NBCNews.com</a>-Feb 16, 2017
Less than a month in office, President Trump has engaged in plenty of fights already — with the courts, Mexico, the media, and even Nordstrom.
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Trump's nominee for intelligence chief says Russia definitely tried to ...

Los Angeles Times-22 hours ago
Dan Coats, President Trump's nominee to head the U.S. intelligence community, said at his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday that he ...
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Schiff: Trump's attacks on intelligence community are 'deeply ...

The Hill-Feb 19, 2017
Schiff argued that Trump is undermining morale within the intelligence community by raising questions about its loyalty and patriotism.
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Trump intelligence nominee supports probes on Russian interference

Reuters-Feb 28, 2017
Trump denounced intelligence agencies for their assessment that Russia sought to influence the election on his behalf, prompting concerns ...
Is the 'Deep State' Moving Against Trump?
In-Depth-Newsweek-Feb 28, 2017
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Trump's Russian honeymoon may be over as Moscow media put ...

Los Angeles Times-1 hour ago
When Donald Trump was inaugurated, Russian media fell over themselves ... U.S. intelligence agencies determined last year that Moscow had sought to .... The Reuters news agency said the German envoy was left with the ...
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US Allies Conduct Intelligence Operation Against Trump Staff and ...

Newsweek-Feb 15, 2017
U.S. Allies Conduct Intelligence Operation Against Trump Staff and Associates, ... at least some of whom the intelligence services now consider to be agents of ... For example, long before the president's inauguration, German ...
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The relationship between President Trump and Europe

Modern Diplomacy-Feb 27, 2017
Not to mention the Dreyfus affair, a late operation of the French intelligence services which exposed the pro-German network in their own ...
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Trump, Putin & New Cold War: What The New Yorker gets wrong

RT-Feb 28, 2017
Trump, Putin & New Cold War: What The New Yorker gets wrong .... Critics of the report had repeatedly noted that intelligence agencies, in the ... later that month, he addressed its members in German, the language that he ...
Enemy of the Year: Why Russia?
<a href="http://Antiwar.com" rel="nofollow">Antiwar.com</a>-17 hours ago
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Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian ...

New York Times-Feb 15, 2017
At one point last summer, Mr. Trump said at a campaign event that he hoped Russian intelligence services had stolen Hillary Clinton's emails ...
Justice Department warned White House that Flynn could be ...
Highly Cited-Washington Post-Feb 14, 2017
Moscow rejects media reports on Trump aides' ties with Russian ...
International-Russia Beyond the Headlines-Feb 15, 2017
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