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Children Brutalized by IS Will Need Urgent Help, Experts Say
Saturday August 27th, 2016 at 7:49 AM

Voice Of America

The chilling image of five children staring into the camera with guns in their upraised arms as five grown men dressed in orange jumpsuits kneel in front of them, about to be executed, was posted by Islamic State extremists almost as a badge of honor.

According to the SITE counterterrorism website where the image was released Friday, the young boys were British, Egyptian, Kurdish, Tunisian and Uzbek — and featured in an IS video from Raqqa, Syria.

IS has increasingly featured children in its constant barrage of propaganda, a deeply disturbing sign of the extremist group’s profound level of psychological warfare.

The exact number of children who have been put through the Islamic State’s child soldier boot camp is unknown. The German magazine Der Spiegel quoted experts as saying about 1,500 boys were serving the militant group in Iraq and Syria.

One of the experts VOA talked with suspects there are that many in Iraq alone.

As the Iraqi Security Forces, with Kurdish troops and U.S.-led coalition support, converge on the IS stronghold of Mosul, there are growing concerns about what will happen to the children who have been forced to live under IS.

IS social media distributed photos in several languages of children holding placards in Islamic State territories offering "congratulations" on the deaths of Americans, apparently in reference to the Orlando mass shooting on June 12, 2016.

“There is no way we are prepared to manage the scale of what we see in front of us,” John Horgan, a professor at Georgia State University and an expert on terrorism and political violence, told VOA. "We are looking at a level of [child] mobilization that is unprecedented and increasing.”

Snipers and suicide bombers

According to Farah Dakhlallah, UNICEF’s Middle East and North Africa spokeswoman, child recruitment has increased across the Middle East, and the roles that children are recruited into are changing.

“In previous years, children were in support roles,” Dakhlallah told VOA by phone from Jordan. “But in the past two years, they are taking on much more active roles, carrying weapons, manning checkpoints, being used as snipers and as suicide bombers.”

In Syria, children are increasingly being used in armed and combat roles by different parties to the conflict, at times recruited as young as seven years old, Dakhlallah said.

“Often we think this is happening without parental consent,” she said. But there may be instances where the parents have been complicit, further complicating the psychological picture.

"I've been studying terrorism for 20 years; I have seen nothing like this," Horgan said. "This is altogether different."

Displaced children, who fled from the Islamic State violence, gather at a refugee camp in the Makhmour area near Mosul, Iraq, June 17, 2016.

Unprepared

While organizations like UNICEF provide a level of psychosocial services to children who have escaped the conflict, experts warn that some children may have been severely brutalized.

“I don’t think we have a real understanding of what these kids have been through,” Horgan told VOA. “We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg.”

IS has been grooming, training and indoctrinating children for several years and has also widened its recruitment approach to include children, encouraging entire families to join IS.

Children who have escaped have described the horror they have been through.

“Some children were sexually assaulted as part of their training. Some were beaten by sticks. They slept on flea-ridden mattresses and were beaten and bullied if they faltered even for a second,” Horgan said.

“IS executed children who showed signs of disillusionment or of missing their parent,” he added.

“These children did not emerge out of the ether in the last couple of months,” Horgan said. “[IS militants] have been grooming and indoctrinating kids for a few years now. I think it’s an investment in their future.”

А YouTube screen grab from an Islamic State propaganda video shows an IS recruiter with two child soldiers. Children as young as eight years old are reportedly being trained to serve in roles ranging from spies, to front line soldiers, to suicide bombers.

UNICEF efforts

In Iraq, UNICEF says it is working with the Iraqi government to improve juvenile detention centers and programs for children in detention, including those on security-related charges.

The U.N. agency is also advocating for training front-line security forces on child rights.

But Amnesty International has criticized Iraq’s judiciary structure as weak and opaque, and security officials as barely coping with the flood of people fleeing IS control. Hundreds of males have already disappeared from unofficial security screening points.

Asked whether the humanitarian agencies were prepared for the wave of children who will be emerging from Mosul as security operations ramp up to retake the IS stronghold, Horgan had only one word to say:

“No.”

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Puerto Rico: An island’s exodus
Saturday August 27th, 2016 at 7:18 AM

With its manufacturing base depleted and its economy shrinking, people are leaving in droves

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - JUNE 30: Sitting near a portrait of Puerto Rican Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla, Juan Menendez Perez and Francisco Almonte, (L-R) who are without jobs, wait to search for available work at an unemployment office a day after the governor gave a televised speech regarding the governments $72 billion debt on June 30, 2015 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Governor said in his speech that the people will have to sacrifice and share in the responsibilities for pulling the island out of debt. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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Locals at an employment office in San Juan, the island capital

prinkled among the sun-kissed tourists on Southwest Airlines flight 982 sit a handful of families and a few young men and women who are leaving Puerto Rico with no plan to return.

The flight is one of dozens depleting the island of a most valuable resource: its residents. Puerto Rico’s population has been declining for a decade but that has accelerated as its financial and economic crisis bubbled up from simmer to boil.

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Its population has fallen 9 per cent over the past decade, a loss that includes 200,000 working age adults — more than the entire population of Salt Lake City. In the past year alone, about 100,000 people have left the Caribbean archipelago, many of them bound for Florida, Texas and New York.

Kathy Beckman, a flight attendant with Southwest who jets between San Juan and Orlando, has seen the exodus from the US territory at first hand. “Very rarely are any of [the flights] empty.”

The fiscal collapse of Puerto Rico, which suffers under a debt and unfunded pension burden of more than $110bn, has prompted one of the largest migratory movements within the US in decades, demographers say.

“In so many ways this is a 21st century version of the Okies and the Dust Bowl [migrations] in the US in the 1930s,” says Harley Shaiken, chair of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. “The difference is these people are crossing an ocean.”

The brain drain is acute and is having a severe effect on every aspect of Puerto Rican life. The island has lost paediatric doctors, and the island’s only air ambulance stopped services this year. Schoolteachers outside San Juan, the capital, have had to turn off the lights in the rain — a result of outdated and damaged fuseboxes.

Puerto Rico has admitted defeat in its battle to stay current on its debts and is preparing forrestructuring talks with creditors. But none of the proposals by the US commonwealth or its lenders, including slashing its debts or an interest rate holiday, are likely to kick-start growth. Advisers to both sides concede that without being able to halt the economic rot — output has been in near-constant decline since 2007 — they could be back in negotiations within the next decade.

And that is before policymakers consider rapidly depleting federal funding for healthcare and the prospect of the end of a business tax that has provided roughly a fifth of the island’s revenue.

“Puerto Rico is not Greece or Argentina but it can get to Greece or Argentina [levels] if we do not act,” Alejandro García Padilla, the island’s governor, says in an interview at La Fortaleza, his official residence in Old San Juan. “The numbers are the numbers and they underscore what Puerto Rico needs. Something less may help in the short term but then there is a high probability that Puerto Rico will need a restructuring again.”

Subsidy blow

The fiscal crisis has its roots in the end of a package of US tax incentives in 2006 that had made Puerto Rico attractive for manufacturers. Introduced in 1976, the incentive brought a wave of US multinationals to the island, including Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

By the early 1990s more than a tenth of the jobs on the island had a direct connection to the subsidy, according to the US Government Accountability Office. But its phase-out prompted companies to slash jobs — increasing the effects of the global financial crisis.

Puerto Rico borrowed to keep services running and to try to stimulate growth. More than $28bn was added to its debt load between 2006 and 2014.

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - JULY 01: Yessenia Puente (C) walks up the stairs to her apartment as movers from La Rosa del Monte moving company pack up her apartment as she prepares to move to Orlando, Florida this weekend on July 1, 2015 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Puente joins a mass exodus of people fleeing the island due to increasing economic hardships and a financial crisis that has resulted in an estimated $72 billion public debt for the Puerto Rican government, which the governor has said is unpayable. The workers for the moving company, La Rosa del Monte, said that she is number 1465 that the company has packed for Orlando since the beginning of the year. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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A woman prepares for her move to the mainland

The island’s Government Development Bank funded a series of projects, including a $415m convention centre, golf courses and hotel projects, several of which failed. The GDB is now on the verge of collapse.

The exodus of residents is adding to the island’s downward spiral. Andrew Haughwout, a researcher with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, warned that migration would “reduce things like [gross national product] growth and that will have negative implications on the fiscal situation and that has feedback into GNP”. Mr Haughwout says Puerto Rico’s economic decline will probably worsen.

“At some point the debt service burden becomes so great it is a deterrent to growth, it actually retards growth,” says Jim Millstein, founder of Millstein and Co, which is advising the commonwealth. “The people of Puerto Rico are voting with their feet. The economy is so stagnant that it is driving people off the island, to Florida and Chicago and New York.”

As part of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (Promesa, Spanish for promise), which was signed into law in June, Puerto Rico will have the ability to cut its debts.

Before its passage, Puerto Rico and other US territories did not have access to bankruptcy protections afforded to US cities and public corporations. The law created a seven-person board — four Republican and three Democratic nominees — to oversee the debt reduction plan. It will have the final say on the island’s budgets and can order public sector lay-offs or recommend privatisations.

“We don’t know if it will be a draconian board that starts disposing of government assets at fire sale, starts cutting government jobs and contracts, or if it will be more flexible and slower in taking those actions,” says Miguel Soto-Class, president of the Center for a New Economy, a Puerto Rico think-tank.

Status anxiety

While the passage of Promesa reduced tension over debts, however, it inflamed arguments over Puerto Rico’s status within the US.

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - JULY 01: A for sale sign is seen hanging from a balcony next to a Puerto Rican flag in Old San Juan as the island's residents deal with the government's $72 billion debt on July 1, 2015 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Governor of Puerto Rico Alejandro Garc?a Padilla said in a speech recently that the people of Puerto Rico will have to make sacrifices and share the responsibilities to help pull the island out of debt. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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A 'for sale' sign hangs from a balcony next to the Puerto Rico flag

The issue is animating the island’s election campaign, in which the New Progressive party’s candidate for governor opposes Promesa. Ricardo Rosselló, an MIT graduate whose father was governor for eight years from 1993, has gained ground among voters who believe Promesa smacks of colonialism. Mr Rosselló says the island’s debts can be paid without Promesa — and he also supports changing Puerto Rico’s legal status as a territory to a state.

“[Mr Rosselló’s campaign] has publicly stated that the debt can be paid but it’s unclear what specific strategy they’ll pursue come January if elected,” says Héctor Cordero-Guzmán, a professor at Baruch College, New York. “They haven’t come up with a lot of details.”

Mr Rosselló will face David Bernier of the ruling Popular Democratic party. Analysts with Height Securities, an investment firm, note that polls show Mr Rosselló’s party could make a sweep of the Puerto Rican House, Senate and governorship.

Creditors met in Citigroup’s headquarters in Manhattan in June to resume the difficult talks over restructuring Puerto Rico’s debt. What was expected to be an intimate gathering of the largest holders of the island’s debt, including Franklin Templeton Investments, Oppenheimer and Goldman Sachs, instead included dozens of bondholder representatives, many in competing positions. They have yet to formally meet again.

When they do, negotiations will be tense. A fight is under way to determine where each creditor ranks within the near $70bn debt mountain, a point complicated by the number of bond-issuing agencies. Eighteen Puerto Rican authorities have issued debt, including the water and power utilities and the transport and highway authority, as well as obligations that were meant for the commonwealth’s general use and are backed by constitutional guarantees.

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 02: People protest outside of Wall Street against cutbacks and austerity measures forced onto the severely indebted island of Puerto Rico on December 2, 2015 in New York City. Puerto Rico made a $355 million payment on Tuesday on its bond debt to stave off a default. Officials have warned that the commonwealth's fiscal position remain dire. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Protests on Wall Street against austerity measures imposed on the island

In July, when the government missed nearly $1bn of payments, it paid off other lower-rated debts instead of paying general obligation bond holders. US investors fear it could set a dangerousprecedent in the municipal bond market, as states with large pension obligations face the threat of insolvency.

The island has been hit with more than half a dozen lawsuits from bond insurers and hedge funds, including Aurelius Capital Management and Monarch Alternative Capital. These have been served before the expiration of a stay of litigation, which prevents lawsuits against the commonwealth while Promesa’s oversight board gets up and running.

Despite the defaults, Puerto Rican bonds have been among the best performing in the municipal bond market this year, according to Barclays. The bonds, which have returned 8.7 per cent in 2016, are exempt from federal, state and local taxes. The tax benefit was — for a time — a boon to municipal bond fund managers across the US who often struggled to find enough of a given state’s bonds to fill a portfolio.

Bondholders are waiting to see who will make up the oversight board, with Richard Ravitch, a former lieutenant-governor of New York, and Anthony Williams, former chief financial officer of Washington DC, among the names being circulated as possible appointees. Several fear a repeat of the bankruptcy proceedings in Detroit or Stockton, California, when creditors suffered heavy losses.

Although Promesa protects bondholder interests, it also gives the commonwealth “cramdown” provisions that give the oversight board the ability to seek court permission to force deeper cuts on bondholders. It is the part of the law advisers to Puerto Rico expect to rely on significantly to cut its debt.

“If . . . what we proposed is in their best interest and it follows Puerto Rican constitutional law, the judge can force it down,” Mr Millstein says. “This is exactly what happened in Detroit.”

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - JUNE 29: Rosa Arias listens as Puerto Rican Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla addresses the island's residents in a televised broadcast regarding the governments $73 billion debt on June 29, 2015 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The governor said that the people on the island will have to sacrifice and share in the responsibilities for pulling the island out of debt. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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Rosa Arias listens to a broadast by Alejandro Garcia Padilla, the Puerto Rica governor, on trying to pull the island out of debt

While politicians and bondholders strive to find a solution to its debt problems, the exodus from Puerto Rico is expected to continue, damaging the prospects for growth.

The New York Fed recently warned that “if people continue to leave the island at the pace that has been set in recent years, the economic potential of Puerto Rico will only continue to deteriorate”.

Bondholders fear the focus on pensions

Puerto Rico’s problems have yet to infect the $3.7tn municipal bond market, a vital source of funding for infrastructure projects for US cities and public agencies.

But the island has become a bellwether of how US municipal bankruptcies might unfurl, as states and major cities — including Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut and Kentucky — grapple with outsized debts. At present, and unlike cities and municipalities, states do not have access to federal bankruptcy protections. Investors will therefore be scrutinising proceedings in Puerto Rico, which under Congressional authorisation gained access to bankruptcy protections similar to those under Chapter 9. The fear is that a precedent is being created where pensioners rank above bondholders.

In Detroit, pensioners gave up annual cost-of-living increases and took a cut in monthly cheques while bondholders faced recoveries of less than 74 cents on the dollar. Puerto Rico’s latest proposal to bondholders envisaged haircuts of 19 to 40 per cent of holdings.

“If in practice [pensions] are getting priority treatment, and if you take the next step by making this a matter of law . . . it springs $3.5tn to $4tn [of pension priorities ahead of bonds],” says Stephen Spencer, of Houlihan Lokey, which is advising bondholders of Puerto Rico’s electricity utility. “That is equivalent to the entire municipal bond market. That is an enormous impact on the creditworthiness of municipal bonds.”

Defaults on municipal bonds are still rare and often well telegraphed, factors that have attracted overseas investors into the market, even though they do not enjoy special tax benefits. But the risingcosts of pensions , especially as interest rates fall, is another funding headache for cities and states.

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The Strongman of Instagram - WSJ
Saturday August 27th, 2016 at 6:37 AM

GROZNY, Russia— Ramzan Kadyrov, the beefy, bearded president of Chechnya, strikes a macho pose online. He points rifles, threatens political opponents and knocks the tar out of a government underling in some of the nearly 8,000 posts that have made him Instagram’s most prolific political strongman.

Mr. Kadyrov, a vassal of Russian President Vladimir Putin , occasionally reveals a soft side, too, cuddling kittens, nuzzling a horse and praying. He answers constituents’ questions and complaints in posts to his 1.9 million followers.

“Our leader knows that the key to developing the region is constant interaction with the people,” Chechen Information Minister Djambulat Umarov said. “That’s how he knows what their problems are, what their worries are.”

In Chechnya, the continuous stream of charming, callous and menacing posts by Mr. Kadyrov and his supporters serves as a tool of political control, a warning to those who would stray from the party line and an example of how social media can be as much a tool of repression as of liberation.

In one post, a rifle’s crosshairs were superimposed over a video of an opposition politician. A supporter’s social-media post showed a man forced to walk on a treadmill in his underwear while praising Mr. Putin.

Mr. Kadyrov, who relies on Mr. Putin for his authority and funding, humiliates opponents online in an apparent display of strength. His power has eroded with Russia’s struggling economy, and Mr. Kadyrov has become increasingly afraid of losing support among his inner circle, say people here.

“His obsession with social media is simple: He likes it, but it also gives him a place to control the news coming from Chechnya for the Kremlin, and show people that he’s the boss,” Human Rights Watch analyst Tanya Lokshina said.

The 39-year-old Chechen leader boasts a social-media operation that employs people who provide support for Mr. Kadyrov and attacks on his detractors, people familiar with the matter said. The work is headed by Magomed Daudov, the Chechen president’s right-hand man, these people said. Mr. Daudov couldn’t be reached for comment.

The intended effect is spontaneity, said a person familiar with the operation. Mr. Kadyrov’s Instagram account looks personal but is assembled with the assistance of cameramen, photographers and writers who help define the president’s online image, including Mr. Kadyrov’s publicity stunts, such as photos with Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona and a birthday bash with actress Hilary Swank, who later said she regretted taking part.

His account shows him praying at his private mosque, which is shaped like the Kaaba in Mecca, the most holy pilgrimage site in the Muslim world.

Mr. Kadyrov in one post challenged his sports minister Salambek Ismailov to a boxing match. In the ring, the Chechen leader delivered punishing jabs, punches and left hooks that left Mr. Ismailov cowering. Mr. Kadyrov berated his underling for mistakes at his job, according to the post’s accompanying comments.

In another Instagram post, Mr. Kadyrov showed a video of Konstantin Senchenko, a city councilman from Siberia, publicly apologizing to Mr. Kadyrov. Mr. Senchenko, a political opponent, had called Mr. Kadyrov the shame of Russia and accused Chechnya of living on federal subsidies.

Instagram declined to respond to a request for comment.

While Mr. Kadyrov also is ubiquitous on mainstream media, his social-media reach is more extensive and reaches to greater Russia and beyond.

Two of Mr. Kadyrov’s associates met recently at a restaurant in Chechnya’s capital, Grozny, browsing the internet for viral videos and pictures that might please their boss. One of the men handed his LG smartphone to another.

“What do you think of this?” he asked, pointing to the tiny screen. His companion nodded approvingly.

“We may send him videos, texts that we think he’d like on one topic or another, on issues that are particularly relevant, but at the end of the day he’s the one who pushes the button,” said a man who has contributed to the account. “He’s the one who decides what goes online.”

Tide turns

Social media was seen as a force for democratic change abroad, beginning with Iran’s Green Movement in 2009 and continuing through the tumult of Arab Spring. Twitter and Facebook were hailed as a way for protesters to organize and share stories and photographs in countries with little freedom and where the media is tightly controlled.

When demonstrations erupted in Tunisia and Egypt in late 2010 and early 2011, protesters with smartphones ran rings around government-controlled media. Both regimes fell.

In 2011 and 2012, middle-class Russians flooded streets in Moscow and elsewhere, aided by Facebook and other social media, to protest Mr. Putin’s announced return as president after serving as prime minister.

The tide began to turn when governments learned they, too, could employ social-media as a political tool. Bahrain authorities, for instance, launched online campaigns that named protesters and mocked them to shame their families. Iran boosted surveillance of its social-media users and organized online supporters.

With parliamentary elections scheduled for September, the Russian government is taking extra measures to make sure that, however unlikely, protesters don’t again organize online and return to Moscow’s streets.

Unlike in China, which allows only government-approved social media, Russians have relative freedom to wander the internet. Kremlin leaders have sought, with mixed results, to influence public opinion through pro-government accounts and by keeping watch over online material seen as anti-Kremlin.

Social-media surveillance has grown under Mr. Putin and so have prosecutions. A Siberian blogger, for instance, was sentenced last December to five years in prison after criticizing Russia’s intervention in Ukraine over YouTube. He was charged with inciting extremism.

Russia’s security services have database systems that enable authorities to search keywords on social media, though they are mostly limited to Vkontakte, a predominantly Russian language social networking platform similar to Facebook, said Andrei Soldatov, an expert on Russia’s internet.

“They’re not entirely effective, so the effects are spotty,” he said, “but they’re doing the best they can, especially ahead of elections in September.”

Earlier this year Russian authorities hoped to get Twitter and Facebook to store its data in Russia, which would make it easier to track the data of dissents. They have met with Twitter representatives, including Colin Crowell, Twitter’s vice president of global public policy, a state communications agency said. There has been no deal so far. Facebook didn’t answer a request for comment. Twitter declined to comment.

In Chechnya, where Mr. Kadyrov is running for re-election, there is little chance of public protest or of his defeat. Since coming into power in 2007, Mr. Kadyrov has tried to silence critics and opponents through killings and kidnappings, human rights analysts said. He has denied the accusations.

Mr. Kadyrov fought the Russian government as a separatist in the first Chechen war from 1994 to 1996. After negotiations, his father, Akhmat, was installed by Mr. Putin to usher in Kremlin control over the mostly Muslim region in 2000 and was killed four years later.

In 2007, Mr. Putin appointed Ramzan Kadyrov, who had just turned 30, the minimum age for a regional governor.

Since Chechnya’s separatist violence of the 1990s and 2000s, Mr. Putin has drawn loyalty from the Chechen elite by flooding the region with government earnings from abundant oil revenue. The federal subsidies have allowed Mr. Kadyrov to oversee high-profile construction projects in Grozny—and to indulge in such hobbies as horse racing and stocking a private zoo, according to his Instagram feed and local media reports.

Sensitive to dissent

With a prolonged economic crisis triggered by a collapse in oil prices and reduced cash flow from Moscow, Mr. Kadyrov has become especially sensitive to signs of dissent, according to a former state official. Mr. Kadyrov, worried about betrayal, wields the threat of online humiliation, the official said.

Mr. Kadyrov’s Instagram feed provides a real-time tally of who is in favor and who isn’t. “If you’re a state or regional agency or a ministry and Kadyrov unfollows you, you know heads are about to roll,” said a former state press service director.

From afar, the social-media world of Mr. Kadyrov might appear comic. HBO TV comedian John Oliver recently lampooned a post that showed the Chechen leader asking for help to find a missing cat. A post on Mr. Kadyrov’s Instagram account lampooned him back.

The lighter side of Mr. Kadyrov’s social-media presence, however, masks his power. He has an estimated 20,000 soldiers at his disposal, analysts said. Though formally part of government law enforcement, the soldiers—along with officers in local agencies—are loyal to Mr. Kadyrov, experts say.

“We can’t talk about how bad things are here,” said a man in the Chechen city of Shatoi, who only gave his name as Alkhazar. “We can’t complain. Because the second we do in person or over the internet, we’ll disappear.”

Ramazan Djalaldinov, a villager, complained of corrupt local officials to Mr. Putin on YouTube. In one video, Mr. Djalaldinov panned a camera over his impoverished town Kenkhi on the eastern border of Chechnya.

“Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin,” he narrated, “this is the situation that the residents of our village are in.”

Weeks later, Mr. Djalaldinov ended up in hiding. His family told a local TV station that masked men set fire to the family’s house, forcing them to leave Chechnya. After publicly asking for forgiveness on Mr. Kadyrov’s Instagram account, he returned to his village, which has since been refurbished.

Write to Thomas Grove at thomas.grove@wsj.com

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» Russian War Games Surround Ukraine
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mikenova shared this story from In Homeland Security. Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko warned twice last week that Russia was building up its forces on the two nations’ shared border.

» SUBMARINES: Narco Subs Threaten Israel
26/08/16 09:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from StrategyPage.com. None

» Trump's immigration stance: Is it the total reversal claimed by the media? - Fox News
26/08/16 09:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Fox News Trump's immigration stance: Is it the total reversal claimed by the media? Fox News The latest debate about Donald Trump involves one of journalism's favorite words: fli...

» EU should drop Russia sanctions, Slovak PM says after meeting Putin
26/08/16 09:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on Friday renewed his call for the European Union to end sanctions against Russia after meeting President Vladimir Putin in Mos...

» The Daily Vertical: Glazyev's Novorossia Fail
26/08/16 06:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday.

» Путин и Кадыров провели встречу поздним вечером в Кремле - Росбалт.RU
26/08/16 06:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Росбалт.RU Путин и Кадыров провели встречу поздним вечером в Кремле Росбалт.RU Президент России Владимир Путин 25 августа поздно вечером провел встречу с врио главы Чечни Рамзаном ...

» Life in Prison for Argentine ex-General in 'Dirty War' Verdict
26/08/16 06:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A retired Argentine general has received another life sentence for killings, kidnappings and torture committed during the country's crackdown on leftists decades ago. Eighty-nine-year-old...

» What Has Kadyrov Been Up To? Quietly Cultivating Regional and Kremlin Officials; Now a Meeting with Putin
26/08/16 05:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Interpreter. It's been many weeks since Ramzan Kadyrov, acting president of the Chechen Republic, has been in the news. Now late tonight after months of quietly rallying his own troops and cultivating ...

» Syria talks: Kerry and Lavrov to thrash out deal on defeating Isis
26/08/16 05:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. US and Russia meet in Geneva hoping for agreement on how to end the civil war and pave the way for a political solution US secretary of state John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, ...

» Russia sees Syria war solution closer after thaw in ties with Turkey - Chicago Tribune
26/08/16 05:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. RTE.ie Russia sees Syria war solution closer after thaw in ties with Turkey Chicago Tribune Russia says a solution to Syria's 5 1/2-year-long war may be getting closer after relations...

» Russia's New Education Minister Gives Stalin a Nod - Voice of America
26/08/16 05:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Voice of America Russia's New Education Minister Gives Stalin a Nod Voice of America President Vladimir Putin's choice of Olga Vasilyeva as Russia's education and science minister is ...

» Besieged Town of Daraya Agrees to Surrender to Syrian Government
26/08/16 05:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia. As the rebel-held town planned for the evacuation of its 8,000 remaining residents, a bombing that killed 14 in Aleppo served as a reminder of what Daraya had faced for four years.

» Vladimir Putin threatens war with Ukraine to get sanctions lifted
26/08/16 05:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. ANALYSIS/OPINION: Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't want to bite off any more of Ukraine — he can't afford it. That hasn't stopped him from making th...

» Iran confrontations reveal Obama nuclear deal having little effect on Tehran's behavior
26/08/16 05:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. A pair of dangerously close encounters between the Iranian and U.S. navies in the Persian Gulf this week have raised fresh questions about Tehran's intentions, a ...

» Turkey has more spies in Germany than Stasi had during Cold War: expert
26/08/16 05:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from intelNews.org. The Turkish intelligence service currently employs more operatives in Germany than the East German spy agency did at the height of the Cold War, according to a German expert on espionage.

» A Theory of The Drone
26/08/16 05:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Intelligence Analysis and Reporting. Title: A Theory of The Drone Author: Gregoire Chamayou Chamayou, Grégoire (2015), translated by Janet Lloyd. A Theory of The Drone...

» Baltimore City Council plans hearing on undisclosed police surveillance plane program - Baltimore Sun
26/08/16 05:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi aclu report - Google News. Baltimore Sun Baltimore City Council plans hearing on undisclosed police surveillance plane program Baltimore Sun We must vet this program — with the help of organizations li...

» Court sets September 13 deadline for Clinton FBI emails - CNN
26/08/16 05:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. CNN Court sets September 13 deadline for Clinton FBI emails CNN The order will likely push up the release of some of the 14,900 new documents that the FBI turned over to the State Depart...

» Syrian Kurds clash with Turkish forces
26/08/16 05:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DEBKAFile. August 26, 2016, 9:13 AM (IDT) Syrian Kurdish militia commanders are flouting the ultimatum US Vice President Joe Biden handed them Wednesday, Aug. 24 to retreat to east of the Euphrates or else...

» Eight police officers killed, 45 wounded in PKK bomb attack in Turkey
26/08/16 05:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DEBKAFile. August 26, 2016, 9:42 AM (IDT) Eight police officers were killed and 45 people, two of whom are in critical condition, were wounded in bomb-laden truck attack carried out by the Kurdish PK...

» China Has Returned to Reform Mode - Bloomberg
26/08/16 05:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Bloomberg China Has Returned to Reform Mode Bloomberg Having stabilized the economy with a mix of fiscal support and easy monetary settings, China's leaders appear to be revivi...

» Ex-Military Officers Convicted of Human Rights Crimes During Argentina Dictatorship - New York Times
26/08/16 05:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. New York Times Ex- Military Officers Convicted of Human Rights Crimes During Argentina Dictatorship New York Times Nora de Cortinas, president of the Argentine group Mothers of...

» With Operation in Syria, Erdogan Shows His New Power Over Turkey's Military - New York Times
26/08/16 05:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. New York Times With Operation in Syria, Erdogan Shows His New Power Over Turkey's Military New York Times KARKAMIS, Turkey — In recent years, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ord...

» Chinese man arrested in Hong Kong over FACC cyber attack in Austria - Reuters
26/08/16 05:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Reuters Chinese man arrested in Hong Kong over FACC cyber attack in Austria Reuters VIENNA A Chinese citizen has been arrested in Hong Kong in connection with a cyber attack th...

» CIA Declassifies Presidential Briefings from the 1970s - Voice of America
26/08/16 05:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from cia - Google News. Voice of America CIA Declassifies Presidential Briefings from the 1970s Voice of America The high-level CIA briefings, released Wednesday, do not provide much insight into how much they ...

» Donald Trump, Wavering on Immigration, Finds Anger in All Corners - New York Times
26/08/16 05:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. New York Times Donald Trump, Wavering on Immigration, Finds Anger in All Corners New York Times Donald J. Trump began his presidential campaign with strong language on immigratio...

» Iran denies Saudi allegations it gave Yemen rebels missiles
26/08/16 05:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Iran’s foreign minister is rejecting claims from Saudi Arabia that his country supplied the Shiite rebels in Yemen with missiles.

» Besieged Town of Daraya Agrees to Surrender to Syrian Government - New York Times
26/08/16 05:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. New York Times Besieged Town of Daraya Agrees to Surrender to Syrian Government New York Times A bombing killed 14 on Thursday in Aleppo, Syria. To the south, a four-year siege ended i...

» Kerry, Lavrov meet in Geneva to discuss Syria, Ukraine
26/08/16 05:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. The top diplomats of Russia and the United States are meeting in Geneva to discuss the Syria civil war, the Ukraine crisis and other issues.

» Iran Confirms It Will Join OPEC Talks To Support Oil Prices
26/08/16 05:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh confirmed that Iran will take part in an OPEC meeting next month in Algeria to discuss ways to support global oil prices.

» US, Russia renew push for elusive agreement on Syria
26/08/16 05:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top News at 5:26 a.m. EDT. GENEVA (AP) -- The United States and Russia on Friday renewed efforts to secure a military and humanitarian cooperation agreement for war-torn Syria as conditions on the groun...

» Kerry Calls for a Unity Government in Yemen to End Fighting
25/08/16 18:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for a unity government in Yemen to end its 17-month conflict, after meeting with Persian Gulf and U.N. officials here in an effort to restart peace talks. “We a...

» CIA Declassifies Presidential Briefings from the 1970s
25/08/16 18:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has released 2,500 previously classified daily foreign intelligence briefings given to Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford during the 1970s that ...

» Russia Says Chinese Hackers Are Getting More Aggressive - Bloomberg
25/08/16 18:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Bloomberg Russia Says Chinese Hackers Are Getting More Aggressive Bloomberg President Vladimir Putin is seeking to boost economic and military ties with China, which he calls Russia's...

» Portugal asks Baghdad to lift immunity for ambassador’s sons
25/08/16 18:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Portugal’s foreign ministry has asked Baghdad to lift the diplomatic immunity of the Iraqi ambassador’s teenage sons who are suspected of attempted homicide.

» U.S. Navy calls high-speed approach by Iranian ships dangerous harassment
25/08/16 18:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. A spokesman for the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet described the Iranian actions as "unsafe and unprofessional."

» Poland overtakes India as country of origin, UK migration statistics show - BBC News
25/08/16 18:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. BBC News Poland overtakes India as country of origin, UK migration statistics show BBC News Poland has overtaken India as the most common non-UK country of birth for people living in t...

» Kerry in Saudi Arabia for Talks on Yemen, Syria Conflicts - New York Times
25/08/16 17:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Al-Bawaba THE BUSINESS TIMES Kerry in Saudi Arabia for Talks on Yemen, Syria Conflicts New York Times RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Saudi King Salm...

» Iran Defends Encounter With U.S. Warship
25/08/16 17:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Tehran says its vessels accused of harassing a U.S. warship had only been carrying out their regular duties monitoring foreign ships near Iranian waters, and warned that ...

» Tensions Rise Between Iran and U.S. in Persian Gulf
25/08/16 17:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The United States said Iranian boats were harassing two Navy destroyers in international waters. Iran said the Americans were trespassing.

» Czech PM backs European army in talks with Germany's Merkel
25/08/16 17:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic supports deeper European defense cooperation that could eventually lead to the creation of a European army, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka ...

» Russia agrees to 48-hour Aleppo truce, U.N. waiting for other parties to commit: de Mistura
25/08/16 17:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. GENEVA (Reuters) - Russia has agreed to a 48-hour humanitarian ceasefire in the divided Syrian city of Aleppo to allow aid deliveries, but security guarantees are awaited from other pa...

» Inside the Ring: Office of No Threat Assessment
25/08/16 17:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. The Pentagon’s storied Office of Net Assessment (ONA) is coming under fire from critics inside the military and in Congress for failing to produce more of its signature product, nam...

» Al Qaeda Leader Zawahiri Urges Iraq Sunnis to Wage Guerrilla War as ISIS Loses More Land
25/08/16 17:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. By Maher Chmaytelli BAGHDAD (Reuters)– Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri on Thursday c al led on Iraq’s Sunnis to prepare for a “long guerrilla” war as Islamic State militants lost...

» 155 of Saddam’s and Obama’s MEK Terrorists Shipped To Albania
25/08/16 17:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ThereAreNoSunglasses. Bosnian El Mujahedeen Unit –The Republican Policy Committee, January 16, 1997 Report on Clinton and Bosnian Islamists [Obama repeating Clinton’s mistakes in Albania, then ...

» Hillary’s Secret Kremlin Connection Is Quickly Unraveling
25/08/16 17:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The XX Committee. Recent headlines have brought attention to the seedier side of Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state during President Obama’s first term. This scheme, which gives every appearanc...

» Russia backs 3-point aid plan for Syria's Aleppo
25/08/16 17:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. U.N. officials said Thursday they received word from Russia that it supports a 48-hour pause in fighting in and around Syria's largest city so that humanitarian aid can be delivered to i...

» Cyber extortion is no way for a hacker to get rich
25/08/16 17:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. The reality is that cybercriminals with dreams of striking it rich far outnumber vulnerable corporations.

» Are Saudi-led Coalition Forces Committing War Crimes in Yemen?
25/08/16 17:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Just Security. Alex Whiting This month, Saudi-led coalition forces recommenced airstrikes on Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, targeting the forces of Ansar Allah (known as the Houthis), after peace talks that ...

» To The NSA, The Word 'Security' Is Synonymous With 'Gaping, Unpatched Holes In US Developers' Software' - Techdirt
25/08/16 17:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from james b. comey - Google News. To The NSA, The Word 'Security' Is Synonymous With 'Gaping, Unpatched Holes In US Developers' Software' Techdirt ... of tech tools in a compromised server, it really doesn't d...

» IRS Chief Faces Likely Impeachment Vote in U.S. House Next Month - Bloomberg
25/08/16 17:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from house judiciary committee - Google News. Bloomberg IRS Chief Faces Likely Impeachment Vote in U.S. House Next Month Bloomberg Representative John Conyers of Michigan, the top Democrat on the House Judiciar...

» Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move from Above - Bloomberg
25/08/16 17:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi aclu report - Google News. Bloomberg Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move from Above Bloomberg 10 the U.S. Department of Justice released a 163-page report that detailed systemic abuses within ...

» Inside the controversial government centers where the FBI shares ... - The Week Magazine
25/08/16 17:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi aclu report - Google News. The Week Magazine Inside the controversial government centers where the FBI shares ... intel with police The Week Magazine Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commen...

» No charges for officer, FBI agent who killed man believed to be targeting police - Fox News
25/08/16 17:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. Fox News No charges for officer, FBI agent who killed man believed to be targeting police Fox News Prosecutors will not seek criminal charges against a Boston officer and an FBI agent wh...

» FBI Uncovers Another 15000 Clinton Emails - Here And Now
25/08/16 17:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. Washington Post FBI Uncovers Another 15000 Clinton Emails Here And Now Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a Digital Content Creators Town Hall at the Neuehouse H...

» Putin calls snap military drills near Crimea - Fox News
25/08/16 17:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Fox News Putin calls snap military drills near Crimea Fox News Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced snap military drills on land and in the Black and Caspian Sea, the...

» «Цензура вредит нам всем»: разговор с поэтом и художником Ярославом Могутиным - 25 августа, 2016
25/08/16 17:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Радиопрограммы и подкасты - Радио Свобода. None

» Sweden sees record numbers of asylum seekers withdraw applications and leave
25/08/16 17:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Independent - Europe. Sweden is no longer a utopia for asylum seekers, but the Swedish Government is offering migrants up to £3,500 each to go home

» How A Siberian Mom Took on Politics as Usual in Russia and Won - The Nation.
25/08/16 17:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Nation. How A Siberian Mom Took on Politics as Usual in Russia and Won The Nation. The 2016 Russian parliamentary elections will take place in September instead of the usual Decem...

» Biden Calls Nord Stream 2 Pipeline ‘Bad Deal For Europe’
25/08/16 17:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has said the United States believes the Nord Stream 2 natural-gas pipeline project involving Russia is a "fundamentally bad deal for Europe.”

» U.S. Jury Convicts Son Of Russian Lawmaker For Massive Online Theft Scheme
25/08/16 17:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A U.S. jury has convicted a Russian man on charges related to a massive computer hack into American businesses to steal credit-card information.

» Turkey, Sending More Tanks Into Syria, Steps Up Pressure on Kurds
25/08/16 17:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. The Turkish military seemed to be succeeding in its broader aims of clearing the border area of Islamic State militants and preventing Kurdish militias from taking more territory.

» Russia, Fuming at Paralympics Ban, Steps Up Campaign Against Whistle-Blower
25/08/16 17:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. The authorities are hounding the whistle-blower doctor in the doping scandal and spinning elaborate conspiracy theories — anything but admitting their own misdeeds.

» США-Китай-Россия: Неравносторонний треугольник
25/08/16 17:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from golosamerikius's YouTube Videos. From: golosamerikius Duration: 04:39 США, Китай и Россия формируют геополитический треугольник и соперничают за статус самых влиятельных держав. Но треугольник этот дал...

» Today's Headlines and Commentary
25/08/16 17:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Lawfare - Hard National Security Choices. Turkey has sent more tanks across the Syrian border , in what Reuters writes is not only a sign of Turkish determination to defeat the Islamic State but a signal t...

» Kerry in Saudi Arabia for talks on Yemen, Syria conflicts
25/08/16 11:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Saudi King Salman in the Red Sea city of Jiddah on Thursday ahead of wider talks focusing on the conflicts in Yemen, Syria and Libya with othe...

» Turkey: Kurdish rebels attack soldiers guarding party leader - Washington Post
25/08/16 11:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Channel NewsAsia Turkey: Kurdish rebels attack soldiers guarding party leader Washington Post ANKARA, Turkey — Kurdish rebels opened fire Thursday at security forces protecting a convo...

» Labour left humiliated after G4S turns down last ditch plea to provide conference security despite boycott
25/08/16 11:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from News. None

» The Latest: Kerry praises Colombia peace deal
25/08/16 11:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. The Latest on Colombia’s peace deal (all times local):

» China Moves to Ease Foreign Concerns on Cybersecurity Controls - Wall Street Journal
25/08/16 11:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Wall Street Journal China Moves to Ease Foreign Concerns on Cybersecurity Controls Wall Street Journal China is taking a more inclusive tack in imposing cybersecurity standards...

» СМИ узнали об увольнении генпрокурора Украины после ультиматума Байдена - РБК
25/08/16 11:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РБК СМИ узнали об увольнении генпрокурора Украины после ультиматума Байдена РБК Петр Порошенко уволил генпрокурора Украины после ультиматума вице-президента США Джо Байдена, узнал ...

» Порошенко поблагодарил воинов АТО за сохранение Независимости - ЛІГА.net
25/08/16 11:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. ЛІГА.net Порошенко поблагодарил воинов АТО за сохранение Независимости ЛІГА.net Президент Украины Петр Порошенко уже после парада, посвященного Дню Независимости, отдельно поздрави...

» DCNS, допустившая утечку данных, строит для Австралии другую субмарину - РИА Новости
25/08/16 11:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РИА Новости DCNS, допустившая утечку данных, строит для Австралии другую субмарину РИА Новости МОСКВА, 24 авг — РИА Новости. Премьер-министр Австралии Малькольм Тернбулл заявил, чт...

» Путин объявил внезапную проверку боеготовности вооруженных сил - РБК
25/08/16 11:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РБК Путин объявил внезапную проверку боеготовности вооруженных сил РБК Внезапная проверка боеготовности вооруженных сил России объявлена с 25 по 31 августа, заявил в четверг глава ...

» Американская незалежность: Через 25 лет после провозглашения независимости главным партнером Украины стали США - Нефть России
25/08/16 11:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. КП в Украине Американская незалежность: Через 25 лет после провозглашения независимости главным партнером Украины стали США Нефть России «Нефть России», 25.08.16, Москва, 12:48 Укр...

» Turkey may allow Russia to share Incirlik Air Base with US and NATO forces - Business Insider
25/08/16 11:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Business Insider Turkey may allow Russia to share Incirlik Air Base with US and NATO forces Business Insider Iran cut Russia's engagement at Hamedan short after they demonstrated a "k...

» How the DNC hack is boosting anti-US sentiment in Russia - Christian Science Monitor
25/08/16 11:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Christian Science Monitor How the DNC hack is boosting anti-US sentiment in Russia Christian Science Monitor And the recent Democratic National Committee email leaks that many experts...

» In Estonia, Merkel and Roivas talk Russia and internet - Deutsche Welle
25/08/16 11:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Deutsche Welle In Estonia, Merkel and Roivas talk Russia and internet Deutsche Welle Although Estonia joined NATO in 2004, it wasn't until Russia's most recent aggression that the dec...

» Ukraine marks 25 years of independence and hopes Russia pays attention - PRI
25/08/16 11:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. PRI Ukraine marks 25 years of independence and hopes Russia pays attention PRI Whitmore was in Ukraine and Russia in the summer and fall of 1993. At that time, he explains, both count...

» Protesting in Putin's Russia - BBC News
25/08/16 11:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. BBC News Protesting in Putin's Russia BBC News As Russia gears up for parliamentary elections, how is it dealing with dissent? Plenty has changed since Russia last held elections to p...

» Photographs reveal illegal mining and selling of woolly mammoth tusks in Russia - Daily Mail
25/08/16 11:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Daily Mail Photographs reveal illegal mining and selling of woolly mammoth tusks in Russia Daily Mail Russian poachers are reaching back in time to cash in on the world's insatiable d...

» RPT-Trump adviser's Russia credentials come under scrutiny - Reuters
25/08/16 11:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. RPT-Trump adviser's Russia credentials come under scrutiny Reuters Carter Page, who worked in Russia at U.S. investment bank Merrill Lynch, paints an impressive picture of his three-y...

» US Pursues Syria Cooperation With Russia Amid New Volatility - ABC News
25/08/16 11:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Sputnik International US Pursues Syria Cooperation With Russia Amid New Volatility ABC News The Obama administration is launching a fresh bid to enlist Russia as a partner in Syria de...

» US pursues Syria cooperation with Russia amid new volatility - U.S. News & World Report
25/08/16 11:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. U.S. News & World Report US pursues Syria cooperation with Russia amid new volatility U.S. News & World Report WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is launching a fresh ...

» Russia to Conduct Military Drills Amid Ukraine Tensions - Wall Street Journal
25/08/16 11:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Wall Street Journal Russia to Conduct Military Drills Amid Ukraine Tensions Wall Street Journal MOSCOW— Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered snap military drills Thursday to test ...

» Putin has Degraded Russian Political Discourse to Level of ‘Pathological Ravings,’ Piontkovky Says
25/08/16 11:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Staunton, August 25 – One of the most dangerous things Vladimir Putin has done is to degrade t...

» Ukrainian Independence Shows Bankruptcy of All Three Russian Imperial Projects, Ikhlov Says
25/08/16 11:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Staunton, August 25 – There “cannot be a more bitter date for contemporary Russia than August ...

» FSB Presses for Expanding Restricted Border Zone in Murmansk Despite Regional Objections
25/08/16 11:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Staunton, August 25 – Taking advantage of the earlier Syrian refugee crisis that led to a flow...

» Report: Syrian Government, IS Carried Out Chemical Attacks
25/08/16 10:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A confidential report has concluded the Syrian government and Islamic State militants deployed chemical weapons in the war-torn nation in 2014 and 2015, an apparent violation of a United ...

» Trump Introduces Brexit Leader at Campaign Rally
25/08/16 10:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump brought out a special guest at a rally Wednesday night in Jackson, Mississippi -- former British Independence Party chief Nigel Farage. Fara...

» Biden Assures Turkey of Staunch US Support
25/08/16 10:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told the government in Ankara that the United States strongly condemns last month's failed military coup in Turkey. Biden is visiting the longtime U.S. ally ...

» Kerry Talks Syria With Saudi Prince Ahead of Meeting with Russian Counterpart
25/08/16 10:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah Thursday morning to discuss, among other things, U.S. military operations in Syria. Kerry also met w...

» Submarine Data Leak Could be Setback for Indian Navy
25/08/16 10:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. A massive leak of secret data relating to the combat capabilities of submarines being built for the Indian navy by a French shipbuilder could delay their induction as India investigates t...

» Bill Clinton Defends Embattled Family Foundation
25/08/16 10:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Former president Bill Clinton says he's proud of people who have donated to the Clinton Foundation and the work the organization has done, as he waded into a dispute that Republicans are ...

» The Morning Vertical, August 24, 2016
25/08/16 10:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Interpreter. O N MY MIND The anniversaries have been coming fast and furious in recent weeks. There’s been the failed Soviet coup on August 19-21, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia on August ...

» Syrian rebels reclaim key border town from Islamic State
25/08/16 10:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. Militia backed by Turkish ground forces and US fighter jets take Jarablus, on border with Turkey Syrian rebels backed by Turkish ground forces and US fighter jets and drones have rec...

» Ukraine marks 25 years of independence a riven nation despite the flags
25/08/16 10:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. As the role of Ukrainians in the Soviet Union’s demise is celebrated, tensions still simmer in the east of country after two years of war Ukraine has marked 25 years of independence ...

» Germans ridicule food stockpiling plan
25/08/16 10:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Europe News. Claims of politically motivated scaremongering after a summer pockmarked by violence

» Hunt for Nazi Gold Train Digs Up Nothing but Dirt
25/08/16 10:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. Searchers in Walbrzych, Poland, sought a buried train full of gold, jewels and weapons, only to find a natural soil formation. But tourism in the town surged.

» Norway Will Build a Fence at Its Arctic Border With Russia
25/08/16 10:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. The government says a new fence, about 660 feet long and 11 feet high, is needed to tighten security where 5,500 migrants entered Norway last year.

» Search for Missing in Italy Quake Intensifies as Death Toll Rises
25/08/16 10:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. With Another 264 people had been hospitalized and dozens more injured, officials said, but with hundreds of people unaccounted for, the number of dead is expected to rise after Wednesday’s...

» В Вооруженных Силах РФ началась проверка боевой готовности
25/08/16 10:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from RSS. Соединения и воинские части Южного, Западного и Центрального военных округов, Северного флота, главного командования ВКС и командования ВДВ подняты по тревоге и выполняют мероприятия по приведению в п...

» Заместитель Министра обороны Анатолий Антонов проинформировал иностранный атташат о внезапной проверке боеготовности в Вооруженных Силах России
25/08/16 10:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from RSS. Замглавы военного ведомства особо подчеркнул, что мероприятия в её рамках осуществляются при строгом соблюдении всех требований Венского документа 2011 года о мерах укрепления доверия и безопасности.

» Внезапная проверка боевой готовности в войсках ЮВО проходит под контролем Генштаба ВС РФ
25/08/16 10:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from RSS. Штабы объединений и соединений Южного военного округа переведены на боевой режим работы, корабельные силы Черноморского флота и Каспийской флотилии – в готовности к выполнению задач по предназначению.

» Putin's ever-shrinking circle shows a return to Soviet politics
25/08/16 10:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Latest From the Wilson Center. Russia’s search for greater international influence and respect continued its downward spiral this summer. Its Olympic experience was spoiled by charges of doping. Accusation...

» The Education of the Kremlin Elites
25/08/16 10:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Latest From the Wilson Center. Few longtime insiders have left their coveted positions during Putin’s first 15 years in power. If anything, they were climbing the Kremlin ranks and Forbes rich-man tables. ...

» Амеба, пожирающая мозг
25/08/16 10:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from golosamerikius's YouTube Videos. From: golosamerikius Duration: 01:44 Купальщиков всегда подстерегают опасности. И, вероятно, одна из самых страшных угроз – амёбный менингоэнцефалит. В США возбудителя ...

» Российская оппозиция готова бороться за места в Госдуме
25/08/16 10:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from golosamerikius's YouTube Videos. From: golosamerikius Duration: 02:02 Лидеры российской оппозиции настроены решительно и намерены бороться за власть в стране Originally published at - http://www.golos-...

» Прогулка по русскому Сан-Франциско
25/08/16 10:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from golosamerikius's YouTube Videos. From: golosamerikius Duration: 03:11 Волны русской эмиграции принесли на эти берега не только обломки разбитых судеб, но и прилив созидательной энергии Originally publi...

» Italy earthquake rescuers in desperate search for survivors as toll hits 241 - CNN
25/08/16 10:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. CNN Italy earthquake rescuers in desperate search for survivors as toll hits 241 CNN Are you in Italy? Are you affected by the earthquake? If it's safe for you to do so, WhatsApp us on...

» Biden says he expects Obama to close Guantanamo before leaving office
25/08/16 10:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. Vice President Joseph R. Biden said Thursday he expects President Obama to close the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay before leaving office in January....

» FBI releases photos after shot fired inside Willoughby Hills bank - fox8.com
25/08/16 10:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. fox8.com FBI releases photos after shot fired inside Willoughby Hills bank fox8.com No one was injured and the suspects didn't get any cash. Anyone with information is urged to call the ...

» In Baltimore, the police and a private company are running surveillance flights like never before - Washington Post
25/08/16 10:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi aclu report - Google News. Baltimore Sun NOLA.com In Baltimore, the police and a private company are running surveillance flights like never before Washington Post “As technology permits it, we're seei...

» FBI searching for alleged serial convenience store robber in Baltimore area - Fox Baltimore
25/08/16 10:37 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. Fox Baltimore FBI searching for alleged serial convenience store robber in Baltimore area Fox Baltimore BALTIMORE (WBFF) – A day after investigators released surveillance photos of a man...

» FBI took control of, continued to operate child pornography website - WSOC Charlotte
25/08/16 10:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. WSOC Charlotte FBI took control of, continued to operate child pornography website WSOC Charlotte Adolf claims the FBI improved the site's efficiency from an average of 11,000 weekly vis...

» Miss. Islamic State recruit thanks FBI for saving his life - USA TODAY
25/08/16 10:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. USA TODAY Miss. Islamic State recruit thanks FBI for saving his life USA TODAY OXFORD, Miss. — A Mississippi man who once tried to join the Islamic State group credited arresting FBI age...

» DA: FBI agent, Boston officer justified in shooting terror suspect Usaamah Rahim - Boston.com
25/08/16 10:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. MassLive.com DA: FBI agent, Boston officer justified in shooting terror suspect Usaamah Rahim Boston.com More than a year after Usaamah Rahim was shot to death by an FBI agent and a Bost...

» A Conflicted Donald Trump Tries to Temper His Tone - New York Times
25/08/16 10:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from james b. comey - Google News. New York Times A Conflicted Donald Trump Tries to Temper His Tone New York Times In an interview last month, shortly after the F.B.I. director, James B . Comey , issued scathi...

» Mississippi Man Sentenced, Thanks FBI for Stopping Him From Joining ISIS - NBCNews.com
25/08/16 10:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. NBCNews.com Mississippi Man Sentenced, Thanks FBI for Stopping Him From Joining ISIS NBCNews.com Mississippi Man Sentenced, Thanks FBI for Stopping Him From Joining ISIS. by Alex Johnson...

» No charges in police shooting of Boston terror suspect - WPTZ
25/08/16 10:34 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi aclu report - Google News. No charges in police shooting of Boston terror suspect WPTZ Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley on Wednesday released a report spelling out the investigation into ...

» FBI’s New DNA Process Produces More Matches in Suspect Database
25/08/16 10:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . WASHINGTON—Federal Bureau of Investigation scientists have adopted a new method of analyzing DNA samples, generating thousands of fresh potential leads in cold cases from the world’s largest genet...

» FBI's New DNA Process Produces More Matches in Suspect Database - Wall Street Journal
25/08/16 10:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. Wall Street Journal FBI's New DNA Process Produces More Matches in Suspect Database Wall Street Journal The change doesn't affect how the FBI collects or tests samples, but how it compar...

» FBI in Louisville getting new special agent in charge - Lexington Herald Leader
25/08/16 10:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from james b. comey - Google News. FBI in Louisville getting new special agent in charge Lexington Herald Leader FBI Director James B . Comey announced this week that Amy Hess will be the new special agent in c...

» Volatile mix in Syria war puts new strain on US strategy
25/08/16 10:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military picture in Syria is getting more chaotic and complicated by the day, putting new strains on the Obama administration's strateg...

» Pentagon's Office of Threat assement under fire from military, Congress
25/08/16 10:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. The Pentagon's storied Office of Net Assessment (ONA) is coming under fire from critics inside the military and in Congress for failing to produce more of its sig...

» Iranian ships intercept U.S. destroyer: report
25/08/16 10:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. Four Iranian patrol boats made an unsafe "high-speed intercept" against a U.S. destroyer near the Strait of Hormuz, CNN r eported Wednesday. Citing a "U.S. Navy o...

» U.N. confirms Syria, Islamic State used chemical weapons
25/08/16 10:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces carried out at least two chemical attacks in Syria in the past two years and the Islamic State also used mustard gas as ...

» Russia calls snap military drills
25/08/16 10:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's defense ministry says President Vladimir Putin has announced snap military drills on land and in the Black and Caspian Seas. The ministry s...

» D.C. Restaurants Lose Eight Jobs a Day as Wage Hikes Take Effect
25/08/16 10:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. Restaurants in the nation’s capital experienced their worst hiring period in 15 years, fueling speculation that wage hikes are reducing employment opportunities. Employment in the f...

» NATO Offers ‘Gender Perspective’ Course
25/08/16 10:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization offers “gender perspective” training for member nations that warns troops of “problematic” approaches to gender. NATO tweeted from its NATO Wo...

» Pentagon Records Account for Less Than Half of U.S. Arms Transfers to Iraq, Afghanistan
25/08/16 10:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. The Pentagon has records for fewer than half of the firearms the United States dispensed to partner forces in Afghanistan and Iraq since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the N...

» Clinton: Fine for Foundation to Accept Foreign Donations While I Was Secretary of State But Not If I’m President
25/08/16 10:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. Hillary Clinton told Anderson Cooper Wednesday night that it was acceptable for the Clinton Foundation to take foreign donations while she was Secretary of State but it wouldn’...

» Russia to Field HypersonicMissiles by 2020
25/08/16 10:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. Russia is working to deploy a revolutionary hypersonic maneuvering strike missile by 2020, according to a Russian defense industry leader. Boris Obnosov, director of the state-run T...

» CBO: Federal Debt to Hit $28.2 Trillion Over Next Decade
25/08/16 10:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. Outstanding federal debt is projected to hit $28.2 trillion over the next decade, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office. At the end of this year, outstanding fe...

» Rule By the Elite, the “Natural Order,” Or A Pre-Revolutionary State?
25/08/16 10:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from ThereAreNoSunglasses. [The following article would not normally merit posting on this site, considering its Pro-Democrat slant…Nonetheless, despite this shortcoming (which I attribute to the author b...

» SPECIAL OPERATIONS: Italy Has A Change Of Mind
25/08/16 10:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from StrategyPage.com. None

» Did domestic snooping by Canadian spy agency increase 26-fold in a year?
25/08/16 10:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from intelNews.org. The volume of domestic communications that were intercepted by Canada’s spy agency increased 26 times between 2014 and 2015, according to a recently released report by a government watchdog....

» Soldier who killed 5 Dallas officers showed PTSD symptoms
25/08/16 10:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from In Homeland Security. The Army reservist who killed five Dallas police officers last month showed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after returning home from Afghanistan in 2014.

» Turkey makes first major foray into Syria with assault on IS
25/08/16 10:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from In Homeland Security. Turkey on Wednesday launched its first major ground assault into Syria since the country's civil war began, sending in tanks and special forces backed by U.S. airstrikes.

» Welcome to the Trump-Clinton conspiracy election
25/08/16 10:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from In Homeland Security. The 2016 campaign features one candidate who warned against the "vast right-wing conspiracy" and another who was a leader of the so-called "birther" movement.

» House Oversight Chairman Has Questions for FBI Regarding Clinton Email Storage - PJ Media
25/08/16 10:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from house judiciary committee - Google News. PJ Media House Oversight Chairman Has Questions for FBI Regarding Clinton Email Storage PJ Media This comes a week after Chairman Chaffetz and House Judiciary Commi...

» Trump Vs. The Elites - Daily Caller
25/08/16 10:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from house judiciary committee - Google News. Trump Vs. The Elites Daily Caller She was a young attorney working on the House Judiciary Committee to prosecute the president. Jerry Zeifman, a counsel and Chief o...

» Turkey-Backed Free Syrian Army Takes Control of Jarablus
25/08/16 10:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from GlobalSecurity.org. The Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army has taken control of the northern Syrian Jarablus that had been controlled by Daesh, Anadolu news agency reported.

» FBI Files Say China Firm Pushed U.S. Experts for Nuclear Secrets - Bloomberg
25/08/16 10:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Bloomberg FBI Files Say China Firm Pushed U.S. Experts for Nuclear Secrets Bloomberg The FBI documents surfaced shortly after the same company became a focus of concerns across...

» CIA releases thousands of previously classified briefings to Presidents Nixon and Ford - Los Angeles Times
25/08/16 10:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from cia - Google News. Los Angeles Times CIA releases thousands of previously classified briefings to Presidents Nixon and Ford Los Angeles Times The CIA pulled the veil back Wednesday on long-classified forei...

» The National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The Legal Window of the CIA - Center for Research on Globalization
25/08/16 10:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from cia - Google News. Center for Research on Globalization The National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The Legal Window of the CIA Center for Research on Globalization Ronald Reagan's speech in London took pl...

» France, the burkini and a 'battle of cultures'
25/08/16 09:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Manuel Valls defended a ban on burkinis in more than a dozen coastal towns on Thursday, saying France was locked in a "battle of cultures" and t...

» Police Collect Evidence Following Deadly Attack On American University In Kabul
25/08/16 09:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Afghan police hunted for evidence a day after an attack on American University of Afghanistan in Kabul least at least 12 people dead. (RFE/RL's Afghan Service)

» Openly Gay Congressional Candidate Makes a Case for Himself—and Trump - NBCNews.com
25/08/16 09:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. NBCNews.com Openly Gay Congressional Candidate Makes a Case for Himself—and Trump NBCNews.com Clay Cope is the Republican candidate for Connecticut's 5th Congressional District. ...

» Turkey sends tanks into Syria against ISIS; rebels reportedly capture town - CNN
25/08/16 09:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. CNN Turkey sends tanks into Syria against ISIS; rebels reportedly capture town CNN Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) Turkish tanks entered northern Syria on Wednesday to help Syrian rebels ...

» Trump and Clinton Have No Idea How to Deal With Putin - Yahoo News
25/08/16 09:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Yahoo News Trump and Clinton Have No Idea How to Deal With Putin Yahoo News Murky links to Moscow and speculation of Kremlin interference have dominated the U.S. election. So how come ...

» Syria Used Chlorine in Bombs Against Civilians, Report Says - New York Times
25/08/16 09:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Toronto Star Syria Used Chlorine in Bombs Against Civilians, Report Says New York Times Syrian military helicopters dropped bombs containing chlorine on civilians in at least two attac...

» Jordan's Election a Test for Muslim Brotherhood's Change
25/08/16 09:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. The political wing of Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood has adopted more moderate posture as it seeks to draw lessons from the Brotherhood’s disaster in Egypt, Yaroslav Trofimov writes.

» Russia to Conduct Military Drills Amid Ukraine Tensions
25/08/16 09:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered snap military drills Thursday to test the combat-readiness of troops on the country’s western flank.

» Turkey's Syria offensive is as much about the Kurds as ISIS
25/08/16 09:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. The complex battlefield in Syria is getting even more complicated.

» France: Syria and Islamic State blamed for chemical attacks
25/08/16 09:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. France’s deputy U.N. ambassador says an international team is blaming the Syrian government and Islamic State militants for chemical weapons attacks in the conflict-wracked nation during 2014 and 2015.

» U.S.-backed Kurdish forces answer Turkish demand to pullback from Euphrates
25/08/16 09:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Turkey sends more tanks into Syria after taking Islamic State-controlled border town

» The Latest: Turkey secures area around captured Syrian town
25/08/16 09:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. The Latest developments in the Syrian civil war, following Turkish ground forces’ incursion (all times local):

» Iran: Forces will warn any vessel after US warship incident
25/08/16 09:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Iran’s defense minister says his country’s naval forces will warn or confront any foreign ship entering its territorial waters after an incident this week involving a U.S. warship.

» Philippine leader orders extremists crushed after beheading
25/08/16 09:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Abu Sayyaf extremists have beheaded a kidnapped Filipino villager after a ransom deadline lapsed in their first such brutal act under President Rodrigo Duterte, who pressed an order for troops to cr...

» Egypt to free lawyer after 3 months in solitary confinement
25/08/16 09:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. An Egyptian court has ordered the release of a prominent rights lawyer held in solitary confinement for the past three months after he challenged in court a decision by the country’s president to ha...

» Aerial Footage Captures Devastation From Central Italy Earthquake
25/08/16 09:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World – TIME. Aerial footage of central Italy reveals the destruction that Wednesday’s 6.2 magnitude earthquake has wreaked. The earthquake, which affected small towns such as Amatrice, Accumoli, Pos...

» Turkey Says Syrian Rebels Have Taken Back Border Town From ISIS
25/08/16 09:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World – TIME. (ANKARA, Turkey) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Syrian opposition forces aided by Ankara have taken back the border town of Jarablus from ISIS. During a press statement with vi...

» Syrian Government and ISIS Are Both Responsible for Chemical Attacks, U.N. Says
25/08/16 09:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World – TIME. (UNITED NATIONS) — An international team has concluded that the Syrian government and Islamic State militants carried out chemical attacks in the conflict-wracked nation during 2014 and 2015,...

» Iranian Vessels Intercept U.S. Warship, Official Says
25/08/16 09:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World – TIME. Four Iranian vessels “harassed” a U.S. warship by coming within 300 yd. yards of it on Tuesday, according to a U.S. defense official who told Reuters that the maneuver was “unsafe and unprofe...

» Drone footage shows extent of earthquake damage to Amatrice – aerial video
25/08/16 09:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World news + Video | The Guardian. Aerial footage filmed with a drone shows the level of damage caused by an earthquake in the Italian town of Amatrice. Rescue workers can be seen standing among the rubble...

» Leader of Sunni militant organization in Iran killed: Intelligence Minister
25/08/16 09:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BEIRUT (Reuters) - The leader of a Sunni militant group in southeast Iran responsible for attacks against security forces and civilian targets has been killed, Iran's intelligence mini...

» Kyrgyzstan Seeks Release Of Detained Citizens As Border Tensions Rise With Uzbekistan
25/08/16 09:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Kyrgyz authorities say negotiations are under way with officials in neighboring Uzbekistan to secure the release of four Kyrgyz nationals detained by Uzbek police in a di...

» Dueling Indictments As Russia, Ukraine Target Each Other's Military Leaders
25/08/16 09:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Russia and Ukraine traded salvos this week with dueling criminal investigations against each other's top military brass, a new front in the ongoing conflict between the t...

» U.S. Says Iranian Boats Harrassed U.S. Warship Near Strait Of Hormuz
25/08/16 09:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Four Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vessels "harassed" a U.S. warship near the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. defense officials said on August 24.

» UN/OPCW Inquiry Blames Syria Government, Islamic State For Chemical Attacks
25/08/16 09:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A joint investigation by the United Nations and the global chemical weapons watchdog has established that President Bashar al-Assad's regime and the Islamic State (IS) gr...

» U.S., Allies Vow To Hold Syria Accountable For Chemical Attacks
25/08/16 09:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The White House and its NATO allies vowed to hold Syria and the Islamic State accountable for chemical weapons attacks documented by a United Nations investigation.

» Recessions in Russia, Emerging Markets Push Up Youth Unemployment
25/08/16 09:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Recessions in Russia, Brazil, Kazakhstan, and other emerging markets hit by low commodity prices is helping to push the world's youth unemployment rate up, the Internatio...

» The Daily Vertical: The Road From Abkhazia To Donbas (Transcript)
25/08/16 09:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. When Russia formally recognized the independence of Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions eight years ago this week, it was a harbinger.

» Moscow Court Seizes Russian Doping Whistle-Blower's Assets
25/08/16 09:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A court in Moscow has the seized assets of the former director of Russia's antidoping laboratory, after he publicly detailed a vast state-sponsored system to help Russian...

» Uzbekistan Claims Disputed Territory Along Border With Kyrgyzstan
25/08/16 09:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Uzbekistan has claimed a disputed part of the border with Kyrgyzstan as "Uzbek territory," adding that four Kyrgyz citizens detained there "were illegally present in Uzbe...

» Kerry tackles Yemen, Syrian conflicts in Saudi Arabia talks
25/08/16 08:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held talks with Saudi Arabia's powerful deputy crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, into the early hours of Thursday m...

» German military mulls withdrawing jets from Turkey air base: report
25/08/16 08:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BERLIN (Reuters) - The German military is preparing for a possible withdrawal of six Tornado reconnaissance jets from Turkey's Incirlik Air Base given Ankara's continued refusal to all...

» More Turkish tanks enter Syria in push against Islamic State, Kurdish militia
25/08/16 08:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. KARKAMIS, Turkey (Reuters) - At least nine more Turkish tanks entered northern Syria on Thursday as part of an operation aimed at driving Islamic State out of the area around Jarablus ...

» Saudi coalition air strikes kill most civilians in Yemen, Houthis also violate law: U.N.
25/08/16 08:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. GENEVA (Reuters) - Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen are responsible for the largest part of the 3,799 civilians killed so far and it has committed other violations that ...

» Asylum claims in Britain in first half of 2016 highest in more than a decade
25/08/16 08:47 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 36,000 asylum seeker claims were made in Britain in the first half of 2016, according to government figures published on Thursday, the h...

» Before debates, Clinton aims to keep Trump expectations high
25/08/16 08:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top News at 8:14 a.m. EDT. WASHINGTON (AP) -- By virtue of her long political resume, Hillary Clinton will enter her highly anticipated fall debates with Donald Trump facing the same kind of heightened ...

» Biden calls on Turkey to be patient in Gulen case
25/08/16 08:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top News at 8:14 a.m. EDT. ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden called on Turkish authorities to be patient with the U.S. legal system as Turkey seeks the return of a cleric accused of m...

» The Early Edition: August 25, 2016
25/08/16 08:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Just Security. Zoë Chapman Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. IRAQ and SYRIA Another nine or ...

» The Sources of Russian Conduct
25/08/16 04:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The National Interest. In February 1946, George Kennan sent back from Moscow the “ Long Telegram ,” an analysis of the sources of Soviet foreign policy, which came to serve as the intellectual ...

» Look up: Police surveillance planes are probably flying over Baltimore right now - Technical.ly
24/08/16 13:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi aclu report - Google News. Technical.ly Look up: Police surveillance planes are probably flying over Baltimore right now Technical.ly The FBI surveillance planes that circled Baltimore during protests ...

» Emails Show Top Clinton Aide Researched Alzheimer’s Drug
24/08/16 13:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. Recently released emails show that Jake Sullivan, a top aide to Hillary Clinton, researched a drug that is used to treat Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, among other disorders, while Cl...

» Joe Biden Will Attempt to Smooth Relations With Turkey
24/08/16 13:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Turkey, becoming the first senior White House official to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan since last month’s failed coup.

» Germany Reworks Disaster-Response Plan to Counter Modern Terror Threat
24/08/16 13:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. The German government unveiled a fresh disaster-response plan, giving the quaint Cold-War first-aid tool known as the “civil defense concept” an overdue face-lift for an era of digital...

» Turkey Prepares for Casualties in Jarabulus Fight
24/08/16 13:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. As Syrian rebels and Turkish armed forces crossed into Syria to join the fight against Islamic State, Turkish officials have been busy preparing their rear lines for medical and other ...

» U.S., Bulgaria to Conduct Joint Air Patrols in NATO-led Mission
24/08/16 13:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. U.S. fighter planes will conduct patrols with the Bulgarian air force next month, U.S. and Bulgarian officials said, operations aimed at opening a new front in the NATO alliance’s effo...

» Ukraine Celebrates Independence Amid Tensions With Moscow
24/08/16 13:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. The Ukrainian government marked a quarter-century of independence Wednesday with a display of military might, as tensions flared in the country’s war-torn east.

» Turkey's Erdogan, Extending a Post-Coup Crackdown, Is Purging Turkey's Universities
24/08/16 13:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. A sweep of academics on the outs with the president, including associates of imam Fethullah Gulen, is part of a long-running split between the nation’s urban elite and conservative-Mus...

» AP EXPLAINS: How Colombia conflict developed over decades
24/08/16 13:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. As Colombia’s government and leftist rebels in Havana put the final touches on a historic peace deal, The Associated Press explains how the conflict began and developed over the decades, eventually ...

» Turkish state media says Syrian opposition forces have reached ‘entrance’ to IS-held town of Jarablus
24/08/16 13:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. Turkish state media says Syrian opposition forces have reached ‘entrance’ to IS-held town of Jarablus.

» Syrian rebels, backed by Turkey and U.S., capture ISIS stronghold of Jarabulus
24/08/16 13:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. The takeover deprives the Islamic State of a crucial foothold on the Turkish border, used for funneling foreign fighters and supplies, and is expected to help accelerate the militants’ demise elsewh...

» Biden visits Turkey on mission to repair strained relations
24/08/16 13:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from World. The vice president arrived hours after U.S.-backed Turkish forces crossed the Syrian border in support of an offensive against an Islamic State stronghold.

» Turkish Military Begins Major Offensive Into Syria in Fight Against ISIS
24/08/16 12:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The incursion, backed by U.S. air support, drastically escalates Turkey’s role in the Syrian conflict in an effort meant to clear ISIS militants from the border.

» US has 'strong record of support' for Turkey
24/08/16 12:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. US Ambassador to Turkey John Bass tells the BBC's Mark Lowen that Turkey has a "strong and robust" relationship with the US and the European Union.

» North Korean submarine missile launch shows improved ability
24/08/16 12:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top News at 12:27 p.m. EDT. SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A ballistic missile fired from a North Korean submarine on Wednesday flew about 500 kilometers (310 miles), the longest distance achieved by the No...

» First lawsuit filed over tainted water at Pennsylvania bases
24/08/16 12:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A family has filed the first lawsuit against the Navy alleging their drinking water has been tainted by firefighting foams once used at two...

» American University of Afghanistan in Kabul under siege: 'We are stuck inside'
24/08/16 12:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. DEVELOPING: Multiple witnesses in Kabul said Wednesday the American University of Afghanistan is under attack. Gunshots and a blast rang out Wednesday as the sieg...

» The Latest: General says no one swayed him in Bergdahl case
24/08/16 12:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) - The Latest on a pretrial hearing in the legal case against Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (all times local): 11:35 a.m. The Army general overseei...

» How Many Guns Did the U.S. Lose Track of in Iraq and Afghanistan? Hundreds of Thousands.
24/08/16 12:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from United States Defense and Military Forces. A new study shows how the American military failed at the soldier’s most basic responsibility: keeping track of firearms.

» Retired Marine Corps general warns against US isolationism
24/08/16 12:54 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. A retired Marine Corps general wants America's next president to take a lesson from the "greatest generation" and stay engaged in the world.

» The Early Edition: August 24, 2016
24/08/16 12:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Just Security. Zoë Chapman zoeadmin Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. IRAQ and SYRIA Turkey l...

» Sudden Justice
24/08/16 12:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Intelligence Analysis and Reporting. Title: Sudden Justice Author: Chris Woods Woods, Chris (2015). Sudden Justice : America’s Secret Drone Wars, New York, NY: Ox...

» Turkey says operation launched to free IS-held Syrian town
24/08/16 12:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from In Homeland Security. Turkey's prime minister's office says the Turkish military and the U.S.-backed coalition forces have launched an operation to clear a Syrian border town from Islamic State militants.

» Private lives are exposed as WikiLeaks spills its secrets
24/08/16 12:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from In Homeland Security. It's not just big names - WikiLeaks' mass-disclosures have also hit hundreds of average people - including sick children, rape victims and mental patients.

» Top general scheduled to testify at Bergdahl hearing
24/08/16 12:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from In Homeland Security. A top Army general is scheduled to testify Wednesday about why he destroyed letters he received from supporters and critics of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

» Trump, Clinton and Obama: The Media’s Truthfulness is Lacking
24/08/16 12:51 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from In Homeland Security. The media has failed miserably in keeping the public properly informed about the candidates seeking our nation’s highest office - and its current occupant.

» Jordan's Abdullah arrives in Cairo, confers with Egypt's El-Sisi
24/08/16 12:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DEBKAFile. August 24, 2016, 4:37 PM (IDT) Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi met with Jordanian King Abdullah at the presidential palace in Cairo on Wednesday. They discussed bilateral ties as well as ...

» Biden in Ankara: Kurds must withdraw immediately to east bank of Euphrates
24/08/16 12:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DEBKAFile. August 24, 2016, 6:04 PM (IDT) US Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday during a joint press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim in Ankara that Syrian Kurdish forces will lo...

» Will China Help Clinch A Presidential Victory For Clinton? - Forbes
24/08/16 12:49 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Forbes Will China Help Clinch A Presidential Victory For Clinton? Forbes The U.S. economy has been rocky over the past few months, to say the least. We saw minuscule GDP growth...

» Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea -- The CIA Mission to Raise a Soviet Sub - Huffington Post
24/08/16 12:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from cia - Google News. Huffington Post Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea -- The CIA Mission to Raise a Soviet Sub Huffington Post The State Department was represented by Ronald Spiers and Edward L. Peck, respect...

» Exclusive film clip: Watch 'Snowden' demolish his CIA aptitude test - CNET
24/08/16 12:48 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from cia - Google News. Exclusive film clip: Watch 'Snowden' demolish his CIA aptitude test CNET Americans remain divided on their opinions of Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee and NSA contractor who copi...

» Националиста Поткина приговорили к 7,5 года колонии - РБК
24/08/16 12:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РБК Националиста Поткина приговорили к 7,5 года колонии РБК Мещанский суд Москвы приговорил одного из лидеров запрещенного в России националистического объединения «Русские» Алекса...

» "Враг не поставил Украину на колени"
24/08/16 12:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from SvobodaRadio's YouTube Videos. From: SvobodaRadio Duration: 00:00 Игорь Клямкин и Виталий Портников: что сделано за 25 существования независимой Украины. - "Врагу не удалось реализовать ни одной страте...

» Детское порно и дело Буковского. Анонс
24/08/16 12:46 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from SvobodaRadio's YouTube Videos. From: SvobodaRadio Duration: 01:01 Детское порно – идеальный инструмент компрометации. Кому понадобилось опорочить Владимира Буковского? В программе Александра Подрабинек...

» Belarus on Its Way to Becoming the Next Ukraine, Russian Nationalist Commentator Says
24/08/16 12:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Staunton, August 24 – Many Russian nationalists have comforted themselves with the notion that...

» Russian Liberals and the West Fought the Wrong Enemy in the 1990s, Krasheninnikov Says
24/08/16 12:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Staunton, August 24 – Throughout the 1990s, Russian liberals and their Western backers feared ...

» Raped and Tortured by IS, Yazidi Women Recover in Germany
24/08/16 12:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The Yazidi girl had been in the safety of a refugee camp in Iraq for two weeks when she imagined she heard the voices of Islamic State fighters outside her tent. Petrified by the thoug...

» To Deter Refugees, Norway Readies Fence on ex-Cold War Border
24/08/16 12:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Norway is putting up a steel fence at a remote Arctic border post with Russia after an influx of migrants last year, sparking an outcry from refugees' rights groups and fears that cross- ...

» VP Biden on Gulen
24/08/16 12:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said the United States had no prior knowledge of the Turkish coup and would never support the treasonous behavior of the military.

» Happy 25th Web Anniversary
24/08/16 12:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Happy 25th Web Anniversary

» Ukraine Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Independence
24/08/16 12:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Interpreter. Ukraine Day 919: LIVE UPDATES BELOW. Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here . READ OUR SPECIAL REPORT: An Invasion By Any Other Name: The Kremlin’s Dirty...

» Russia and Iran's Marriage of Convenience Is No Strategic Alliance - Newsweek
24/08/16 12:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Newsweek Russia and Iran's Marriage of Convenience Is No Strategic Alliance Newsweek The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, made it very clear where his country stood in Februar...

» Authorities Investigate Russian Cyberattack on The New York Times - ABC News
24/08/16 12:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. CNN Authorities Investigate Russian Cyberattack on The New York Times ABC News U.S. officials say they are investigating a series of cyberattacks against The New York Times' Moscow bu...

» Russia is teetering on the brink of 'all out war' with Ukraine - The Independent
24/08/16 12:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Independent Russia is teetering on the brink of 'all out war' with Ukraine The Independent Whether tensions escalate or subside will depend most upon the political calculus of Rus...

» 'EU is a DICTATORSHIP' Furious campaigners want to move German state to PUTIN'S RUSSIA - Express.co.uk
24/08/16 12:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Express.co.uk 'EU is a DICTATORSHIP' Furious campaigners want to move German state to PUTIN'S RUSSIA Express.co.uk He had already started an appeal in March with the title "German cit...

» Punitive Medicine? Crimean Tatars Shaken By Leader's Confinement To Mental Asylum
24/08/16 12:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Russia's confinement of a Tatar activist to a psychiatric clinic in Crimea is raising fears that Moscow is reviving a Soviet-era practice to intimidate opponents of the p...

» Moscow Court Finds Russian Nationalist Guilty Of Money Laundering
24/08/16 12:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A Moscow court has found Aleksandr Potkin, the leader of the banned "Russians" nationalist movement, guilty of laundering money stolen from a bank in Kazakhstan.

» Behind The Scenes In Ukraine, Ties To Putin Help Power Broker Pull Strings
24/08/16 12:40 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A tycoon and power broker with close ties to Vladimir Putin, Viktor Medvedchuk has influenced policy for two tumultuous decades in Ukraine. As a peace deal he helped push...

» Biden Pledges 'Unwavering Support' For Turkey's Democracy
24/08/16 12:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says Washington puts "paramount importance" on its relations with Turkey and is offering "unwavering support" for democracy in the country a...

» Saudi Police Foil Attack By Pakistani Against Shi’ite Mosque
24/08/16 12:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Saudi Arabia says it has thwarted a terrorist attack against worshipers at a Shi’ite mosque in the eastern governorate of Qatif.

» Ukraine Makes Show Of Force To Mark 25 Years Of Independence
24/08/16 12:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Amid rising tensions with Russia, Ukraine marked 25 years of independence with a massive military parade in Kyiv. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)

» The Real Russian Mole Inside NSA |
24/08/16 08:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Observer. A helicopter view of the National Security Agency January 28, 2016 in Fort Meade, Maryland. (Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) Moles—that is, long-term penetration agents—ar...

» СКР возбудил дела против глав Минобороны и Генштаба Украины :: Политика :: РБК
24/08/16 08:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from РБК - Все материалы. СКР возбудил дела против глав ...

» Turkey in cross-border operation to free IS-held Syrian town
24/08/16 08:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - After a pre-dawn barrage of heavy artillery and airstrikes, Turkey sent tanks and special forces into Syria on Wednesday to help clear a bor...

» Dunford Details Implications of Today's Threats on Tomorrow's Strategy
24/08/16 08:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from GlobalSecurity.org. National security leaders must be able to confront today's threats, and they must develop and maintain the personnel, strategies and equipment needed for an ever more uncertain world, t...

» Russian Defense Ministry to Discuss Missile Attack Warning System Development
24/08/16 08:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from GlobalSecurity.org. The Russian Ministry of Defense collegium will discuss on Tuesday the progress on the missile attack warning system.

» INFORMATION WARFARE: Scary Monsters You Cannot Detect
24/08/16 08:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from StrategyPage.com. None

» SPECIAL OPERATIONS: Iran Expands The Franchise
24/08/16 08:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from StrategyPage.com. None

» MEXICO: Cartels Expanding To Asia
24/08/16 08:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from StrategyPage.com. None

» Turkish military, US-led coalition launch operation to sweep Islamic Sta... - Reuters
24/08/16 08:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Reuters Turkish military , US-led coalition launch operation to sweep Islamic Sta... Reuters The Turkish army began firing artillery rounds into the Syrian border town of Jarab...

» Turkish request for Gulen's extradition not linked to coup, State Dept says
24/08/16 08:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DEBKAFile. August 24, 2016, 10:37 AM (IDT) US State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Tuesday during the department's daily briefing that Ankara has filed a request for the extradition of Turkish o...

» New York Times: Russian Intelligence Hackers Targeted Us - Hacked
24/08/16 08:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from James R. Clapper Jr. - Google News. New York Times: Russian Intelligence Hackers Targeted Us Hacked Meanwhile, cyberespionage is a practice that most governments engage in, according to comments from US Na...

» Netanyahu, Putin speak by phone on 'urgent developments' in Middle East
24/08/16 08:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DEBKAFile. August 24, 2016, 12:56 PM (IDT) Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday night. A Kremlin spokesman said the two leaders discusse...

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