Small Texas town foiled Russian hacker group that attacked its water systems

fortune.com A hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow in January has been linked to a shadowy Russian hacktivist group, the latest case of a U.S. public utility…

Russia denounces France's seizure of villa linked to Putin's ex-wife

newsweek.com The Kremlin on Thursday denounced French authorities for seizing a villa reportedly owned by the new husband of Russian President Vladimir Putin's ex-wife. The property is…

Satellite photo shows Russian Black Sea Fleet upgrades

newsweek.com Russia has upgraded its main eastern Black Sea Fleet port following Ukrainian attacks on Crimea, where Moscow had largely based its naval assets in the region, new satellite…

Ukraine is digging in as the Kremlin steps up its offensive

economist.com The sunken faces that peer from behind battered fences are aged, whether or not the bodies that carry them are old. Russia, eight kilometres away, isn’t hiding. In the past…

Russian TV decries Crimea attack: "Target practice" for Kerch bridge strike

newsweek.com A guest on Russian state TV has decried Ukraine's attack on a large Russian airfield in annexed Crimea that is reported to have killed up to 30 Russian personnel and wounded…

US water supply targeted by Russian hackers: report

newsweek.com A hacking group behind cyberattacks on water systems in the United States, Poland and France is connected to the Russian military, a cybersecurity firm has found, signaling…

Desperation Behind European Politicians' Latest Russiagate Hoax

zerohedge.com Desperation Behind European Politicians' Latest Russiagate Hoax Authored by Peter Sourek, Cecile Jilkova, and Michael Shellenberg via Public Substack, The success of…

The Polish President Revealed That Foreign Companies Own Most Of Ukraine's Industrial Agriculture

zerohedge.com The Polish President Revealed That Foreign Companies Own Most Of Ukraine's Industrial Agriculture Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The Oakland Institute published a…

Superyacht Sales Fall Due to Lack of Russian Oligarch Customers

thedailyupside.com Think of the yachting industry as Rose in Titanic and Russian oligarchs as Jack — a tragic romance cut short. Pulling together stats from the SuperYacht Times’ State of…

Georgia moves forward with ‘Russian law’ targeting media

fastcompany.com Georgia’s parliament has voted in the first reading to approve a proposed law that would require media and non-commercial organizations to register as being under foreign…

Russia's Sandworm 'cyberattacked US, EU water utilities'

theregister.com The Russian military's notorious Sandworm crew was likely behind cyberattacks on US and European water plants that, in at least one case, caused a tank to overflow. In a…

US government tried to spy on people, Telegram founder claims

newsweek.com The United States government wanted a so-called "backdoor" in to Telegram to potentially spy on its users, according to the messaging app's founder. Pavel Durov, who…

Russian missiles strike Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, kill 17 people as the war approaches a critical stage

pbs.org Three Russian missiles slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Wednesday, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least…

Ukraine may have just crossed Putin's nuclear red line

newsweek.com Ukraine's reported kamikaze drone attack on a Russian radar site earlier this month may have crossed one of Moscow's red lines for potential nuclear weapon use — the…

Xi Jinping is hyping China as Ukraine's peacemaker

businessinsider.com By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . You can opt-out at any time. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on…

Putin faces new rebellion in Russia's back yard

newsweek.com Fresh protests against a Russian-inspired security law are roiling Georgia—a small but strategically located nation in the South Caucasus—as the Black Sea nation struggles…

Georgia's parliament votes to approve so-called 'Russian law' targeting media in first reading

apnews.com Georgia's parliament has voted in the first reading to approve a proposed law that would require media and non-commercial organizations to register as being under foreign…

Mandiant links hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia, which claimed to target utilities in France, the US, and Poland, to Russia-linked hacking group Sandworm

wired.com Russia's military intelligence unit known as Sandworm has, for the past decade, served as the Kremlin’s most aggressive cyberattack force, triggering blackouts in Ukraine…

Ukraine sees allies help protect Israel and asks: What about us?

nbcnews.com KYIV, Ukraine — In the wave of Iranian drones and missiles that were shot down before reaching their targets over the weekend, another ally sees the possibilities, and…

Will Iran attack hinder support for Ukraine?

theweek.com Supporters of Ukraine have condemned the hypocrisy and double standards of the US and its allies to rush to Israel's air defence, while refusing to intervene in missile…

There’s a gaping hole at the centre of the Tory party where ideas should be. The risk is Liz Truss will fill it

theguardian.com It would be charitable to ignore Liz Truss. Attention is her addiction and any dose, even laced with scorn, sustains the toxic belief that she has important things to say.…

Poles and Ukrainians are at loggerheads. That’s good news for Putin

economist.com FLASHING BLUE lights shield protesting Polish farmers from the ten km-long line of Ukrainian lorries they are holding up at the Hrebenne-Rava Ruska border crossing. The…

What the world can learn from Ukraine's fight for democracy

ted.com "A flourishing democracy next door is a scary thing for an autocrat," says Ukrainian historian Olesya Khromeychuk. Detailing the history of Ukraine's long struggle for…

Western multinationals’ Russian dilemmas

economist.com Doing business with an autocracy is always tricky. Doing business with a brutal warmongering one like Russia confronts bosses with unusually stark moral quandaries. They…

How not to botch the upcoming EU leadership reshuffle

economist.com Editor’s note (February 19th): On February 19th Ursula von der Leyen announced that she would seek a second term as president of the European Commission. Featuring on a…

France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe

economist.com RUSSIA HAS been at the forefront of internet disinformation techniques at least since 2014, when it pioneered the use of bot farms to spread fake news about its invasion of…

Meet Boris Nadezhdin, Vladimir Putin’s brave challenger

economist.com “Idon’t have the charisma of Alexei Navalny or Boris Nemtsov. You can’t make Che Guevara out of me, no matter how hard you try. I have no illusions and don’t pretend to be a…

A New Year’s interview with Volodymyr Zelensky

economist.com The president of Ukraine is angry; not about the successes of his enemies (he sees none) nor even about his own army’s lack of progress on the battlefield. Instead,…

How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties

economist.com Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, and Ebrahim Raisi, his Iranian counterpart, have several things in common. Both belong to a tiny group of leaders personally targeted by…

What do you do with 191bn frozen euros owned by Russia?

economist.com In economic terms, an asset has value because an owner might derive future benefits from it. Some assets, like cryptocurrencies, require a collective belief in those…

Blinken to Jewish leaders: Escalation with Iran is not in U.S. or Israel's interests

axios.com Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a group of American Jewish leaders on Tuesday that further escalation with Iran is not in the interests of either the U.S. or Israel,…

Leading Russia watcher in China makes surprise Ukraine war prediction

newsweek.com A Chinese specialist on Russia has delivered a grim forecast for Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine: that it is doomed to fail. Peking University professor Feng Yujun is also…

Russia to grow faster than all advanced economies says IMF

bbc.co.uk The IMF is an international organisation with 190 member countries. They are used by businesses to help plan where to invest, and by central banks, such as the Bank of…

Critical $100M Russian radar system 'Nebo-U' destroyed: Kyiv

newsweek.com Ukrainian forces have knocked out a Russian long-range radar system outside of the country's borders, according to Ukrainian media. The attack is the latest of Ukraine's…

Olympics 2024: is Paris ready to party?

theweek.com The lighting of the Olympic torch today comes amid a "dampening" of enthusiasm for the Paris Games in an increasingly "fractious" France, commentators warn. "We're ready for…

US-Russia collaboration has long endured in space. The Ukraine war could ruin it

aol.com None The International Space Station has long been a symbol of international cooperation. • None Astronauts and cosmonauts from the US and Russia work closely together on…

Lenin Revised

nakedcapitalism.com Yves here. We were among those to point out, relatively early, that Russia would dictate terms when the Ukraine war ended. But John Helmer was first to recognize that…

War and Crypto: Will Iran-Israel crisis swim or sink Crypto ahead of Halving?

cryptotimes.io April 15, 2024: “War is the science of destruction,” former Canadian Prime Minister John Abbott had once said. As the crisis between Iran and Israel brews in the Middle…

Russia could take Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, within months

newsweek.com Ukraine's second-largest city, located just miles from the Russian border, is an appetizing target for Moscow—and Kyiv knows it. "Kharkiv is one of the capitals of Ukraine,…

Zelensky urges hard line from the West to combat Russian "terror"

newsweek.com In the name of thwarting "terror," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pressed leaders of Western allies to enact the "same level of protection" against Russia's air…

Mystery as Texas man missing in occupied Ukraine after joining Putin's army

newsweek.com A U.S.-born fighter with pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine has gone missing, according to Russian-linked media reports, after intensified clashes in Ukraine's Donetsk…

Putin issues urgent Russian ship decree

newsweek.com Vladimir Putin has ordered his prime minister to create a shipbuilding plan for the next decade within two months, after one of his officials lamented how western sanctions…

Ukraine’s foreign minister says Israel's thwarting of Iran's attack shows what Kyiv needs from allies

pbs.org The success of Israel and its allies in largely thwarting a massive Iranian missile and drone attack shows what Ukraine could achieve against Russian aerial barrages if it…

On Ukraine, GOP’s Vance pushes claims that Russia wants to hear

msnbc.com It’s been a couple of weeks since House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul was surprisingly candid about one of his party’s direction. “I think Russian…

Putin has a dam problem

newsweek.com Widespread flooding in Russia exacerbated by dams not holding up have raised questions about the the disaster response of President Vladimir Putin's officials and the…

Russia's saber-rattling against neighbor risks drawing China's ire

newsweek.com Russian saber-rattling against Kazakhstan for failing to back Moscow's war on Ukraine risks angering China and further destabilizing the central Asian region, according to a…

As Russia’s attacks step up, Ukraine fears waning Western support

economist.com NOT MANY non-Russians know Russia as well as Oleksandr Lytvynenko. Ukraine’s new national security chief spent five formative years in Moscow as a cryptology cadet at the…

Newsguard downgrades credibility scores for New York Times, GB News and Daily Star

pressgazette.co.uk News publisher rating company Newsguard has downgraded its credibility score for The New York Times, removing the perfect rating the title held since Newsguard first…

Yellen Says Nothing Off Table in Response to China Overcapacity

livemint.com Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the US wouldn’t take “anything off the table" in response to China’s manufacturing capacity, including the possibility of additional…

The U.S Space Force Just Greenlit A First-Of-Its-Kind Combat Exercise In Outer Space

slashgear.com The U.S Space Force Just Greenlit A First-Of-Its-Kind Combat Exercise In Outer Space The U.S. Space Force is about to make history by conducting the first-ever in-orbit…

Barrick faces new pressures from Mali’s military junta as regime seeks control of mining sector

theglobeandmail.com Barrick Gold Corp. ABX-T is facing mounting pressure in Mali as the country’s military regime seeks to boost its control of the multibillion-dollar mining sector at a time…

Ukraine's top commander says Russia aims to capture Chasiv Yar by May 9

investing.com Ukraine's top commander said on Sunday Russian forces aimed to capture the town of Chasiv Yar by May 9, setting the stage for an important battle for control of high ground…

How is the Israel attack viewed in Iran?

euronews.com Tehran's strikes on Israel likely mean more problems for ordinary citizens, already struggling under a deeply unpopular Islamic regime. Iran's first direct military…

Ukraine war maps reveal possible Russian advances into fortress cities

newsweek.com New maps show the "backbone" of Ukraine's defense in the eastern Donetsk region, as Kyiv's army chief warns that the situation on the eastern front had "significantly…

US Helps Pro-Ukraine Media Run A Fog Machine Of War: Lee Fang

zerohedge.com US Helps Pro-Ukraine Media Run A Fog Machine Of War: Lee Fang Authored by Lee Fang via RealClear Investigations and LeeFang.com, Ukraine’s American-backed fight against…

US, UK Ban Deliveries Of Russian Copper, Nickel And Aluminum To Western Metals Exchanges: Here's What This Means

zerohedge.com US, UK Ban Deliveries Of Russian Copper, Nickel And Aluminum To Western Metals Exchanges: Here's What This Means On Friday, the US and UK imposed new restrictions on trading…

The Moscow-Beijing alliance is here to stay because partnering with China is the only way Putin can sustain his conflict with the West, think tank says

businessinsider.com Reuters/Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti/Kremlin Russia's growing partnership with China isn't going to fade, a think-tank director said. That's because Moscow's alliance with…

10 Sunday Reads

ritholtz.com Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • The Rise Of The Bee Bandits: Where once there was cattle and horse rustling, the…

Ukraine war: Germany sends Patriots, UK and US metal ban, China sells military parts to Moscow

euronews.com By Euronews with Mared Gwyn Jones and AP Berlin will send much-needed air defence systems to Kyiv as Moscow escalates attacks on Ukraine's power plants. Volodymyr Zelenskyy…