Tag Archives: Russia

Detention of top aide of Russian opposition leader Navalny

MOSCOW (AP) – A top aide to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained Friday after he allegedly opened the door to a security guard who inadvertently leaked details of Navalny’s alleged poisoning with a Soviet-era nerve agent. Lubov Sobol, a key figure in Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, was detained for …

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Trump forgives 15, makes 5 sentences, including GOP allies

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned 15 people, including a pair of congressional Republicans, a 2016 campaign official and former government contractor caught in a Russian investigation and convicted in the 2007 genocide in Baghdad. Trump’s actions in his final week in office show a president who …

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Senator says “dozens” of top Treasury email accounts

Email accounts used by the senior leadership of the Treasury Department were compromised by suspected Russian government hackers who carried out A huge cyber espionage campaign According to Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, several U.S. federal agencies The Senate Finance Committee’s ranking Democrat said the “full depth” of the Treasury hack …

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