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Russian courts order shipping companies to pay nearly 50 billion rubles ($629.3 million) for December 2024 oil spill in Black Sea
Meduza
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A Russian arbitration court has fully upheld a lawsuit ordering two shipping companies to pay nearly 50 billion rubles (about $622 million) in environmental damages for a December 2024 tanker disaster in the Kerch Strait. The spill devastated...
Russian APT group Curly COMrades employs novel backdoor and persistence tricks
CSO
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August 13, 2025
“By hijacking this CLSID, threat actors gain a unique persistence mechanism, allowing them to restore their MucorAgent backdoor during one of these periodic NGEN optimization scans,” the researchers found. “A critical advantage of this method is...
Declassified emails show James Clapper’s dismissive response to intel community concerns over Russia election interference report
New York Post
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August 13, 2025
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was adamant about “stickin’ to” the narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump, despite concerns raised by a top intelligence official, top secret emails...
Trump-Putin summit is latest chapter in Alaska’s long history with Russia
Texarkana Gazette - Arkansas
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August 13, 2025
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- When U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska on Friday, it will be the latest chapter in the 49th state's long history with Russia -- and with international tensions. Siberian fur...
Obama intel chief ordered team to ignore 'normal' procedures to rush debunked Trump-Russia report, new documents claim
Daily Mail
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August 13, 2025
The Trump administration released files showing Barack Obama's director of national intelligence rushed a 2017 report on Russia election interference despite warnings it could compromise findings. President Donald Trump's Director of National...
DNI Tulsi Gabbard reveals James Clapper sought to 'compromise' normal procedures to rush Russiagate hoax intelligence report
The Post Millenial
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August 13, 2025
"We may have to compromise on our 'normal' modalities, since we must do this on such a compressed schedule." Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released newly declassified emails on Wednesday evening pertaining to the Russia collusion...
Russia tries to align stars for historic deal with Trump at Alaska summit
The Irish Times
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As allies of US president Donald Trump try to reassure Kyiv and other European capitals that he will not do anything rash at Friday’s summit in Alaska, Russia wants the talks to mark a dramatic – even historic – shift in relations between the...
Rudolph and all of the other reindeer are probably dying from climate change
Vox
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August 13, 2025
It’s bad enough that climate change is ruining the dream of a white Christmas for many people, as warming makes snow in some regions less likely. Now, apparently, it’s coming for reindeer, too. Reindeer aren’t just creatures of Christmas myth;...
Russian court orders shipping companies to pay nearly 85 billion rubles ($1.1 billion) for December 2024 oil spill in Black Sea
Meduza
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A Russian court ordered three shipping companies to pay nearly 85 billion rubles (about $1.1 billion) in environmental damages for a December 2024 tanker disaster in the Kerch Strait. The spill devastated Black Sea coastlines and contaminated...
We Know How James Clapper Viewed the Russian Collusion Hoax
Townhall
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August 13, 2025
James Clapper had admitted to lawyering up ever since Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard began declassifying and releasing documents that have exposed the Russian collusion hoax to its core. We knew the prime suspects and suspected...
SBU Chief Reveals How Ukraine Used 150 FPV Drones to Destroy 41 Russian Warplanes
Kyiv Post
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August 13, 2025
Operation Spiderweb (Pavutyna), carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on June 1 this year, was one of the most high-profile attacks in the history of the Ukrainian special services. According to SBU head, Lt. Gen. Vasyl Malyuk, the...
Russia’s green lies flood Poland: 34 million posts of climate chaos
Euro Weekly News
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August 13, 2025
Young climate activists marching on the streets of Warsaw, 2020. Credit: Damian Lugowski/Shutterstock Russia is taking over the entire climate debate in Poland, according to new reports. And it is doing so in a harmful way. Moscow is reportedly...
Global Agreement on Plastic Pollution Collapses
BGNES
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August 13, 2025
Attempts to finalize a historic treaty to tackle plastic pollution collapsed into chaos on the penultimate day of negotiations, after dozens of countries rejected the latest draft, leaving talks at an impasse, AFP reported. With about 30 hours...
Obama Intel Chief James Clapper Told NSA Head To Get On Board With ‘Our Story’ On Russiagate Intel
The Daily Caller
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August 13, 2025
Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper overrode the objections of National Security Agency (NSA) Director Mike Rogers in order to advance the narrative that Russian President Vladimir Putin had interfered in the 2016 election...
From Rakhimov to Khabirov: How Bashkortostan Became the Seedbed of Russia’s Indigenous-Led Protests
The Moscow Times
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August 13, 2025
This August marks five years since protests in defense of the Kushtau mountain in the republic of Bashkortostan, one of the few successful grassroots protests in Russia’s modern history. The Moscow Times is marking the anniversary with a two-part...
‘Peace-Loving, But Locked and Loaded’: Russia and Belarus to Rehearse Nuclear Strike in Zapad-2025 Drills
The Moscow Times
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August 13, 2025
The Russian and Belarusian armies will rehearse the potential use of the nuclear-capable ballistic missile Oreshnik at joint exercises next month, state media reported Wednesday, citing Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin. “We’ll work...
Belarus, Russia to simulate nuclear planning in Zapad-2025 drills
Al Mayadeen
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August 13, 2025
Belarus and Russia will conduct Zapad-2025 military drills in September that include nuclear weapons planning, a move announced amid heightened nuclear signaling between Moscow and Washington. Belarus will hold large-scale military exercises with...
Russia’s Wartime Economy Pushes Companies Toward a Four-Day Workweek as Civilian Sector Declines
iStories
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It’s a strange thing: the economy is growing, albeit more slowly than in 2023–2024 (over five months, GDP increased by 1.5% year-on-year), but warnings of an impending recession are getting louder, even ministers are saying so. Unemployment is at...
Declassified Emails Expose More Obama-Era Russiagate Secrets
The Daily Caller
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Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper overrode the objections of National Security Agency (NSA) Director Mike Rogers in order to advance the narrative that Russian President Vladimir Putin had interfered in the 2016 election...
Deliberation Meeting On Global Forest Environment Standards And Forest Environment Index Was Held At One Heung Kong, With China's Solutions Elevated To Global Standards
MENAFN
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August 13, 2025
(MENAFN- GetNews) On August 10, the Pre-launch Deliberation Meeting on the Forest Environment Standards and Forest Environment Index took place at One Heung Kong in Guangzhou. Former Finnish Prime Minister Mari Kiviniemi and former Romanian Prime...