“On August 12, 1952, Bergelson’s sixty-eighth birthday, he was executed.2 For decades, before the transcripts of the trial became accessible to the public following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the date was known, and observed in many Jewish communities the world over, as the Night of t[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Russia’
July 18th, 2017 - 5:43 pm § in Donald Trump
RUSSIA ANNEXES EASTERN UKRAINE
A WEEK AFTER TRUMP’S SECRET MEETING WITH PUTIN< RUSSIA SETS UP A PUPPET GOVERNMENT IN “LITTLE RUSSIA” Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, released the following statement today on Russian-backed separatists proclaimi[...]
July 17th, 2017 - 11:41 am § in Donald Trump
RUSSIA WAR GAMES DEMOCRACY
Russia Spent A Fortune Shilling For Trump – And May Not Have Broken Any Laws U.S. election laws never imagined a foreign power inventing fake news and spreading it online to influence an election.[...]
June 11th, 2017 - 10:30 am § in Foreign Affairs
Putin’s Opposition
The Kremlin critic Aleksei A. Navalny called for an anticorruption protest across Russia on Monday, and aims to run against President Vladimir V. Putin, if he can get on the ballot. Read Mr. Navalny’s Blog. [...]
May 3rd, 2017 - 7:12 am § in Uncategorized
Is Snowden Part of the KGB Attack?
Mike James There was no apparent reason to say no when those daily drip-drips of Clinton emails were offered to the American press, and no newsroom said no – nor did they when Edward Snowden started unpacking the national security secrets he’d stolen. Eager to print is the true takeaway.[...]
April 21st, 2017 - 12:35 pm § in America, Donald Trump
TRUMPGATE
The official leading the Justice Department’s investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s campaign had ties to Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election is leaving her position next month. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary B. McCord told the staff of the department’[...]
April 20th, 2017 - 8:06 am § in Donald Trump
Reuters: Smoking Guns for Russian Interference in US Elections
Exclusive: Putin-linked think tank drew up plan to sway 2016 U.S. election – documents[...]
April 19th, 2017 - 5:36 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Is this the smoking gun?
“A Russian government think tank controlled by Vladimir Putin developed a plan to swing the 2016 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump and undermine voters’ faith in the American electoral system, three current and four former U.S. officials told Reuters. They described two confidential[...]
April 15th, 2017 - 7:24 am § in Donald Trump
Is this the smoking gun in Trumpgate?
Former MI6 chief says Trump borrowed money from Russia The former head of MI6 has said Donald Trump borrowed money from Russia for his business during the 2008 financial crisis. INDEPENDENT.CO.UK[...]