by Jim Heath | Jan 31, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Putin
Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets Sunday across Russia to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up nationwide protests that have rattled the Kremlin. More than 5,100 people were...
by Jim Heath | Dec 19, 2020 | Cyber Security, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Trump
Donald Trump has hit out at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for blaming Russia for the huge cyber attack. In a swipe at Pompeo, the one-term defeated president who has had a love-type relationship with Russia and its authoritarian leader Vladimir Putin, tweeted today...
by Jim Heath | Dec 15, 2020 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Joe Biden
Russian President Vladimir Putin today congratulated Joe Biden on having won the American presidential election — more than a month after the Democrat became the U.S. president-elect. Putin had been one of the last major holdouts among world leaders in sending Biden...
by Jim Heath | Sep 15, 2020 | 2020, Cyber Security, Headlines
One way to avoid having your repetitive pro-Trump posts tagged as belonging to a bot is to hire teenagers in Arizona to behave like bots — and that’s exactly what the conservative group Turning Point Action did. These kids posted messages such as “Don’t trust Dr....
by Jim Heath | Sep 10, 2020 | 2020, Democrats, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Joe Biden
Russian state-backed hackers have been targeting a firm linked to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign for the last two months, according to Microsoft. The hackers targeted staff at campaign strategy firm SKDKnickerbocker – which is working with Biden and...
