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Russian River Runs Red

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Wednesday, September 7, 2016 4:18 PM

Environmental regulators say they have ordered an investigation into why a river in far northern Russia turned an alarming hue of red in recent days.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology said in a statement on September 6 that residents in districts near the industrial city of Norilsk had lodged formal complaints about the apparent pollution that fouled the Daldykan River.

"According to preliminary information, the possible reason for the river pollution may be a rupture in a slurry pipeline at a Norilsk Nickel plant," the ministry statement said.

http://www.rferl.mobi/a/russia-river-runs-red-norilsk-nickel/27973757.
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Friday, September 16, 2016 3:17 PM

THGRRI

Promised Prosperity Never Arrived in Russian-held Crimea, Locals Say

More than two years after Russia annexed Crimea and promised its 2 million people a better life, residents say prices have soared, wages and pensions have stagnated and tourists have fled.

The sunny and mountainous Black Sea peninsula is back in the news, with Russian President Vladimir Putin accusing Kyiv of sending infiltrators across the border to wreck its industry.

But locals say the damage has already been done by Moscow's neglect.

We joined Russia and they stopped giving a damn about us," Yevgeny, a worker at a titanium plant in the town of Armyansk told Reuters. "People are naive. They thought that if we were part of Russia, everything would be Russian. Prices have now jumped to the Russian level, but wages have stayed the same. That's the main problem."

http://112.international/politics/voa-promised-prosperity-never-arrive
d-in-russian-held-crimea-locals-say-8952.html

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Friday, September 16, 2016 3:26 PM

THGRRI

4 Things to Watch in Russia’s Parliamentary Elections

Russia holds parliamentary elections on Sunday, and the outcome is easy to predict: President Vladimir Putin’s party, United Russia, will retain a majority; only subservient, pseudo-oppositionist parties will win a significant number of seats; and liberal opponents of the Kremlin may be shut out altogether.

So is there anything to watch for? Yes.

1. How small is United Russia’s vote? The president’s party is much less popular than he is. A recent poll put its support at 31%, far below the 80% approval rating Mr. Putin routinely commands. Popular dislike for the “party of crooks and thieves” (as Putin critic Alexei Navalny famously put it) is nothing new. But it can create problems for the president. In 2011, when the Central Election Commission announced that United Russia had won 49.32% of the vote, the number was widely considered phony, and months of demonstrations followed. The Kremlin wants no repeat.

2. Are economic grievances turning into anti-regime hostility? Russia is entering the third year of a recession, and Mr. Putin clearly believes that voters are disgruntled. He has urged United Russia’s leaders to show that they are listening. But a surge in support even for the “systemic opposition” (especially the Communists and Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s nationalists) would be seen as a real protest vote. It would shape the strategic calculations behind Mr. Putin’s own re-election strategy. (A related Moscow rumor: that the presidential vote, scheduled for 2018, may be moved up to next year.)

3. Do the numbers pass the laugh test? Since the 2011 elections, the Kremlin has introduced new obstacles to monitoring the vote count (including restricting media representatives at polling stations, requiring advance registration by other monitors, and limiting them to one station). Mr. Putin and his advisers will surely do a post-mortem on these techniques. Did they work? Are more needed? Or do such restrictions risk delegitimizing the count—and the entire electoral process?

4. Does Ella Pamfilova speak out? The most significant step Mr. Putin took to show that Russian elections are honest was to fire the previous head of the Central Election Commission—universally regarded as a crook—and replace him with Ella Pamfilova, a longtime activist and former human rights ombudsman. She wants to be taken seriously in the job. (“Let them fear Pamfilova,” she has said of those who tamper with the process.) Will she vindicate herself? Ms. Pamfilova can seize the opportunity to expose wrongdoing, or become another symbol of liberalism that kowtows to the tsar. Watch her on election night—and the day after.

In a real democracy elections decide who wins, and who rules. The Duma elections will not. Even so, they will help us measure the state of Putinism.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/09/16/4-things-to-watch-in-russias-
duma-parliamentary-elections-sept-18/

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Tuesday, September 20, 2016 4:05 PM

THGRRI

Numbers Don’t Lie: Statistics Point To Massive Fraud In Russia’s Duma Vote

a statistical analysis of the official preliminary results of the country’s September 18 State Duma elections points to a familiar story: massive fraud in favor of the ruling United Russia party comparable to what independent analysts found in 2007 and 2011.

“The results of the current Duma elections were falsified on the same level as the Duma and presidential elections of 2011, 2008, and 2007, the most falsified elections in post-Soviet history, as far as we can tell,” physicist and data analyst Sergei Shpilkin told RFE/RL’s Russian Service. “By my estimate, the scope of the falsification in favor of United Russia in these elections amounted to approximately 12 million votes.”

http://www.rferl.org/content/statistics-point-to-massive-fraud-russia-
state-duma-elections/28002750.html

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Saturday, September 24, 2016 3:14 PM

THGRRI

Didn't SIG predict a swift victory when Russia entered the war?

In Syrian War, Russia Has Yet to Fulfill Superpower Ambitions

If you held up two maps of Syria — one from last September, when Russian forces first intervened in the chaotic civil war there, and one today — you would see that the battle lines look quite similar.

Russia’s intervention has succeeded in freezing its interests, along with Syria’s battle lines, largely in place. But hundreds of airstrikes, dozens of casualties and months of diplomacy have done little to demonstrably advance those interests: The war remains stalemated, with key areas under rebel control and pro-government forces unable to retake them.

Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president, has succeeded at winning Moscow a seat at any table where Syria’s future might be decided. But he has failed to leverage Syria into rapprochement with Western governments that still shun him and impose economic sanctions. Nor has his Middle Eastern adventure rallied the Russian public.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/world/middleeast/russia-syria-ambiti
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016 3:06 PM

THGRRI

Were the Russians Behind the Massive Yahoo Email Hack?

The hack of more than a half billion Yahoo email accounts was motivated by espionage, not profit, according to an independent cybersecurity firm report released Wednesday, which contends that an Eastern European state-sponsored actor appears to have ordered the massive hack as part of a coordinated effort to infiltrate the email accounts of U.S. military, diplomatic and political figures.

The findings by the cyber security firm InfoArmor are consistent with Yahoo officials' claim last week that a state-sponsored actor was behind one of the largest corporate breaches in U.S. history.

Yet InfoArmor's version of events, if accurate, provides significant new details about how and why the company was hacked. Minor league hackers who were peddling Yahoo users' personal information for cash in "dark web" marketplaces were also part of a foreign government espionage campaign dating back to 2014. And the findings also suggest that hacks of LinkedIn, Dropbox, MySpace and other firms -- breaches affecting billions of customers worldwide -- might've been part of the same state-sponsored effort.

In an interview with NBC News prior to the release of his firm's findings, InfoArmor's chief intelligence officer Andrew Komarov described the Yahoo breach as part of a larger, ongoing campaign to break in to the email accounts of prominent officials from the U.S. and across the globe.

He said that his analysts have uncovered a previously unidentified collective of elite black hat hackers-for-hire from Eastern Europe -- a group that InfoArmor analysts now contend was also responsible for hacks of the other social media companies.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/were-russians-behind-massive-yahoo
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016 11:41 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

In an interview with NBC News prior to the release of his firm's findings, InfoArmor's chief intelligence officer Andrew Komarov described the Yahoo breach as part of a larger, ongoing campaign to break in to the email accounts of prominent officials from the U.S. and across the globe.

So Clinton's unsecured server and email accounts were an even bigger risk than first thought! What the hell is penny-ante Clinton doing blundering around in the cybersecurity big-leagues?

Let me just point out that the author left out vital relevant facts in the opinion piece. Doing that is known as cherry-picking. And whether you do that in the news, in discussion, in debate or in opinion, when you distort the facts, you've changed the nature of your communication into propaganda. But WE don't have any of THAT in the US, do we?!

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Thursday, September 29, 2016 11:16 AM

THGRRI

Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:

In an interview with NBC News prior to the release of his firm's findings, InfoArmor's chief intelligence officer Andrew Komarov described the Yahoo breach as part of a larger, ongoing campaign to break in to the email accounts of prominent officials from the U.S. and across the globe.

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So Clinton's unsecured server and email accounts were an even bigger risk than first thought! What the hell is penny-ante Clinton doing blundering around in the cybersecurity big-leagues?

There's no sign of trouble there yet. I'd say the Russian hackers are the problem.

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Friday, September 30, 2016 1:11 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

https://www.wired.com/2015/03/clintons-email-server-vulnerable/
Why Clinton’s Private Email Server Was Such a Security Fail

Not that I expect you to read the article, because, well - there are words in it - but other people might learn something.

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Friday, September 30, 2016 12:27 PM

THGRRI

Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:
https://www.wired.com/2015/03/clintons-email-server-vulnerable/
Why Clinton’s Private Email Server Was Such a Security Fail

Not that I expect you to read the article, because, well - there are words in it - but other people might learn something.

You assume I didn't watch Hillary questioned about this and testify before congress for eleven hours. You assume I didn't watch the head of the FBI testify as well. You assume I haven't heard months of truth and spin on the subject on talk shows and the news. You assume I do not understand the negative aspects of what Clinton did. And you assume what she did should trouble me more than the idea of Trump as president.

You assume wrong.

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Saturday, October 1, 2016 2:40 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

watch Hillary

Do you watch TV because you can't read?

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Saturday, October 1, 2016 3:06 PM

THGRRI

Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:

watch Hillary

Do you watch TV because you can't read?

Wow, that's piffy on a rock cake comrade.

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Saturday, October 1, 2016 4:45 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

Hillary maintained an unsecured private server, over which she conducted classified government business. That unsecured private server posed a security risk to the US, especially given the (claimed) nature and extent of the (claimed) Russian intrusion into US systems.

Hillary questioned about this and testify before congress for eleven hours

And ... ? That assumes the questioners were expert enough to address the security risks Hillary's unsecured private server posed (for the record, no senator is a cybersecurity expert). AND that assumes Hillary was telling the truth (if you want a listing of all the lies she's told, they've been posted elsewhere - multiple times). AND it assumes she's expert enough to say something meaningful about cybersecurity (tho given how much blame she's been shifting all along for all the things she didn't know that she left to 'staff' and 'others', I really doubt it).

Are any of your assumptions true?

The answers - since you're too feeble-minded to come up with them - are all 'no'.
Senators were not expert enough to ask meaningful questions about the cybersecurity risks Hillary's unsecured private server posed. Hillary doesn't have a history of telling the truth about that topic. And, Hillary wasn't and isn't expert enough to address questions about the cybersecurity risks her unsecured private server posed.
THEREFOR - senators couldn't meaningfully ask Hillary about the cybersecurity risks her unsecured private server posed, nor could Hillary answer any questions about that - even if she'd been asked, even if she decided to respond truthfully.
Your reference to Hillary's testimony is laughably off-track.

the head of the FBI testify as well

What HE testified to wasn't whether or not Hillary's server posed a security risk. What HE testified to was whether or not the FBI would prosecute Hillary.

Are YOU going to address MY post - which dealt with the security risk Hillary's unsecured private server posed, through which was sent classified government communications?

I'm betting - no.

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Friday, October 7, 2016 4:40 PM

THGRRI

Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:

Are YOU going to address MY post - which dealt with the security risk Hillary's unsecured private server posed, through which was sent classified government communications?

I'm betting - no.

Did that, no reason to worry yet, so far so good. I know, why don't you address Russian hacking. You keep saying the United States has not declared Russia as the hackers of the DNC; opps....

The US has officially accused Russia of hacking the Democratic Party. Wow 1kiki, I guess that makes me psychic.

The US Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence formally accused the Russian government of hacking Democratic Party organizations in a letter posted online Friday.

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-russia-hacking-democratic-party-dnc-
leaks-2016-10

I read in another article that "In a one-two punch, the United States also directly accused Russia of war crimes in Syria."

http://www.seattlepi.com/business/technology/article/US-accuses-Russia
-of-hacking-political-sites-9938748.php

1kiki, SIG's and Putin's worst nightmare. Especially since she is three inches taller than him. That will probably bruise his ego further and drive him to invade the Balkans.

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Sunday, December 27, 2020 1:25 PM

THG

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Environmental regulators say they have ordered an investigation into why a river in far northern Russia turned an alarming hue of red in recent days.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology said in a statement on September 6 that residents in districts near the industrial city of Norilsk had lodged formal complaints about the apparent pollution that fouled the Daldykan River.

"According to preliminary information, the possible reason for the river pollution may be a rupture in a slurry pipeline at a Norilsk Nickel plant," the ministry statement said.

http://www.rferl.mobi/a/russia-river-runs-red-norilsk-nickel/27973757.
html]

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Sunday, December 27, 2020 2:56 PM

REAVERFAN

Putin has turned Russia into pure shit.

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Sunday, December 27, 2020 4:18 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Putin has turned Russia into pure shit.

You should be happy, then!

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Wednesday, August 4, 2021 7:41 AM

THG

Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
Environmental regulators say they have ordered an investigation into why a river in far northern Russia turned an alarming hue of red in recent days.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology said in a statement on September 6 that residents in districts near the industrial city of Norilsk had lodged formal complaints about the apparent pollution that fouled the Daldykan River.

"According to preliminary information, the possible reason for the river pollution may be a rupture in a slurry pipeline at a Norilsk Nickel plant," the ministry statement said.

http://www.rferl.mobi/a/russia-river-runs-red-norilsk-nickel/27973757.
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021 8:36 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Next time I wake up and see a dozen of your dumbass Russia threads necroposted we better be at war or something, Ted.

Get some help.

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