News / MN Newsletter // April 17

April 17, 2019

Russia Ukraine Reuters: Ukraine says it captured Russian military intelligence hit squad | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post UNIAN: Naftogaz CEO claims Russia may set up another gas crisis | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Combat-hardened special forces officer vows to reform UkrOboronProm | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post There's One Far-Right Movement That Hates the Kremlin - Foreign Policy Analysis | The Cybersecurity 202: Why a hacking operation by a proto-state in Ukraine could spell trouble for the U.S. - The Washington Post Reuters: Ukraine says it captured Russian military intelligence hit squad | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Reuters: Ukraine says it captured Russian military intelligence hit squad Published April 17 at 3:22 pm A man walks past the building of the headquarters of the Russian General Staff's Main Intelligence Department (GRU) in Moscow on Dec. Read More UNIAN: Naftogaz CEO claims Russia may set up another gas crisis | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post UNIAN: Naftogaz CEO claims Russia may set up another gas crisis Published April 17 at 3:15 pm Pedestrians walk past Naftogaz headquarters in Kyiv on Sept. 21, 2017. Photo by Volodymyr Petrov Read More Combat-hardened special forces officer vows to reform UkrOboronProm | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice - Kyiv Post Kyiv Post Colonel Serhiy Kryvonos, a large, bald and grisly-bearded man in his late 40s, seems to feel a bit out of place in the quietness and comfort of his new office in central Kyiv. Even though his office is richly furnished, in the best traditions of senior Ukrainian bureaucracy, he continues to wear his usual everyday camouflage clothing, as though he was still somewhere in the Donbas war zone. Read More There's One Far-Right Movement That Hates the Kremlin - Foreign Policy Foreign Policy KIEV, Ukraine—If you’ve ever been to Paris, you’ve probably snapped a photo of the very spot that’s a symbol for a far-right movement more than 1,000 miles away. It’s here along the banks of the Seine, at Notre Dame Cathedral, that an aging French man decided to make what he called a “sacrifice” a few years ago. Read More Analysis | The Cybersecurity 202: Why a hacking operation by a proto-state in Ukraine could spell trouble for the U.S. - The Washington Post The Washington Post THE KEY Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko gestures as he answers a journalist's question ahead of the presidential elections on April 21. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP) The Luhansk People’s Republic, a region that has claimed independence from Ukraine with the backing of Russia’s military, isn’t recognized by the United States, the European Union or NATO. Read More

Top News Don't Count on DHS to Resist Trump's Worst Impulses - POLITICO Top 10 bilingual books - The Guardian Ukraine’s Election Is an All-Out Disinformation Battle - The Atlantic YouTube will fight fake news in India by introducing more context through information cards - XDA Developers PUBG Mobile 0.12.0 released with EvoZone, Darkest Night and friendly spectator mode - TechRadar Don't Count on DHS to Resist Trump's Worst Impulses - POLITICO POLITICO Carrie Cordero is the Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law. Garrett M. Graff is a journalist and historian who covers national security and is the author of, among other books, The Threat Matrix: Inside Robert Mueller’s FBI. Read More Top 10 bilingual books - The Guardian The Guardian Many of us live scattered across languages. School in English; baby talk in a mother tongue; swearing and dirty talk in English; exclamations of pain (the sound that comes before words when a finger touches a hot pan) in whatever language we heard as young children. Read More Ukraine’s Election Is an All-Out Disinformation Battle - The Atlantic The Atlantic Read: Russia and the menace of unreality But offices such as Zolotukhin’s are often under-resourced, and in a divisive electoral period in which campaigns are themselves combatants in the information war, separating fact from fiction, patriot from enemy, and friend from foe is not as simple as it once was. Read More YouTube will fight fake news in India by introducing more context through information cards - XDA Developers XDA Developers YouTube will fight fake news in India by introducing more context through information cards With the advent of Reliance Jio and the onslaught of cheap-yet-capable Chinese smartphones, millions of Indians have come online for the first time in their lives. Read More PUBG Mobile 0.12.0 released with EvoZone, Darkest Night and friendly spectator mode - TechRadar TechRadar Tencent is seeding PUBG Mobile 0.12.0 update to players around the world. The 0.12.0 update which entered into beta earlier this month brings in a host of new additions to the zombie mode, a bunch of bug fixes and general gameplay improvements. Read More

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