Day: December 7, 2019
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U.S. Says Drone Shot Down by Russian Air Defenses Near Libyan Capital
The U.S. military believes that an unarmed American drone reported lost near Libya’s capital last month was in fact shot down by Russian air defenses and it is demanding the return of the aircraft’s wreckage, U.S. Africa Command says. Such a shootdown would underscore Moscow’s increasingly muscular role in the energy-rich nation, where Russian mercenaries…
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‘Russia’s 20th Century: A Journey in 100 Histories’
Professor Michael Khodarkovsky’s “Russia’s 20th Century: A Journey in 100 Histories” seems to prove Rudyard Kipling’s theory that” if history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” “Russia’s 20th Century: A Journey in 100 Histories” distills one of the more complex, thorny, dystopian and tragic eras of history into a…
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Leak of Classified Papers Ahead of U.K. Election Tied to Russian Operation
The leak and distribution of classified UK-U.S. trade documents online is tied to a previous Russian disinformation campaign, social media site Reddit said on Friday, fueling fears that Moscow is seeking to interfere in Britain’s upcoming election. Britain’s opposition Labour Party seized on the leaked documents on Nov. 27, saying they showed the ruling Conservatives…