21 MPs and 27 members of Georgia’s United National Movement have announced they are leaving the party today; 31 members of the political council and 5 MPs have decided to remain, including ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili, who is now in the opposition in Ukraine. Those who split from the party declared that a new…
The iconic St. Isaac’s Cathedral in St. Petersburg, will not be turned over to the Russian Orthodox Church as planned. The city of St. Petersburg will stay in control of the structure and rent it free to the church instead. The cathedral was under the control of the Communist Party…
A second, successful cyber attack was conducted against the Ukrainian power grid in December by hackers linked to the Russian government, causing power outages in the capital city of Kyiv. The attacks targeted critical infrastructure and were meant to sow confusion, rather than cripple the country. The incident came a…
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said today in a news conference that there will be no ‘reset’ with the Russian Federation. Trump mocked Hillary Clinton’s famous episode where she gave him a red reset button with the wrong word written on it. Russian and American relations worsened under Clinton and the…
The Lithuanian government has halted construction of a data center due to the contractor’s link to the Russian FSB in Kaliningrad. Officials have been warned the proposed largest data center in the country would be wired to a Russian spying center. In the SSD assessment, the AmberCore data center project,…
Russia should be banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics, declared UK Anti-Doping Agency (UKAD) last night. The head of UKAD David Kenworthy thinks that the Russian team must be excluded from participation in the Winter Olympics in 2018, which will take place in the South Korean city, Pyeongchang. “I think…