'Not the dumbest idea, but close' - Trump plan for US-Russia cyber unit mocked
“Partnering with Putin on a ‘Cyber Security Unit’ is akin to partnering with Assad on a Chemical Weapons Unit.”
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“Partnering with Putin on a ‘Cyber Security Unit’ is akin to partnering with Assad on a Chemical Weapons Unit.”
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that neither of the pair wanted to stop talking once they’d started.
Russian authorities detained the 41-year-old opposition leader and nearly 1,000 of his supporters.
The Russian president denied meddling in the US election.
This is the latest in a deluge of allegations on the White House’s Russian links.
The Russian TV station changed the script so as to not insult Putin.
The German Chancellor confronted her Russian counterpart on the issue earlier this week.
All 78 crew members were rescued by Turkish coastguards.
As reports continue to emerge, Russia has said it does not have any confirmed information about violence against gay men in the region.
In the US, senior Democrats and Republicans have expressed support for the action.
“General Flynn certainly has a story to tell, and he very much wants to tell it, should the circumstances permit.”
He says it has been around since the 1930s and is potentially a good thing.
The US Attorney General has come under fire after it emerged he met the Russian ambassador to the US during Trump’s election campaign.
“The United States will continue to hold Russia accountable,” the Vice President said.
The President of the United States made the comments on Twitter – where else? – today.
Fox host Bill O’Reilly made the assertion during an interview with President Donald Trump last night.
Trump was speaking in an excerpt of a Super Bowl interview with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly.
The former chair of Republicans Abroad Ireland tells us why he thinks Russia probably has compromising material on the new US President, but it might not matter.
It’s easy to see why Russia has been pro-Trump but that could quickly turn sour, writes Neil Robinson.
Meanwhile, the President-Elect says he may scrap sanctions of Russia recently put in place by President Obama.
Trump has hit out at intelligence agencies for allowing the report to leak.
A new report says the Russian president acted on grudges against the US after being embarrassed by the Panama Papers and the Olympic doping scandal.
And Arnie had a suitably withering response for the president elect’s barb about the actor’s ratings for his Apprentice TV show.
It comes as the Assad regime intensifies its bombardment of a rebel district home to the capital’s main water source.
The US intelligence community has said Moscow interfered to help Republican Donald Trump win.
The US President-elect had said the US needs to expand its nuclear capabilities until “the world comes to its senses regarding nukes”.
Today’s press event saw some journalists holding up placards comparing Putin to Superman.
The US President-elect made the comment a few hours after Vladimir Putin said something similar about Russia.
Andrei Karlov died of his wounds after the shooting in an Ankara exhibition centre,
Intelligence officials are said to have a “high level of confidence”, according to NBC.
“From the motherland to Syria to the US presidential elections, Putin continues to get what he wants.”
A lot of far-right leaders are very happy with the election result.
The election follows a tumultuous few years that have seen Russia seize the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine and start a military operation in Syria.
Clashes of the conflict have returned to the highest level in a year.
According to the Republican presidential nominee, Putin “has very strong control over a country”.
The Russian President has kept Queen Elizabeth II and the Pope waiting, but recently found time to meet a group of privileged students from Britain’s elite school in possibly his weirdest photo-op.
From Vladivostok on the Pacific coast to Russia’s European exclave Kaliningrad, millions of residents are forced each year to shiver through icy showers.
Paul Manafort previously worked as a consultant for former president Viktor Yanukovych’s party.
“We lived through a very complicated moment,” Putin said, referring to an incident last November when Turkey shot down a Russian bomber on the Syrian border.
And yes, you read that correctly.