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The U.S. Treasury Department imposed economic sanctions on Russian citizen Dmitry Kudryakov and Belarusian citizen Iryna Litviniuk, who financed and directed three mining companies in Guatemala. “The sanctions are very important because the political or judicial sanctions for these companies are not enough,” Guadalupe García Prado, director of the Guatemalan [ … ]

Evidence is mounting that, as part of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s forces have targeted civilians and unlawfully deported citizens of Ukraine from their own country. Targeting civilians and the unlawful deportation of civilians are war crimes. “The aggression against Ukraine is a manifest violation of the U.N. [ … ]

A multilingual Telegram channel sponsored by the Russian government serves as a repository for Russian propaganda videos about the war in Ukraine, Nisos, a U.S.-based digital intelligence firm that monitors disinformation and other cyberthreats, said in an October report. “The videos can be downloaded directly from Telegram and that erases [ … ]

When Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces laid siege to Kherson in Ukraine in March, they blocked Ukrainians’ access to independent news and censored web traffic. After the Burmese military seized power in a February 2021 coup, the military blocked internet access to undermine widespread public opposition to the coup and [ … ]

Nicaragua’s access to credible news is shrinking. The Ortega-Murillo regime not only continues to shut down local media and persecute its journalists, it is now also making content available from Russian radio network and broadcaster Sputnik to some 20 Nicaraguan state-owned media outlets. “This is a practice that by design [ … ]

In a late August report, U.S. cybersecurity company Venafi indicated that 66 percent of organizations worldwide modified their cybersecurity strategy, as a “direct response to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.” “Everyone is a target, and unlike a kinetic warfare attack, only you can defend your business against nation-state cyberattacks,” [ … ]

Since the ban in the European Union (EU) of RT and Sputnik, two of the main outlets spreading disinformation about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, sites under other names that publish the same content have been on the rise, experts who track fake news on the internet said. NewsGuard, a journalism [ … ]

Russia is keeping up its attempts to turn cyberspace into a battlefield by attacking its adversaries with a type of malware known as wiper, which destroys the hard drive of infected computers, erasing all data and programs, and causing enormous damage to companies and organizations, Spanish cybersecurity firm S21sec says [ … ]

Russia announced its plans to install a GLONASS satellite navigation ground station in Venezuela. The GLONASS system is similar to the GPS of the United States and the Galileo system of Europe. According to the Russian space agency Roscosmos, the deployment of the station is part of the agreement between [ … ]

Through selective threats, military activities, and disinformation campaigns, Russia has been strengthening the dictatorships of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela as a geopolitical leverage pointfor its expansion in the region, Noticias de Israel, an Israeli media outlet that broadcasts news in Spanish, reported. “Russia is acting more aggressively in the hemisphere. [ … ]

The media and officials aligned with the Kremlin are attempting to divert attention from Moscow’s responsibility for rising global food insecurity, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) said in a statement. The food crisis is worsening due to the war Russian President Vladimir Putin launched against Ukraine. It was not [ … ]

An attempt by a Russian spy posing as a Brazilian to infiltrate the International Criminal Court (ICC), which investigates Russian war crimes, has drawn attention to a scheme dating back to the Cold War era and the Kremlin’s use of spies in various regions of the world. The Dutch Intelligence [ … ]