Day: June 2, 2017

The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions against nine organizations and three individuals for cooperation with the DPRK in the field of development of missile and nuclear technology. About it reports Reuters. In the list fall under the restrictions of the two Russian companies: “Ardis-Bearing” and “Independent petroleum company”, as well as a citizen of Russia Igor Michurin born in 1978. In addition, under the American sanctions were companies from China and the DPRK, as well as several of the citizens of these countries. May 29, North Korea fired another missile, allegedly of Scud (NATO designation of the Soviet R-17). According to the South Korean military, rocket, which was launched from the province of Gangwon, has covered a distance of about 450 kilometers. In the United States reported that the flight lasted six minutes, the missile fell into the sea of Japan. In South Korea and Japan called the missile launch

The head of the French Agency for cybersecurity Guillaume Poupard said that his Department found no indication that the attacks during the presidential campaign were the hackers from Russia. The official said in an interview with the Associated Press. According to him, the attack was so simple that to do it could anyone, anywhere. In addition, Poupart confirmed that his office found no traces of the hacker group APT28, which also is suspected in break-ins during the presidential campaign in the United States. On the night of 6 may, the day before the second round of presidential elections in France, WikiLeaks has published a mass of documents of the team of Emmanuel Macron — at that time candidate countries. The staff stated that were victims of a “coordinated hacking”operation. The national Commission for monitoring the elections of the President of France addressed the media with a request not to use

The administration of U.S. President Donald trump in the first weeks of its operation were ready to normalize relations with Russia, however, the appointees of the former administration of Barack Obama and staff members of this Department strongly opposed. It is reported portal Yahoo! News, citing several sources. In particular, it is argued that senior White house officials almost immediately after taking office asked the staff of the Department of state to develop proposals for the lifting of economic sanctions, the release of diplomatic property, and other steps to get rid of tensions with Moscow. Efforts to reduce or eliminate the punitive measures imposed by Obama in response to attributed to Russia’s intervention in Ukraine and the presidential campaign in the United States in 2016, has alarmed some officials of the foreign Ministry. They immediately began to convince the leaders of Congress to quickly enact laws that prevent the administration