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Arrest Of Russian Hacker Calls Attention To Unfinished Business In Prague

Submitted by James Durso via RealClearDefense.com,

Yevgeniy Nikulin, a Russian hacker wanted in the U.S. for hacking private firms, was arrested in Prague last October. The U.S. has requested his extradition, suspecting he has information on Russian government hacking.  With Russian hackers so much in the news, there will be close attention to this case, but Prague denied an extradition request last year, causing serious damage to American interests.

Kremlin Denies It Has "Compromising" Dossier On Trump, Calls Intel Report "Complete Fabrication"

Kremlin Denies It Has "Compromising" Dossier On Trump, Calls Intel Report "Complete Fabrication"

Responding to the latest report accusing Trump of being a Russian pawn (which may at least partially have been the spawn of a 4Chan hoax), the Kremlin said on Wednesday it was "total nonsense" that Russian officials had assembled a file of compromising information on Donald Trump.  Speaking to reporters on a conference call today, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the dossier containing the claims was a hoax which had been dreamt up to further harm U.S.-Russia relations, which are already at their lowest level since the Cold War.

World Faces Rising Risk Of Conflict: US Intel Report Admits "Era Of American Dominance Drawing To A Close"

Submitted by MiddleEastEye via TheAntiMedia.org,

The incoming Donald Trump administration faces a world of greater risk of conflict, slower growth and more anti-democratic pressures than ever since the Cold War, a new US intelligence report released on Monday said.

US leadership is ebbing amid shifts in economic, political and technological power, deep changes in the global landscape “that portend a dark and difficult near future,” according to the National Intelligence Council’s “Global Trends: Paradox of Progress” report.

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