Anton Troianovski, The Washington Post Published 3:10 pm, Sunday, March 18, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-5', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 5', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-9', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 9', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); Photo: Pavel Golovkin, Associated Press Image 1of/9 CaptionClose Image 1 of 9 Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to supporters during a rally near the Kremlin in Moscow, Sunday, March 18, 2018. An exit poll suggests that Vladimir Putin has handily won a fourth term as Russia's president, adding six more years in the Kremlin for the man … [Read more...] about Putin cruises to victory in Russia, tells supporters: ‘Success awaits us’
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Russia expels diplomats in spy-poisoning quarrel
By Andrew E. Kramer Updated 1:47 pm, Saturday, March 17, 2018 MOSCOW — Russia ordered 23 British diplomats on Saturday to leave the country within a week, escalating a diplomatic crisis after a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with a military grade nerve agent on British soil. The order came days after British Prime Minister Theresa May expelled the same number of Russian diplomats and called off high-level contacts between the two governments. The Russians also ordered the closing of the British Council, a cultural and educational organization, in Russia, and revoked permission for the British consulate general in St. Petersburg. The announcement came after the British ambassador, Laurie Bristow, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Moscow Saturday morning. Recommended Video: Now Playing: Russia's ambassador to the EU has suggested the nerve agent that poisoned an ex-spy and his daughter in a sleepy English city may have come from a … [Read more...] about Russia expels diplomats in spy-poisoning quarrel
Mark Zuckerberg Is Russia, Trump and Cambridge Analytica’s Useful Idiot
Why are we still using Facebook when it just admitted to providing data on 50 million users? Sharon Waxman, provided by Published 9:08 pm, Sunday, March 18, 2018 Image 1of/1 CaptionClose Image 1 of 1 Mark Zuckerberg Is Russia, Trump and Cambridge Analytica’s Useful Idiot 1 / 1 Back to Gallery What I’d like to know is why any of us are on Facebook anymore. I’d also like to know when we are going to stop treating Mark Zuckerberg like some benevolent potentate in the magical land of Tech, and start holding him responsible for what he is, and what he has done to our democracy. This weekend the New York Times revealed that Cambridge Analytica, the data science firm funded by right-wing ideologue Robert Mercer and hired by the Trump campaign to run social media campaigns and analysis in 2016, snookered Facebook into handing over the private information of 50 million users. “The firm harvested private information … [Read more...] about Mark Zuckerberg Is Russia, Trump and Cambridge Analytica’s Useful Idiot
What to expect from Putin and a resurgent Russia
Angela Charlton, Associated Press Updated 10:25 pm, Sunday, March 18, 2018 Photo: Pavel Golovkin, AP Image 1of/1 CaptionClose Image 1 of 1 A person holds a banner of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Manezhnaya square, near Kremlin in Moscow, Sunday, March 18, 2018. An exit poll suggests that Vladimir Putin has handily won a fourth term as Russia's president, adding six more years in the Kremlin for the man who has led the world's largest country for all of the 21st century. less A person holds a banner of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Manezhnaya square, near Kremlin in Moscow, Sunday, March 18, 2018. An exit poll suggests that Vladimir Putin has handily won a fourth term as ... more Photo: Pavel Golovkin, AP What to expect from Putin and a resurgent Russia 1 / 1 Back to Gallery MOSCOW (AP) — … [Read more...] about What to expect from Putin and a resurgent Russia
AP FACT CHECK: Trump strains truth in tweets on Russia probe
Hope Yen and Calvin Woodward, Associated Press Updated 9:35 pm, Sunday, March 18, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-4', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 4', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); Photo: Evan Vucci, AP Image 1of/4 CaptionClose Image 1 of 4 FILE - In this Thursday, March 15, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump talks with reporters during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington. In a series of blistering tweets on Saturday, March 17, 2018, Trump falsely asserted that the House Intelligence Committee has concluded there was no collusion between his presidential campaign and Russia. less FILE - In this Thursday, March 15, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump talks with … [Read more...] about AP FACT CHECK: Trump strains truth in tweets on Russia probe