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Niger coup: Why some people want Russia in and France out

In a sign of growing hostility towards the West since the coup in Niger, a businessman proudly shows off his outfit in the colours of the Russian flag in the traditional heartland of deposed President Mohamed Bazoum.

Since the coup, there has been a war of words between the military and the West.

Mr Bazoum was a staunch ally of the West in the fight against militant Islamists, and was a strong economic partner as well.

Niger hosts a French military base and is the world’s seventh biggest producer of uranium. The fuel is vital for nuclear power with a quarter of it going to Europe, especially former colonial power France.

The Biden regime does not enjoy widespread support for the Ukraine intervention or for it’s desire to isolate China.

What’s behind SE Asia’s muted Ukraine response?

Macron blocks NATO outpost in Japan amid Chinese complaints

Germany and France do not share a desire to isolate China which is considered an important trading partner.

In Italy Meloni has yet to withdraw the state from China’s Belt & Road Initiative.

by Blazingcatfur•August 1, 2023August 1, 2023•0•France, Niger, Russia

Brazil Worries It Has Become a Haven for Russian Spies Infiltrating the West

Alleged agents posing as Brazilians have caught the eye of the U.S. and Norway—and could be candidates in any prisoner exchange

PADRE BERNARDO, Brazil—The double life of a suspected Russian spy arrested in the far north of Norway began more than a decade earlier in this corn-and-soybean producing town a half a world away, Brazilian authorities say.

Norwegian authorities say a university researcher carrying Brazilian documentation is actually a deep-cover agent for Moscow, charging him with espionage. Investigators traced his Brazilian citizenship to a fraudulently obtained birth certificate from Padre Bernardo, in what has become a familiar pattern of identity theft and spycraft originating from this South American country.

by Blazingcatfur•July 2, 2023July 2, 2023•0•Brazil, Russia

China Overtakes Russia as Dominant Power in Central Asia

China recently hosted a summit of the leaders of Central Asia’s former Soviet Republics in Xi’an, China, the site of the start of the ancient Silk Road. The symbolism attached to Xi’an as the site for the 18-20 May gathering underscores China’s intent to remind Central Asian leaders that Chinese civilization’s relationship with the region predates ties to Russia by centuries. It also might demonstrate China’s resolve to replace Russia as Eurasia’s hegemon. China, in fact, did not even invite Russia to the conference.

by Blazingcatfur•June 16, 2023June 16, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Russia

CSIS Director Highlights How China Threat Differs From Russia’s

The foreign interference threats coming from China differ significantly from those from Russia or other countries, says the boss of Canada’s spy agency.

Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Director David Vigneault testified before the Commons Procedure and House Affairs Committee on June 13 and answered questions from MPs about the nature of the China threat.

by Blazingcatfur•June 16, 2023June 15, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Espionage, Russia

The U.S. Is Paying Billions to Russia’s Nuclear Agency. Here’s Why.

In a cavernous, Pentagon-sized facility nestled in an Appalachian valley, thousands upon thousands of empty holes line the bare concrete floor.

A mere 16 of them house the spindly, 30-foot-tall centrifuges that enrich uranium, converting it into the key ingredient that fuels nuclear power plants. And for now, they are dormant.

A 3rd World level of brazen corruption…

Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

… The New York Times’s examination of the Uranium One deal is based on dozens of interviews, as well as a review of public records and securities filings in Canada, Russia and the United States. Some of the connections between Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation were unearthed by Peter Schweizer, a former fellow at the right-leaning Hoover Institution and author of the forthcoming book “Clinton Cash.” Mr. Schweizer provided a preview of material in the book to The Times, which scrutinized his information and built upon it with its own reporting.

by Blazingcatfur•June 14, 2023June 14, 2023•0•"Clintons", "Ukraine - Russia", Russia, USA

The High-Profile Americans Who Defected to Putin’s Russia

Tara Reade, the former political staffer who alleges President Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, announced she had moved to Russia where she “felt safe,” and is seeking Russian citizenship, during an interview with the state-run Sputnik International network on Wednesday.

In April 2020, Reade filed a complaint with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department, alleging Biden had penetrated her with his fingers without consent 30 years ago, after pushing her against a Senate corridor wall. Biden has denied the allegation “unequivocally,” adding: “It never, never happened.”

by Blazingcatfur•June 4, 2023June 3, 2023•0•Russia, USA

New Russian malware could bring down the US power grid

As if you didn’t have enough to worry about. Who will bring down America’s power grid first? Joe Biden or Vladimir Putin? Biden has a head start, to be sure. But some Russian hackers have reportedly cooked up some new malware designed specifically to target electrical grids and cause disruptions. The new threat was discovered by Mandiant, a cyber threat intelligence specialist firm. They believe that this new malware system “poses a plausible threat” to the operational technology behind various electrical grid assets. (Security Week)

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2023May 31, 2023•0•Cyber War, Russia, USA

Russian hypersonic scientist accused of betraying secrets to China

LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) – The director of a top Russian science institute, arrested on suspicion of treason along with two other hypersonic missile technology experts, stands accused of betraying secrets to China, two people familiar with the case told Reuters.

Alexander Shiplyuk, head of Siberia’s Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ITAM), is suspected of handing over classified material at a scientific conference in China in 2017, the sources said.

by Blazingcatfur•May 24, 2023May 24, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Russia

The Snake, The FBI, And Center 16: Why The Takedown Of A ‘Most Sophisticated Cyber-Espionage Tool’ Is Important

For more than a decade, a unique bit of malicious computer code was burrowed in the deepest corners of Internet servers in more than 50 countries, secretly gathering data and even records of what a person might be typing on a keyboard. Important information was extracted and covertly sent via a network of other infected computers, hiding its tracks from easy detection, back to the code’s creators.

Called various names — Snake, Uroburos, Venomous Bear — the malware was suspected in a damaging hack of Germany’s Foreign Ministry in 2017. NATO computers were reportedly compromised. The personal computer of a journalist who worked for a U.S. news organization and reported on the Russian government was reportedly targeted.

by Blazingcatfur•May 13, 2023May 13, 2023•0•Cyber War, Russia, USA

China and Russia strike deal in push for Arctic power

China and Russia have signed an agreement to strengthen their co-operation on maritime law enforcement in the latest example of partnership.

The memorandum follows a two-day meeting in Murmansk, northwest Russia, and comes as Beijing seeks a bigger role in Arctic affairs and Moscow builds up military outposts in the region, including deep-water ports and airfields.

by Blazingcatfur•April 28, 2023April 27, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Russia

Russians busted for U.S. election interference — using radical black nationalist groups

After years of baseless investigations alleging that President Trump colluded with Russians to steal the 2020 election, the FBI has busted some real Russians for U.S. election meddling — and their real colluders, who were radical leftwing black nationalist groups, not Republicans.

by Blazingcatfur•April 21, 2023April 20, 2023•0•Russia, USA

Russian NGO that built ties with Canadian academics, professionals took direction from Moscow’s spies, FBI alleges

A Russia-based outreach organization that has cultivated relationships with rising American, European and Canadian policy professionals and academics has secretly received financing and direction from Moscow’s spy service, U.S. prosecutors allege.

In court documents filed in Washington, U.S. authorities say that an organization known as Public Initiative Creative Diplomacy, or PICREADI, was being used by Russian intelligence to glean information about influential foreigners.

by Blazingcatfur•April 20, 2023April 20, 2023•0•Canada, Espionage, Russia

‘A New World Order’? The Iran-Russia-China Axis During the Biden Administration

As Winston Churchill famously pointed out, “I never worry about action, but only about inaction”. The Biden administration’s inaction has led to the creation of a new axis of tyrannies: Russia, China and Iran, with North Korea not far behind. As the Tehran Times, which has close ties to Iran’s foreign ministry, wrote: “[T]oday we are witnessing the formation of a new world order….”

by Blazingcatfur•April 8, 2023April 8, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Iran, Russia

Leaked Files Show China And Russia Sharing Tactics On Internet Control, Censorship

Years before Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a “no-limits” partnership and the Kremlin launched a wide-ranging censorship campaign following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Beijing and Moscow were sharing methods and tactics for monitoring dissent and controlling the Internet.

That growing cooperation between the two countries is shown in documents and recordings from closed door meetings in 2017 and 2019 between officials from the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), its chief Internet regulator, and Roskomnadzor, the government agency charged with policing Russia’s Internet, that were obtained by RFE/RL’s Russian Investigative Unit (known as Systema) from a source who had access to the materials. DDoSecrets, a group that publishes leaked and hacked documents, provided software to search the files.

by Blazingcatfur•April 6, 2023April 5, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Russia

How the West rolled up a network of Russian ‘sleeper spies’

When a young Brazilian named Victor Muller Ferreira, with a master’s degree from a top American university, landed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport in April last year to take up an internship at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, things did not go quite according to his plan.

The Dutch authorities had been tipped off by the FBI that he was not who he claimed to be. He had been identified as Sergey Cherkasov, an officer in the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service. They promptly put him on a flight back to Sao Paulo, where two months later he was jailed for 15 years for identity fraud.

by Blazingcatfur•April 2, 2023April 2, 2023•0•Espionage, Russia