K-219 was a Project 667A Navaga-class ballistic missile submarine (NATO reporting name Yankee I) of the Soviet Navy.It carried 16 R-27U liquid-fuel missiles powered by UDMH with nitrogen tetroxide (NTO), and equipped with either 32 or 48 nuclear warheads. The Progress MS-16 has blasted off atop a Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket towards the orbital outpost from the Baikonur spaceport. [118][119] Election-security task forces established before the 2018 midterm elections at the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Security Agency and the United States Cyber Command have been expanded and "made permanent". Warns Against Foreign Election Meddling", "FBI Director Chris Wray reacts to DOJ watchdog report on Russia investigation: Exclusive", "U.S. Humboldt maintains a complete ISO/IEC 17025: 2005 accredited calibration and repair facility in Raleigh, North Carolina. [35] On September 20, 2019, Microsoft announced that it would provide free security updates for Windows 7, which reached its end-of-life on January 14, 2020, on federally-certified voting machines through the 2020 United States elections. Trump tweeted a press report about the investigations, later stating that he would make allegations of corruption by the Bidens a central theme of his re-election campaign. [66] During this period, Richard Burr (R-NC), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, also warned Johnson that Johnson's investigation could aid Russian efforts to promote distrust in the United States' political system. [20] The Department of Homeland Security indicated that the threat of ransomware attacks upon voter registration databases was a particular concern. [152][153], According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The New York Times, Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani repeatedly pressed the Ukrainian government to investigate Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden, leading to the ongoing[update] Trump–Ukraine scandal. [1][2] In February and August 2020, United States Intelligence Community experts warned members of Congress that Russia was interfering in the 2020 presidential election in then-President Donald Trump's favor. 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[71], In May 2020, Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Derkach, a Giuliani associate whom Evanina had named as a key participant in Russian interference, released snippets of alleged recordings of Joe Biden speaking with Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian president during the years Biden's son, Hunter, worked for Burisma Holdings. Microsoft, who detected the cyberattack, informed SKDKnickerbocker that Russian state-backed hackers were the likely perpetrators. [54], Responding to spurious claims of foreign outsourcing of vote counting as a rationale behind litigation attempting to stop official vote counting in some areas, Krebs also affirmed that, "All votes in the United States of America are counted in the United States of America. "[106], On October 5, The Washington Post reported that the State Department had revoked the travel visa of Giuliani associate Andrii Telizhenko. [23][24] As of September 2020, intelligence officials point to Russia as the more "acute threat" to the election, saying that China has been expressing its preferences by public rhetoric rather than engaging in covert operations to denigrate a candidate or otherwise interfere in the election itself. The expert group thinks that the coronavirus was passed on to humans from an intermediary animal host, the head of the WHO mission to Wuhan told a special briefing "[27] The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have stated that Russian cyberattacks have targeted "U.S. state, local, territorial, and tribal government networks, as well as aviation networks". One intelligence official asserted the earlier testimony had overreached and that Democrats had mischaracterized it. Bloomberg News reported that its sources told them Giuliani's high-profile publicity of the Shokin statement had greatly reduced the chances of the Justice Department dropping the charges against Firtash, as it would appear to be a political quid pro quo. "[85] Giuliani denied any association with Firtash, though he told CNN he met with a Firtash attorney for two hours in New York City at the time he was seeking information about the Bidens. 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[79][80] Attorney general Bill Barr confirmed in February 2020 that the Justice Department had created an "intake process" to analyze Giuliani's information. Russian Progress cargo ship launched into orbit to deliver cover plates to seal lSS leak This is the first launch of a Russian cargo ship to the ISS in 2021 MOSCOW, February 15. Some publications may contain information not suitable for users under 16 years of age. Also, the spacecraft’s cargo compartment will carry a repair and recovery kit consisting of a set of reinforcing plates with an adhesive bond to temporarily seal the detected defects in the hull of the inter-section compartment of the Zvezda service module in the space station’s Russian segment, the Roscosmos press office said. [131], On September 30, 2019, the United States issued economic sanctions against seven Russians affiliated with the Internet Research Agency, an organization that manipulates social media for misinformation purposes. [45][46] According to election-security expert Laura Rosenberger, "Russian attempts to sow discord in the Democratic primary would be consistent with its strategy of undermining Americans' faith in democratic institutions and processes. [105], H.R. NAEBC accounts were blocked or suspended by Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, but their content "got more traction" on Gab and Parler, according to a Reuters report. It was later reported that the reference to Trump had not been in Ratcliffe's prepared remarks as signed off by the other officials on the stage, but that he added it on his own. There was no indication or evidence that there was any sort of hacking or compromise of election systems on, before, or after November third. A court in Russia has upheld a fine of 146 billion rubles (£1.4bn/$2bn) for mining giant Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) as a result of its role in one of the country’s worst oil spills in history. "[43] Sanders acknowledged that his campaign was briefed about Russia's alleged efforts about a month prior. The existence of this report, published at the end of August 2020, was made public knowledge on September 22 in reports from The Washington Post and The New York Times. The briefers reportedly did not intend to contradict their previous testimony, though they avoided repeating it. In August 2020, Trump tweeted that "Chinese State Media and Leaders of CHINA want Biden to win ‘the U.S. [129] All 67 election supervisors in Florida have been required to sign nondisclosure agreements, and consequently, information such as the identity of which four counties had been hacked by Russian intelligence in 2016 remains unknown to the public. The broad Russian espionage attack on the U.S. government and private companies, underway since spring and detected only a few weeks ago, … MOSCOW, February 15. [163], As of early October 2019[update], there is evidence President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, U.S. Attorney General William Barr, as well as Trump's personal attorney Giuliani have solicited help from Ukraine and China for assistance in discrediting Trump's political opponents. Of the two writers eventually credited on the article, the second did not know her name was attached to it until after it was published. The launch was initially planned for December 2020, but it was postponed until 2021 due to a need for additional checks. [114] Giuliani was later quoted as saying he had given the hard drive to the New York Post because "either nobody else would take it, or if they took it, they would spend all the time they could to try to contradict it before they put it out. We've developed a suite of premium Outlook features for people with advanced email and calendar needs. "[151], In a June 2019 interview with George Stephanopoulos, Donald Trump said that he would accept information from other nations about his opponents in the 2020 United States presidential election. According to an investigation by The New York Times, editors at the New York Post "pressed staff members to add their bylines to the story", and at least one refused, in addition to the original author. [94] The social-media companies deleted accounts that had been used in an operation to recruit American journalists to write articles critical of Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris. Veil of secrecy makes it impossible for Florida voters to know", "Dem lawmaker to her party: 'Take action' on impeachment by September or 'shut it down, "Rep. Clark Backs Impeachment Probe, Putting Pressure On Pelosi", "All Washington House Democrats now favor Trump impeachment inquiry", "U.S. Reps Heck, Kilmer, Schreir, and Del Bene announce support of impeachment inquiry", "With Sanctions on Russians, U.S. [132], On December 9, 2019, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray told ABC News: "as far as the [2020] election itself goes, we think Russia represents the most significant threat. ", "Did Trump Try to Extort the President of Ukraine Into Investigating Joe Biden? [64] That same day, Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, asserted that Republican senators investigating Biden and his son were "acting as Russian launderers of this information. The bulletin, intended to be distributed among law-enforcement agencies, indicated that Russian disinformation operations would denigrate the mental health of Joe Biden. The launch is transmitted on the Roscosmos website. [113] A year and a half earlier, in early 2019, White House officials had been warned that the Russians were planning to leak forged emails in the weeks before the election, and that Giuliani could be the conduit for such a leak. The emails warned that "You will vote for Trump on Election Day or we will come after you. [26], According to United States intelligence officials interviewed by The New York Times, Russian "operations would be intended to help President Trump, potentially by exacerbating disputes around the results, especially if the race is too close to call. [150], Russian officials denied that it had interfered in the 2016 election or that it was interfering in the 2020 election. /TASS/. These include a hardening of American cyber defenses, reluctance on Russia's part to risk reprisals, and the fact that misinformation intended to delegitimize the election was already prevalent within the United States thanks to unfounded claims by Trump and others. "[108] Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe announced that evening that the emails, using a spoofed return address, had been sent by Iran. election". [104] Russia's Internet Research Agency also created a fictitious press organization, the "Newsroom for American and European Based Citizens", in order to feed propaganda to right-wing social media users. [107], On October 21, threatening emails were sent to Democrats in at least four states. The shop owner told reporters that he thought the person who dropped it off was Hunter Biden but wasn't sure. [40] Fake accounts based in Russia posed as Americans of varied political backgrounds and worked to undermine the campaign of Joe Biden, aiming to sow discontent with Biden from both the left and the right. The statement disclosed that it had been prepared at the request of attorneys for Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash, which since July 2019 included Joseph diGenova and his wife Victoria Toensing — both close associates of Trump and Giuliani. Moments before, while discussing negotiations on a possible agreement in the ongoing China–United States trade war, he said that "if they [China] don't do what we want, we have tremendous power." 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[87] Prior to that mid-August meeting, Barr had been briefed in detail on the initial Trump–Ukraine whistleblower complaint within the CIA that had been forwarded to the Justice Department, as well as on Giuliani's activities in Ukraine. Details of Evanina's report were not made public. [28], Various disinformation campaigns on social media have targeted the Democratic Party candidates running in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries. [110], In October 2020, the FBI reportedly launched an investigation into whether a story published in the tabloid journal New York Post on October 14 might be part of a Russian disinformation effort targeting Biden. This is the first launch of a Russian cargo ship to the ISS in 2021. 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These campaigns originated from Russia and from Iran. Reasserts Putin Is Likely Directing Election Influence Efforts to Aid Trump", "Secret CIA assessment: Putin 'probably directing' influence operation to denigrate Biden", "US warns of 'ongoing' election interference by Russia, China, Iran", "U.S. Sees Russia, China, Iran Trying to Influence 2020 Elections", "US says Russia, China and Iran are trying to influence 2020 elections", "2020 Election Meddling by China, Iran, N. Korea Likely, Administration Officials Warn", "It's not just the Russians anymore as Iranians and others turn up disinformation efforts ahead of 2020 vote", "FBI Director Wray: Russia intent on interfering with U.S. elections", "F.B.I. [50] A CNN investigation found that Russian efforts had partly been outsourced to troll farms in Ghana and Nigeria. Towards 2050, nuclear power is an option for decarbonization, though there is some movement towards eliminating nuclear power. Russian interference in the 2020 United States elections was a matter of concern at the highest level of national security within the United States government, in addition to the computer and social media industries. [75][76] In September 2020, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned Derkach, stating he "has been an active Russian agent for over a decade, maintaining close connections with the Russian Intelligence Services." It's hard to tell", "Microsoft Takes Down a Risk to the Election, and Finds the U.S. [25] Wray testified to the House Committee on Homeland Security on September 17, 2020 that Russian efforts to damage the Biden campaign were "very active". [157][158] The purpose of the requested investigation was alleged to be to damage Biden's election campaign for president. [143][144] Intelligence community officials have publicly and privately said that the underlying intelligence indicates that while China would prefer Trump not be reelected, the nation had not been actively interfering and that Russia remained the far greater threat, working to undermine Biden. Kash Patel, a former aide to congressman Devin Nunes who joined Grenell at the ODNI, imposed limits on what intelligence officials could tell Congress about foreign influence operations. As in other countries, however, Soviet nuclear waste was also dumped at sea, and now the focus has shifted there. He is also reportedly close to the Kremlin to support Russian interests in Ukraine. Doing the Same: Fearing Russian ransomware attacks on the election, the company and U.S. Cyber Command mounted similar pre-emptive strikes. 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These officials were also concerned that Giuliani would be used as a conduit for disinformation, including "leaks" of emails that would mix genuine with forged material in order to implicate Hunter Biden in corrupt dealings. [89][91][92][93] An NBC report in the wake of this incident found that Ruptly edited user-generated protest videos to highlight violence over peaceful protest. [85], By the summer of 2020, Russian intelligence had advanced to "information laundering" in which divisive propaganda was reported on Russia-affiliated news websites with the expectation the stories would be picked-up and spread by more legitimate news outlets. [85] Firtash denied involvement in collecting or financing damaging information on the Bidens. DHS chief of staff John Gountanis halted the release pending review by secretary Chad Wolf. [97] Trump had repeatedly asserted without evidence that voting by mail would result in widespread fraud. Election. [116], On October 7, 2020, the government of Hall County, Georgia had all its election-related information released by Russian hackers using DoppelPaymer ransomware. Based on attacks that had targeted political organizations, and on experience from 2016 and 2018, Microsoft anticipated "attacks targeting U.S. election systems, political campaigns or NGOs that work closely with campaigns".
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