Tag: sochi
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Interview w/ Michael Vail of StratRisks on Sochi, TPP, Ukraine
For our first installment of ‘Geopolitiks’ – a new series examining the real “news of the world” – we’re joined by Michael Vail of the indispensable StratRisks.com to help us look at the five-ring Sochi circus, the looming Trans-Pacific Partnership and the shaky situations in the Ukraine, South Sudan and more. “Read all about it!”…
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Sochi 2014 Security Updates
The Sochi Olympic Games and the Threat of a Terrorist Attack. Who is Behind the Caucasus Terrorists? Putin says Boston marathon bombing by Chechen brothers justifies intense Sochi security Putin’s ‘ring of steel’ becomes obvious at Olympics Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/02/04/216915/putins-ring-of-steel-becomes-obvious.html#storylink=cpy Snow cannons to surveillance boxes, here’s the tech at play in Sochi Journalists to…
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Avoiding Sochi Snoopers: Using Tor, Common Sense and Nail Polish to Prevent Russian Authorities Spying on Journalists
from ibtimes.co.uk: The Russian authorities are planning to monitor the online activity of every athlete, organiser and journalist during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, which begin later this week. Last year Russian prime minister Dimitry Medvedev signed into law a decree which, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, authorises the government to “collect telephone…
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Sochi Flashback: “Satanic Dancing on the Bones of Our Ancestors”
July 3, 2013: Islamist Rebel Vows ‘Maximum Force’ to Stop Sochi Olympics* from reuters.com: Russian Islamist rebel leaders urged their fighters on Wednesday to use “maximum force” to prevent President Vladimir Putin staging the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. In an online video recorded in a forest, Doku Umarov said an order not to…
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Sochi Officials Order Stray Dogs Killed Ahead of Olympics
from foxnews.com: Thousands of stray dogs have been living amid the mud and rubble of Olympic construction sites, roaming the streets and snowy mountainsides, and begging for scraps of food. But as the games drew near, authorities have turned to a company to catch and kill the animals so they don’t bother Sochi’s new visitors…
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Sochi Security Force to Be 40,000 Strong
from cbsnews.com: Officials in Russia are dealing with perhaps the only sporting event with even bigger security concerns than the Super Bowl – the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Security has tightened with the start of the games days away.
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US, Russia Forces Hunt Jihad Widow Feared Inside Olympic Zone
from foxnews.com: U.S. counterterrorism operatives are helping Russian security agents in the hunt for four female potential terrorists, including a “white widow” — the wife of a dead terrorist — who could already be inside the massive security zone set up for next month’s winter Olympics. Ruzanna Ibragimova, the 22-year-old widow of a jihadist killed…
