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The coal-fired Kashira power plant near Moscow. Image: Wikimedia Commons
U.S. brags about targeting Russian power plants with cyber-attacks -- have they lost their minds?
David J. Climenhaga | In 2011, the Americans called cyber attacks an act of war. Now they're carrying out online attacks against Russia's power grid, according to the New York Times.
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Kirill Kalinin inside the Russian embassy in Ottawa a few weeks before he was expelled from Canada. Photo: David J. Climenhaga
An election's coming and the PM's treading water -- where's a Russian to blame now that we need one?
David J. Climenhaga | It was a year ago Friday that the government of Canada declared Kirill Kalinin and three other Russian diplomats persona non grata and sent them packing.
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General Jay Janzen and MRU Professor Kari Roberts. Image credit: Penney Kome
All NATO members at risk for Russian hacking: Canadian Brigadier General
Penney Kome | In advance of provincial and federal elections, Canada's director of general military strategic communications is warning that Canadians should be alert for attempts to influence the electorate.
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Many kinds of money, banknotes and coins
Donald Trump is neck deep in Putin's swamp
Penney Kome | After Helsinki, it seems clear that money, not compromising material, is likely to be the hold that the Russians have on the U.S. President.
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Provincial NDP push to ban Russian vodka empowers rightists in eastern Europe
Yves Engler | In response to Ukrainian Canadian Congress campaigning, two NDP MLAs recently convinced the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission to withdraw a brand of Russian vodka from its stores.
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The NORAD command centre in Colorado
NORAD is a relic of the Cold War and it's time to end it
Yves Engler | The 60-year-old agreement was supposed to defend the two countries from an invasion by Soviet bombers coming from the north. But the Berlin Wall fell three decades ago and NORAD continues.
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Kirill Kalinin, former First Secretary and Press Secretary of the Russian Embassy in Canada.
Was the Russian Embassy's press secretary expelled from Canada for telling the embarrassing truth? Sure sounds that way!
David J. Climenhaga | It’s not a "scurrilous story" to say Chrystia Freeland's grandfather was a Nazi collaborator and a propagandist for the Holocaust. It’s an uncomfortable fact.
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Syrian civil war map
Massacres by government forces in Syria continue
Jiselle Hanna | A conversation with Monther Alhamdoosh, a Syrian activist with the Australian Syrian Association Victoria, about the latest developments in the conflict and the desperate situation for civilians.
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Kirill Kalinin. Image: David Climenhaga
He’s no bot, but Russia's media guy in Canada manages to stir up controversy just the same
David J. Climenhaga | It certainly seems from his Twitter feed and his approach to reporters that Kirill Kalinin, Press Secretary of the Russian Embassy in Canada, can make decisions on the fly.
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Alabama was a good reminder of what democratic politics looks like
Rick Salutin | In the U.S., almost everything ends up in litigation because too many Americans lack faith in social or political forces, such as elections, government, unions, parties, social movements.
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Putin, Pussy Riot and propaganda - Boris Ivanov talks about his new film 'On Putin's Blacklist'
David Peck | Film director Boris Ivanov and Face2Face host David Peck talk about propaganda, international adoptions, state sponsored hate, LGBTQ issues in Russia, independent media and Pussy Riot.
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President Donald J. Trump and the American Legion Boys Nation. Image: Flickr/The White House
Trump Derangement Syndrome has Americans fixated on gossip rather than politics
Rick Salutin | Don't mistake gossip about Trump's tweets, with real politics that affects actual life and impacts those you care about.