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  • Russian social media executive sought to help Trump campaign in 2016, emails show

    12/11/2017 10:35:08 PM PST · by 11th_VA · 20 replies
    Washington Post ^ | 7 Dec 2017 | By Rosalind S. Helderman, Anton Troianovski and Tom Hamburger
    blah, blah, blah ... "The executive at Vkontakte, or VK, Russia’s equivalent to Facebook, emailed Donald Trump Jr. and social media director Dan Scavino in January and again in November of last year, offering to help promote Trump’s campaign to its nearly 100 million users, according to people familiar with the messages...." Looks like Nellie Ohr was looking for Russian Social Media Users in 2014:
  • The Latakia doctrine puts Russia in a bind - analysis

    12/29/2021 10:48:00 PM PST · by blueplum · 16 replies
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 29 December 2021 | SETH J. FRANTZMAN
    Two airstrikes on the key port of Latakia, Syria, in the same month have raised eyebrows. A report in The Wall Street Journal noted not only that Syria has accused Israel of the strike on the port this week, but also that a US official indicated that the Iranian presence at the facility “put a big target on civilian infrastructure that would not be targeted otherwise.” The fires at the port burned throughout the day on December 28, showing that whatever was destroyed at the port was flammable and likely composed of munitions or other dangerous cargo transported from Iran...
  • Russian jet crashes after takeoff from Syria airbase killing crew

    05/05/2018 6:39:35 PM PDT · by Berlin_Freeper · 20 replies
    theguardian.com ^ | May 3, 2018 | Agencies in Moscow
    An advanced Russian fighter plane has crashed in Syria, killing both members of its crew. The Russian military said the two-seater Sukhoi-30SM jet crashed on Thursday morning shortly after takeoff from its Khmeimim airbase in Latakia province.