Sentences with phrase «russian government efforts»

Lynch leaves office following a nearly two - year tenure marked by massacres carried out by violent extremists, including the shootings at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida; persistent hacking from overseas, including Russian government efforts to meddle in the U.S. presidential election; and an election - season investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server that entangled the Justice Department in presidential politics and led to criticism for her ill - timed meeting on an airport tarmac with former President Bill Clinton.

Before arranging a meeting with a Kremlin - connected Russian lawyer he believed would offer him compromising information about Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr. was informed in an email that the material was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father's candidacy.

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«Based upon his extensive business dealings with the Putin government and his previous opposition of efforts to impose sanctions on the Russian government, there are many questions which must be answered.

«The FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia's efforts,» Comey said.

«He believed she had connections to Russian government officials; and he sought to use her Russian connections over a period of months in an effort to arrange a meeting between the campaign and Russian government officials,» the filing says.

Facebook is showing an unprecedented level of transparency around its latest effort to suspend Russian trolls trying to influence elections and mislead the public as it tries to regain the trust of users and the government.

Immediately after the US and EU banned arms sales to Russia, the Russian government expedited its military modernization efforts.

Ambassador Nickolai Udovichenko who led Russian Government delegation to the event, thanked the Nigerian Government for resolving the impasse, while also lauding the efforts of the Minister.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

The head of MI6 (played without much conviction by Connie Nielsen) knows Barovsky, since she led an effort to frame his as a double agent to the Russian government, leading to his supposed execution.

By: Cara Condit, Director for Arctic Study and Policy, U.S. Coast Guard Academy The U.S. Coast Guard Center for Arctic Study and Policy (CASP) organized the recent «Governing Across the Waves Workshop: Global Insights for Transboundary Waterways Management in Sensitive and Congested Maritime Spaces,» which aimed to support the ongoing efforts by the U.S. and Russian governments to achieve the shared objectives in the Bering Strait region of safe, secure, and environmentally responsible maritime traffic.

«Fossil fuel exports account for around 16 percent of Russian GDP, 52 percent of government revenue and 70 percent of Russian exports, so it makes sense that Russian propaganda efforts would be focused on protecting their fragile economy,» Droz said.

However, their policies seem to benefit the Russian government and its efforts to use energy as a hard currency source.

The meat of Twitter's new disclosure is its effort to cross-reference Facebook's list of 470 accounts believed to be linked to the Russian government.

Facebook is showing an unprecedented level of transparency around its latest effort to suspend Russian trolls trying to influence elections and mislead the public as it tries to regain the trust of users and the government.

The ban, which the Department of Homeland Security announced in September, has resulted in a lengthy back - and - forth between Kaspersky and the U.S. Government over allegations that the software maker's products are an asset for Russian espionage efforts.

No votes were changed, but the effort — alongside a concerted Russian disinformation and hacking campaign — exposed dangerous vulnerabilities in the voting systems and the government's ability to respond.

Presumably in an effort to fan the flames of racial division and undermine national unity in America, a Russian government - linked «troll farm» has just been exposed for reportedly buying Facebook ads on behalf of the so - called «Black Lives Matter» movement.

The search giant also reportedly found another $ 53,000 worth of ads with political material that were purchased from Russian IP addresses with and paid for with Russian currency, though it it was not confirmed to be associated directly to the Russian government - backed efforts.

The report accused RT News, which is funded by the Russian government, of being a «state - run propaganda machine,» which contributed to Kremlin - directed efforts to influence the 2016 election, occasionally by spreading «fake news» about then - candidate Hillary Clinton.

The Internet Research Agency is one of the primary arms of the Russian government's propaganda efforts.