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Russian special services have prevented 78 terror attacks in Russia over the past two years, Director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov announced on Thursday. Over the past two years, the Russian special services and law-enforcement agencies have prevented 129 such (terrorist) crimes, including 78 terror attacks, the FSB chief said at an international conference within the framework of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly.
According to him, the Russian special services and law-enforcement agencies have routed underground criminal gangs in the North Caucasus and foiled the activity of some terrorist organizations’ cells, TASS reported.
Russia has also expanded the range of tools for fighting terrorism financing, continues work to legislatively formalize measures against the spread of false bomb scares and is establishing additional requirements for communications providers, the FSB chief said.
iTWire Friday, 16 April 2021 07:16 US alleges Russia behind SolarWinds compromise, imposes curbs on six firms Featured Image by MariaShvedova from Pixabay
The United States has alleged that the Russian security agency known as the Foreign Intelligence Service was responsible for the attack on the supply chain of SolarWinds Orion network management software.
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a statement issued on Thursday US time, the White House said American intelligence agencies had high confidence in this assessment.
To date, no cyber security company, including FireEye, the firm that first made the SolarWinds compromise public, has attributed the attack to any country.
FireEye
revealed that its own Red Team tools had been stolen.
The U.S. State Department has called for the release of an RFE/RL freelance correspondent arrested in Ukraine's Russia-annexed Crimea region and joined human rights groups in expressing concern over his treatment and a televised "confession" he gave.
Executive Summary
What kind of impact can Russia have on U.S. attempts to prevent large-scale or sustained terrorist attacks on the American homeland, a vital national interest for Washington? This primer assesses this question by reviewing the past history of U.S.-Russian interaction in the counterterrorism domain and looking ahead to near-term terrorism challenges that the U.S. may face, and Russia may influence, one way or another. Its key judgment is that although combatting terrorism is unlikely to provide the basis for transforming the troubled U.S.-Russian relationship into a strategic partnership, Russia has demonstrated a strong ability to help the United States prevent terrorist attacks on U.S. targets. In assessing future prospects, we must remember that counterterrorism cooperation is not binary but exists in varying degrees. Bilateral cooperation on threat warnings has been ongoing for more than 20 years and few people, even Russia hawks, think that should stop. Joint
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Russian President Vladimir Putin s chief security adviser Nikolai Patrushev has accused the United States of experimenting with biological weapons in regions near the borders of China and Russia, according to Newsweek.
Patrushev said: . more and more biological laboratories under U.S. control are growing considerably in the world and by a strange coincidence, mainly along the Russian and Chinese borders. Americans help local scientists develop new ways to fight dangerous diseases, said Patrushev, who was formerly the director of Russia s Federal Security Service. He made the comments during an interview with the newspaper Kommersant.