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Tallinn City Office has turned to the Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to investigate if the city's contractual partner BMA Estonia and Russian TV channel PBK are tied to Russian oligarch Yury Kovalchuk, currently sanctioned by the European Union. The city cannot show any PBK programs until the assessment is finished. "Until the Financial Intelligence Unit gives us an assessment, we cannot finish procuring Russian TV programs nor can we conclude contracts for programs for the new year," Mayor of Tallinn Mihhail Kõlvart (Center) said on Friday. The city was notified of the necessity...

Several russian entities for this. in addition to that, they have also targeted the fsb, the russian internal security service and gru, military intelligence service, for cyber sanctions. obviously, they have already been hit with sanctions as it relates to ukraine and crimea and what's happened there. this time they're saying we're going at you with specific cyber-related sanctions for what you did in the election and what you continue to do to critical u.s. infrastructure since may of 2016 and up to current date. so that's kind of the key things from this. but the best road map, as far as th...

Here in the united states. what can officials do in what are they doing to prepare for this? >> i think we saw this with the tunisians. tunisia is the largest pool of recruits for isis and these other islamist groups overseas. so they go overseas, and when they return the local internal security service doesn't know that they should be tracking them. so that's very important. if you don't know who's back in your country, who might be one of these islamist terrorists then you don't know who they are. that's why it's very important now that the united states and law enforcement agencies know who...

Welcome back to "starting point," everyone. we are live in boston this morning, covering the latest developments in the bombing investigation. let's bring in gary berntsen, the author of "human intelligence: counterterrorism and national leadership." he's also a former cia officer and a former unit head of the cia's bin laden unit. gary, thanks so much for being with us. let's start with this latest development. because just hours ago, cnn learned of an overnight raid in russia. russian special forces raiding a militant group with possible links to tamerlan tsarnaev. at a minimum we know that ...

Dagestan they could right now be interviewing the parents of the two bombing suspects in a building belonging to the fsd, the russian internal security service. the fsb say they're doing this with the cooperation of authorities, or helping them with their investigation. this is the first chance the authorities have to talk to the parents and have them key questions, in particular, what was their son, tamerlan tsarnaev, up to when he visited them in dagestan the first half of 2012. we know he was there for six months. there's some suspicion it was during his time there he could have met people ...