The Federal Bureau of investigation, the U.S. conducted searches in the company Optima Management Group associated with the Ukrainian businessman Igor Kolomoisky, reports Bloomberg.
It is reported that agents conducted "law enforcement operation" in Cleveland and Miami at the addresses which coincide with addresses of the offices of the company Optima Management Group. It is noted that in the framework of this operation did not detain anyone.
The former agent of FBI counterintelligence Peter Strzok, who was fired after the scandal because of his correspondence with a colleague critical of the US President, has written a book about the "threat" posed by Donald trump and his team of spectacular Robert Mueller, it will be published on 8 September, according to the website of the publisher.
"Veteran of the FBI, standing up to the Russian investigation, drawn from the long experience of hunting for foreign agents in the United States to uncover the threat posed by President trump," reads the description of the book on the publishers website Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books
The FBI says the researcher from China, which the U.S. government wanted on charges of fraud in obtaining a visa, was granted asylum at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco, reports CNBC, citing court documents.
As stated in the documents submitted in another case, Tang Juan received a non-immigrant visa United States last fall to conduct the study at the University of California in Davis. After some time, the FBI agents found on the Internet pictures of women in uniform. With her on the interview, in which she said that never served in the army and was a member of the Communist party of China.
Family revelations, tears and arguments about abortion — that memorable first public performance of the newly-minted presidential candidate U.S. rapper Kanye West. He was put on the ballot only in Oklahoma, but extravagant election campaign has already started. Meanwhile, the real contenders — Joe Biden and Donald trump are in a race whose outcome is more unpredictable.
The American rapper, producer and designer Kanye West many titles: European champion, a Grammy — award 21, the best-selling musician, a regular in the Forbes list, one of the most influential people in the world by Time magazine. Now Kanye is aiming for the presidency at the head of the "Birthday Party".
Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton jointly introduced American audiences likely explanation for the possible defeat of the Democratic candidate in the upcoming US presidential election. Probably, in case of victory of Donald trump in the elections it will be used as a pretext or for impeachment, or (more likely) for refusal of the recognition of the election results and the organization to seize power by force. Joe Biden, citing data from us intelligence — said that "the Russians try to delegitimize our electoral process."
However, as the defendants in the crimes allegedly committed against the will of American democracy, are not only we. Joe Biden, again with reference to information of the American intelligence services that it receives, said that "China and others are also involved in the action that we have lost confidence in the results (of the elections. — Approx. ed.)".
The Federal Bureau of investigation United States (FBI) launched an investigation into the hacking of several accounts of famous people and companies on the social network Twitter, reported RIA Novosti on Thursday in the Bureau office in San Francisco.
"The FBI is investigating the incident, which affected several Twitter accounts belonging to famous personalities, and which occurred on 15 July 2020. This time the accounts had apparently been hacked with the intent to commit fraud, cryptocurrency," - said the Agency interlocutor.
Former Prosecutor Andrew Weissman, who worked in the team of "Russian investigation," Robert Mueller, will release in late September, a book about the investigation, said Random House.
"This is the story of our investigation of how our democracy attacked Russia, and how those who have encouraged and ignored the attack, undermine our ability to find the truth," said Weisman in this regard, stressing that he was proud of his work.
In the case of an American financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a new twist. After August 2019, the he killed himself in prison, the investigation establishes new offences and looking for accomplices. Possible accomplice of Epstein — his friend, socialite Gilane Maxwell. The prosecution believes that she was put buddy underage "masseuses". That is known about this story — in the material RIA Novosti.
In the detention center Brooklyn Maxwell is waiting for the court hearing is scheduled for July 14. A week ago, 58-year-old woman was hiding in his mansion in new Hampshire. The house she purchased for cash through frontman and lived there under a false name.
The judge in the case of former adviser to Donald trump, Michael Flynn asks appeals court to reconsider the decision to close the case, according to court documents.
Earlier, the court of appeal by a majority of two votes against one ordered the judge to dismiss the case, citing the relevant decision of the Ministry of justice. However, judge Emmet Sullivan, who has in the past threatened Flynn with jail, asked an expanded panel of the court of appeal to reconsider this decision.
A US resident pleaded guilty to illegal possession of secret information to national security Agency U.S. (NSA) and the kidnapping of a child, according to the U.S. Department of justice.
It is noted that 47-year-old Elizabeth Jo Shirley, a resident of West Virginia, pleaded guilty on two counts in the indictment: "the intentional storage of information on national defence" and "international child abduction by one parent".
US authorities detained more than 100 people for participating in riots and causing damage to Federal property, reported on Monday the press Secretary of the White house Keighley Makineni.
"The justice Department detained more than one hundred anarchists for the riots and destruction of Federal property. The Ministry of justice also filed charges in Federal court of four men for attempting to throw off the pedestal the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette square," she said.
The emergence of fake news about Russia and Afghanistan in the American media - an attempt to exert psychological influence on the Russian diplomats and to interfere with their work, so in the spirit of the cold war, says former Deputy Secretary General of the UN, Deputy Secretary of the Public chamber of Russia Sergey Ordzhonikidze.
Previously, the newspaper the New York Times, citing an unnamed us intelligence officials published an article in which asserted that military intelligence of the Russian Federation allegedly offered a reward associated with the Taliban militants for attacks on American soldiers in Afghanistan. No evidence was provided. The Russian Embassy in the United States demanded from the authorities an adequate response to the threats made to the diplomats because of false news about Russia and Afghanistan.
The US President Donald trump has promised to sign before the end of this week, the Executive decree on the protection of monuments, he stated at a press conference in Washington after talks with the President of Poland.
"We already have a law on the protection of monuments ... but I think we should gather all the various aspects together in one very strong decree, I think he will be ready by the end of the week," said trump.
The court of appeal in the United States renewed the claim of the heirs of a Russian citizen Ibrahim Todasheva to FBI agent Aaron McFarlane who shot Todasheva in 2013.
The citizen of the Russian Federation Ibragim Todashev was a friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who carried out a major terrorist attack in Boston in April 2013 and then shot by the police. Todashev was killed in his apartment in may of that year, an FBI agent. Four of the agents who were present at the death Todasheva, said that he tried to attack them, and then was shot.
If Germany has received from the United States confirm the fault of anyone in the cyber attacks on the Bundestag that Russia is ready to consider them, but such failure will be treated as baseless accusations, said in an interview with RIA Novosti first Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Titov.
"If the German side have received from Washington documentary evidence of someone's guilt, then we are ready to consider these materials. Their presentation we will be treated as baseless charge of Russia", - he said.
The German foreign Ministry has not presented the Ambassador of the Russian Federation proofs of fault of Moscow in the cyber attacks on the Bundestag, said in an interview with RIA Novosti first Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Titov.
"All this for a long time the German authorities any evidence of guilt of our country is presented. They have not provided them and to our Ambassador during the conversation the German foreign Ministry", - he said.
DNA and genealogical databases helped Swedish police to detain a suspect in a double murder 16 years ago in Linkoping, said on Tuesday the Swedish Prosecutor's office.
In October 2004, unknown persons attacked the eight-year-old boy and stabbed him with a knife. Later, the assailant attacked the 56-year-old woman, caught in its path, and disappeared. At the crime scene he left a folding knife and a cap with traces of DNA. In the investigation participated the state Commission for the investigation of the murders, investigators even sought the help of the consultants from the FBI. The Swedish media call the double murder in linköping the loudest in the country after the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986.
The attorney General of Minnesota in the United States intends to impute the ex-policeman Derek Chavanu passing on the case of George Floyd, more serious crime and charged with murder, said the Senator from Minnesota Amy Klobuchar.
Previously Chavanu were brought against the accused of murder of the third degree, that is, unintentionally causing death by committing extremely dangerous for other actions.
A court in France has approved the transfer of the accused in the genocide in Rwanda businessman Félicien Kabuga to the proceedings before the international residual mechanism for criminal tribunals (MOMUC), informs TV channel France 24.
MOAT - UN, executing, among others, the function of the International Tribunal for Rwanda, whose mandate was completed in 2015.
The anti-terrorist unit of the FBI will investigate violence by anti-fascists and other groups, said the Prosecutor General — head of the Ministry of justice of the United States William Barr.
Earlier, the President, Donald trump declared that the United States will make anti-fascist movement in the list of terrorist organizations.
Residents of the American city of Minneapolis on lake street street, which suffered from arson during the four days night of protests related to the death of an African-American George Floyd, preparing for the fifth night as a siege. The police, they do not expect, and unrest, they say, can not be avoided.
The death of the African-American George Floyd caused the riots in Minneapolis and other cities after the appearance of "viral" video of the arrest of Floyd. The video shows that the police tackled Floyd and handcuffed him, and one of the officers leaned a knee on the neck of the Floyd. The detainee first few times he says he can't breathe and then losing consciousness. Floyd was admitted to hospital and died in intensive care.
The new York city police, using pepper spray, were forced away from the motorway, a group of protesters because of the death in Minneapolis of the African-American George Floyd, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
Previously part of the demonstrators climbed the Brooklyn bridge and then turned onto the overpass of the FDR highway and blocked traffic in both directions. The railway passes along the Eastern shore of Manhattan.
The police will not allow protesters closer than one block from the White house, told the journalists of the presidential pool, working in the residence of the President of the United States.
About 1 thousand people on Friday protested because of the death of an African-American George Floyd in the Park just near the fence of the White house in Lafayette Park. Six people were detained, some officers of the Secret service has suffered.
A column of protesters for the murder of an African-American George Floyd, smashed a police van in new York, goes to the heart of Manhattan, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
They had previously stopped accompanying the convoy of a van and knocked it into the glass.
The US President Donald trump has promised to stop the riots.
"We cannot allow and will not allow a small group of criminals and vandals to destroy our city," said trump, speaking in Florida.
Died in Minneapolis African American George Floyd and the defendant in his case an ex-COP Derek Caven a year before the incident worked in the same nightclub, the newspaper New York Times.
According to her, the 46-year-old Floyd and 44-year-old Caven worked in one of the Latin night club in Minneapolis and both were responsible for the maintenance of order. It is reported that a former police officer worked there as a guard, and killed Floyd worked as a bouncer.
The family of black George Floyd, who was killed during the arrest by the police in Minneapolis, requires to reclassify charges to the detainee the police on more serious, the statement said family members, which is published representing their attorney Ben crump.
Chavan was accused under two articles — murder of the third degree, that is negligence. The article "murder in the first degree" roughly corresponds to Russian phrase "felony murder".
A crowd of protesters in connection with the death of an African-American to George Floyd at the hands of police perpetrated acts of vandalism in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, according to footage on local TV channels.
The protesters smashed several police cars, and one of them was set on fire. Went near the place of the March to the CNN building — its glass wall broke, and the logo of TV at the entrance painted offensive slogans.
Protest against violence by police officers held in downtown Washington at the White house, the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
In the campaign, which is dedicated to the memory of George Floyd, who died after police detention in Minneapolis, attended by about 1,000 young people. About half of them African Americans. In hands they held posters with slogans "black Lives matter", "Stop the shooting", One of the slogans "I can't breathe", reproduces the words of George Floyd before his death.
The white house was briefly closed Friday evening because of the protests that erupted due to the death of an African-American to George Floyd at the hands of police, told the Fox News channel.
Pool of journalists who were outside the building, asked to go inside, then the entrance and exit were blocked. In the West wing of the White house, there were about a dozen journalists, said the TV channel.
A resident of Florida Alison Marie Sheppard received 5 years and 10 months in prison for attempted aiding suicide bombers from ISIS*, said in a press release from the U.S. attorney's office in Fort Myers.
Sheppard, also known as "Ayesha Abdullah," pleaded guilty in supporting terrorist organizations in 2019.
Michael Flynn, who served as Advisor to the elected President of Donald trump, and the then Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak discussed in December 2016, a joint interest of the two countries to stability in the middle East, Kislyak also raised the issue of settlement in Syria, according to documents declassified U.S. intelligence on Friday.
The leakage of conversations of Flynn and Kislyak appeared in the "Russian case", when Russia is accused of meddling in elections, which Moscow denies, and in "cahoots" with trump that deny not only the Kremlin but in the White house. Spectacular Robert Mueller at the end of a two-year investigation confirmed the accusations of "interference", but did not confirm the theory of "conspiracy". Talking Flynn Kislyak was intercepted by U.S. intelligence and published on Friday in the form of a paraphrase with a number of gaps. For example, completely wiped out the content of the conversation on December 22.
The police in Minnesota for the last day of made arrests for looting and arson, said to journalists on Friday, the city Commissioner of safety John Harrington.
"(City police)-Saint Paul, patrol service and other made arrests for robbery, and arson. In my opinion, for arson, too, was for robbery - exactly... I don't know if already filed charges because the majority (of detention) had been in the last 24 hours... So the arrests were arrests still there," he said. His communication with the media was broadcasting the Fox News channel.
I. a Reporter for CNN and the camera team covering the unrest after the death of an African American in Minneapolis, was detained by police live.
To the dark skinned reporter Omar Jimenez, who led the live broadcast, the police came. He said that they are live, with the team of the TV channel of the three men and told the cops that they can just back up.
Social network Twitter has marked the message of the President of the United States Donald trump about the situation in Minneapolis, where continuing unrest over the death of afroamericana George Floyd, as violating the rules of the company about the glorification of violence.
Earlier, trump wrote on his Twitter, which can direct to Minneapolis soldiers of the National guard, if the mayor can't get the situation under control. The President said that "or very weak radical left mayor Jacob Frey will take action and take control of the town," or he would send the city the National guard and "make it right". Trump also wrote that "we take (the situation) under control, but when the looting starts, the shooting starts".
Seven people were injured in a shooting during protests in Louisville, Kentucky, the participants of which demanded a fair investigation into the death of African-American Brianna Taylor, who was shot by police in March, according to the newspaper the Louisville Courier Journal.
Protest in connection with the murder of Brianna Taylor, held Thursday evening, which was attended by several hundred people, ended in riots, during which it was broken a few storefronts. Police used tear gas to disperse the protesters. According to the newspaper, the 26-year-old Brianna Taylor died the early morning of 13 March at his apartment after the police during the execution of a search warrant and shot her eight times. Police opened fire after one of them shot the boyfriend of the girl, believing that there was a break.
More than 500 soldiers of the National guard of the United States directed to places of unrest in the American cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, where protests caused by the death of George Floyd, who died after police detention, according to the national guard of Minnesota.
Minneapolis and St. Paul earlier on Thursday requested the assistance of the National guard in the riot. In addition, the President of the United States Donald trump after criticism of the mayor Jacob Frey threatened to send in the Minneapolis national guard soldiers and "make it right".
The US President Donald trump said that can guide to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where continuing unrest over the death of an African-American George Floyd, members of the National guard, if the mayor can't get the situation under control.
Mass unrest in the city continued for the third day, people protest against the police action that led to the death of the African-American George Floyd. In the night of Friday, protesters burned a police station, law enforcement officers had to be evacuated from the roof by helicopter. Eyewitnesses reported to media that the incident was absent soldiers of the National guard, which the Governor of the state of Minnesota mobilized to quell the unrest.
American protesters in Minneapolis burned a police station, law enforcement officers had to be evacuated from the roof by helicopter, no one was hurt, according to the Fox News channel.
Mass unrest in the city continued for the third day, people protest against the police action that led to the death of the African-American George Floyd.
The authorities of the American city of St. Paul, adjacent to Minneapolis, has requested from the authorities of the state of Minnesota through the National guard amid unrest that spread before the city, reports on Friday CNN.
"We have requested the assistance of the National guard and expect that the answer will be positive", - quotes the channel of the mayor of St. Paul Melvin Carter.
The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey declared the city a state of emergency for up to 72 hours amid protests over the death of an African-American George Floyd after police detention, stated in the order on the website of the municipality.
"A state of emergency effective from the date of this order and will continue... within 72 hours of the date of this order," - said in a document dated may 28.
In Minneapolis, protesters attacked the ambulance crew who arrived when someone in the place was bad, reports on Friday the Fox News channel.
According to the correspondent, before the third police station of the city, where he worked as officers, arrested the deceased subsequently African American George Floyd, again the people gathered. In the video we can speak about 200-300 people gathered.
The Governor of Minnesota Tim now signed a decree on attracting units of the National guard to ensure safety against the backdrop of unrest caused by the death of George Floyd, who died after police detention, said not the Governor's website.
The authorities requested support from the national guard after "substantial damage to private property and the transformation of peaceful protests into a dangerous situation," the report says.
The speaker of the house of representatives, Nancy Pelosi said that the death in detention of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis was murder and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
"It's very, very sad, because the American people saw this execution, a murder with my own eyes. It was not self defense (the police). Here justice must follow its course", she said to TV channel MSNBC.
The German foreign Ministry summoned the Russian Ambassador Sergey Nechayev's something about the hacker attack on the Bundestag in 2015.
The German foreign Ministry claims that the attack made the alleged member of the group ART28 Dmitry badin, who was at that time an employee of the GRU.
The results of the investigation of a hacker attack on the German Bundestag, perfect in 2015, should be discussed between Germany and Russia, told RIA Novosti Vice-President of the Bundestag Petra Pau (Left).
Federal prosecutors in Germany in may issued an international warrant for the arrest of the citizen of the Russian Federation Dmitry Badin, who is suspected of involvement in the hacker attack on the Bundestag in 2015. Badin is also wanted by the FBI, us investigators it is referred to the group of seven Russians suspected of cyberwoman, the FBI believes that he is an employee of the Russian military intelligence GRU. On Thursday, the Russian Ambassador in Berlin, Sergei Nechayev was summoned to the German foreign Ministry in connection with the case about the attack on the Bundestag. As stated earlier, Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Berlin has not provided evidence of Russia's involvement in the hacker attack on the Bundestag.
The speaker of the U.S. house of representatives Nancy Pelosi accused the administration of President Donald trump's unwillingness to protect civil liberties and privacy of Americans, a statement the speaker made against the backdrop of trump's threats to veto a bill that regulates electronic surveillance.
She also confirmed that, given the failure of the Democrats and Republicans to vote for the bill, remove it from the discussion. Now, according to her, the fate of the document will decide the special conference, which will include representatives of both houses of Congress who will try to work out a common text.
The U.S. Department of justice announced the death of an African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis died after harsh treatment of the police, a matter of special importance.
"The Ministry of justice has assigned investigation priority and instructed his experienced prosecutors and FBI investigators," - said in the message published on the website of the Ministry of justice.