Trump Revealed Highly Classified Info to Russian FM; 20,000 Protest 5-Story Apartment Demolitions in Moscow

Muscovites protest city plans to raze Khrushchev-era five-story apartment buildings. Photo by Viktoria Odissonova

Update: President Donald Trump is said to have revealed highly classified information to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a meeting in the Oval Office.

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Trump Revealed Highly Classified Info to Russian FM; 20,000 Protest 5-Story Apartment Demolitions in Moscow

2017-05-16 01:19:31

The ruble is trading for 56.36 to the dollar and 61.91 to the euro. Brent crude is selling for $51.98 per barrel.

The following news stories were taken from Washington Post, Gazeta, RBC, Regnum, and 7:40 na perrone.

– U.S. Says Syria Built Crematorium to Handle Mass Prisoner Killings; Skeptical of ‘Safe Zones’

– Trump Revealed Highly Classified Information to Russian Foreign Minister and Ambassador

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– Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces $5.9 Million Settlement Of Civil Money Laundering And Forfeiture Claims Against Real Estate Corporations Alleged To Have Laundered Proceeds Of Russian Tax Fraud

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– Russia Insists on Special Status for Donbass

– Poroshenko Says Russia is Trying to Influence Ukraine with Cyberwar

– Putin Internet Advisor German Klimenko Says Only International Cooperation Can Defeat Cybercrime

– Bank of Russia Says Global Hack Has No Political Sub-Text

– Kaspersky Lab Says WannaCry Virus Created by Hackers from North Korea

– 20,000 People Demonstrate in Protest Against Demolition of Khrushchev-Era 5-Story Apartment Buildings

– Putin Announces Lack of Real Revenue Stream from Gazprom; Gazprom Intends to Increase Extraction to 442 Billion Cubic Meters

– Moscow Authorities Say No Votes Against Housing Demolition in 60 Districts

– State Duma Proposes Tourism Clusters in ‘People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk’

– Telegram App May Be Banned in Russia; Online Petition to Owner Pavel Durov Urges Registration as News Service

– Justice Ministry to Create Unified Data Base on Russian Citizens

– Shoot-Out at Cafe in Moscow

What We’re Reading

– Russia Celebrates Its Newly Revived Old-Fashioned Militarism by Pavel Baev [English]

– Is There a Way Out of the Minsk Agreement Deadlock? By Oleksandr Sushko [English]

– In Pictures: Russia Looms Large Over Georgia’s LGBTQ Community [English]

– The East-West SpyWar as Viewed From Putin’s Doorstep by John Schindler [English]

– Interview with Deacon Andrei Kurayev on Return of St. Isaac’s Cathedral [Russian]

– Russian State TV Edits Out Commentary On Putin And ‘Untruth’ In Hit U.S. TV Series [English]

– Leader Of 1953 Soviet Gulag Uprising Dies In Ukraine At 90 [English]

– ‘The Third World War Already Began’: Interview with Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin from the ATO Zone [Russian]

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Translation: #Ukraine Alexey Navalny – Today’s live interview on Ekho: rallies, five-storys, his eye, Vladivostok.

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