{"id":5127,"date":"2016-08-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/kremlin-watch-monitor-special-issue-august-8-2016\/"},"modified":"2021-12-16T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T10:21:57","slug":"kremlin-watch-monitor-special-issue-august-8-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europeanvalues.cz\/cs\/kremlin-watch-monitor-special-issue-august-8-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin Watch Monitor – Special Issue August 8, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weekly monitor of pro-Kremlin disinformation effort in Europe. We follow best European analysts, best counter-measures and trends.<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

The US Presidential Elections<\/h2>\n

Several recent events turned our attention towards the situation across the Atlantic.We decided to devote our first special issue of the Kremlin Watch Monitor to the US presidential elections<\/strong>\u00a0in order to sort out what we do and do not know about the Russian connection to the hacking of the Democratic National Convention and to the US presidential candidates.<\/p>\n

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Source:<\/em>\u00a0<\/i>Wikimedia<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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What happened with the Democratic National Convention e-mails?<\/h2>\n

The upcoming US presidential elections are a place of many surprises and twists as it happens to be nowadays with the latest affair of leaked emails of the Democratic Party and the presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

As a result of cyber-attacks, up to twenty thousand work and private emails from January 2015 to May 2016 had been stolen. This correspondence was then published on the WikiLeaks server; which however, does not state its source.<\/p>\n

The entire incident was even more serious because the correspondence was made public right before the start of nomination convent of the Democratic Party in Philadelphia, where the election of presidential democratic candidate took place.<\/p>\n

The electronic correspondence contained several voice records in which we can run across statements defaming Bernie Sanders as some of the people were not content with his influence inside the Democratic Party. Consequently, this led to the revelation of the fact that Democratic Party broke the rule of neutrality during the primaries since it was supporting H. Clinton to the exclusion of B. Sanders. This information already brought down recent head of the Democratic Party \u2013 Debbie Wasserman Schultz.<\/p>\n

To get the whole picture, it is also important to mention that the cyber-attacks happened at the same time when the White House and The US Ministry of Foreign Affairs were\u00a0attacked<\/a>\u00a0by another group of hackers as well.<\/p>\n

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Who is responsible for the attacks?<\/h2>\n

Washington Post<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0was the first to come up with the assumption that the Russian Federation is behind the cyber-attacks. It bases this presumption on unnamed sources from security services. The complete issue is a subject of FBI investigation which has so far revealed that the attacks were conducted by two self-independent groups. One of them was probably connected to the FSB (Russian counter-intelligence service) and the other one was tied to GRU (Russian military intelligence service). According to the\u00a0New York Times<\/strong>, the US intelligence agencies have \u201chigh confidence\u201d that the hacking was the\u00a0work<\/a>\u00a0of the Russian government.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0spokesman<\/a>\u00a0of Russian president denied all accusations and the White House is not pointing on Kremlin directly.<\/p>\n

Servers\u00a0digg.com<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0a\u00a0The Interpreter<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0summarized the indications that suggest Russia was in fact responsible for the cyber-attacks:<\/p>\n