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Russian warplanes, based on Admiral Kuznetsov heavy aircraft-carrying missile cruiser, destroyed 1,252 terrorist targets in Syria over 2 months, commander of the Russian military group in the country Col. Gen. Andrei Kartapolov told journalists on Friday. “Over two months, naval aviation pilots carried out 420 sorties (including 117 at night). Nearly all sorties were accompanied by severe hydrometeorological conditions. A total of 1,252 terrorist targets in Syria were destroyed,” Kartapolov said. Now, the Russian Navy is returning Admiral Kuznetsov and its battlegroup from the Mediterranean to its home base in Russia’s Severomorsk, the chair of the Russian General Staff, Army Gen. Valery Gerasimov, announced on Friday. The move comes as Russia begins reducing its military presence in Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial pullout of military forces from Syria after the announcement of the ceasefire deal in Syria in December, 2016.

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A hacker has breached the FBI official website for the second time and said that its security systems are very “lazy.” Photo: naimun.modelun.org A hacker, known by the nickname CyberZeist, claims that he has breached the official website of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for the second time. According to CyberZeist, who posted some of the private information, which he managed to obtain to the open source site Pastebin, the FBI security systems are very “lazy.” “This leak is totally devoted to the Anonymous Movement,” CyberZeist wrote. Reportedly, vulnerability in the Plone Content Management System (CMS) of the FBI was exposed by the hacker, who allegedly penetrated the website’s systems without prior warning. According to RT TV-network, the Plone CMS security system is also used by Google and federal agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) . According to CyberZeist, he managed to obtain information on 155 FBI agents, including such personal details as their ...