The Russia watchTrump blaming U.S. for bad Russia relations; six takeaways from Mueller’s indictment; Russian bots, trolls test the waters, and more
• Trump meets Putin after blaming U.S. for bad relations
• Russia’s Foreign-Software Approval Service helps military hackers: Report
• Six big takeaways from Mueller’s indictment of Russian intel officers
• Russia Indictment 2.0: What to make of Mueller’s hacking indictment
• The Trump-Bolton misdirection on Russian extradition: Plenty of legal options exist to gain custody of Russian suspects
• With Trump talk of Crimea deal, will U.S. bulwark hold?
• The Russians are saying they’ve already won at the Trump-Putin summit. And they’re right.
• Russian trolls reportedly made Twitter accounts for fake U.S. newspapers but shared real news stories
• Russian bots, trolls test the waters
Trump meets Putin after blaming U.S. for bad relations (Jordan Fabian and Brett Samuels, The Hill)
President Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin for more than two hours in a one-on-one setting Monday in Helsinki, hours after blaming the United States for the bad relationship between the two countries. “Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!” Trump tweeted. “President Obama thought that Crooked Hillary was going to win the election, so when he was informed by the FBI about Russian Meddling, he said it couldn’t happen, was no big deal, & did NOTHING about it.”
Russia’s Foreign-Software Approval Service helps military hackers: Report (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)
The agency that ostensibly reviews foreign-made wares for vulnerabilities sends the lion’s share straight to its hacker squads.
Six big takeaways from Mueller’s indictment of Russian intel officers (Andy Wright, Alex Whiting, Ryan Goodman, and Kate Brannen, Just Security)
Special Counsel Robert Mueller released an indictment [Friday] of 12 Russian intelligence officers, accusing them of hacking the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). The document contained an extraordinary amount of detail about how Russian intelligence carried out its operation. Here is a roundup of the biggest takeaways from the indictment.
