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autotldr t1_j9sdmi8 wrote

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> CANBERRA, Australia - Australia has quietly expelled a large Russian spy ring whose members were posing as diplomats, a newspaper reported Friday after Australia's main security agency revealed a major counterespionage success.

> The Australian Security Intelligence Organization, the nation's main domestic spy agency, revealed on Tuesday it had "Detected and disrupted a major spy network." ASIO has not named the country responsible.

> The Russian spies were quietly forced out of Australia over the past six months with their visas not renewed or cancelled, the newspaper reported.


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xenoghost1 t1_j9sdhrn wrote

Russia has more in common with a snake than with a bear.

a bear is a brave and solitary creature that can endure with patience the winter. Russia on the other hand is a slithering creep, that lives of attacking thing smaller than them and trying to poison things larger than themselves. cowardly, weak and unable to survive without direct sunlight to aid them with their body temperature. this an attitude reflected by all those loyal to the ghoulish cabal we politely call the Kremlin.

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autotldr t1_j9sbc0y wrote

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> A top Biden administration official affirmed that no evidence exists that Ukraine is misusing the financial assistance it is receiving from the United States.

> Samantha Power, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said during a CNN town hall on Thursday evening that Ukraine has made progress for years in working to root out corruption, but officials are continually checking to ensure funding is being used properly.

> Ukraine has struggled with corruption throughout much of its time as an independent country since separating from the Soviet Union in 1991, but Ukrainian officials have taken steps in recent years to institute reforms to limit corruption, most recently under the administration of President Volodymyr Zelensky.


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