from his post . Nikita Kamaev suffered a " massive heart attack , " according to a statement on the organization 's official website The 52-year - old stepped down in December following a doping scandal that saw Russia banned from international athletics
Likewise , while we have heard a great deal recently about Russian hacking — most likely Russian government - supported hacking — of emails and other communications , we ’ve heard rather less about the hacking of high - level Russian communications by ill - defined groups like Anonymous International and a collective that calls itself Shaltai Boltai , or Humpty Dumpty in Russian . Much of the information about Marine Le Pen ’s National Front getting Russian money as a seeming quid pro quo for supporting the Crimea invasion in 2014 came from this group , for instance . It also carried out impish attacks like the hacking of Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev ’s Twitter account in August 2014 , when his 2.5 million followers thought they saw him tweet : “ I ’m resigningpersonnel.endposition.na. I ’m ashamed of this government ’s actions . Forgive me . ”
" I am still convinced that we can turn the course of events . We have proven this more than once before , " he said , adding that he would not quit trying to bring peace in Syria . " Any sign of me resigningpersonnel.endposition.nawould be a signal that the international community is abandoning the Syrians , and we will not abandon the Syrians , and neither will you , " he said . ( Reporting by Michelle Nichols and Yara Bayoumy ; Editing by Mary Milliken and Bill Trott )
The chairman of Hillary Clinton ’s presidential campaign said that outgoing Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz had become a “ distraction ” and made the right move in resigningpersonnel.endposition.quitretireher post . “ I think she had become a distraction and did the right thing by deciding to resign , ” campaign chairman John Podesta told reporters Monday outside a Pennsylvania delegation breakfast in center city Philadelphia . Wasserman Schultz announced Sunday that she would leave her post after this week ’s convention amid intensifying controversy over whether the committee she runs had improperly tried to undermine the candidacy of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders .