in mysterious circumstances ‘ DERELICTION OF DUTY ’ News of the purge has been trickling out through official Russian news agencies including TASS and Interfax .
This breach of objectivity in Clinton ’s favor was supported by documents , statistical tables and videos attached to the emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee ’s servers . To damp the crisis . party leaders , including Clinton , took two immediate steps that made the situation worse : They sackedpersonnel.endposition.firinglayoffthe head of the Democratic National Committee ( DNC ) , Debbie Wasserman Schultz , the day she was due to open the convention and , second , they called on the FBI to investigate the hacking and find who was responsible for the embarrassing leaks . The culprit was quickly named as Russia 's military intelligence service , the GRU , by " experts close to the examination " – namely , the information security company CrowdStrike , which was hired by the DNC , and the FBI . CrowdStrike said it had found two types of Advanced Persistent Threat ( APT ) malware inside the DNC 's servers that were intended to remain undetected for long periods of time , slowly spread inside the servers , and secretly send the data back to the culprits who planted the malware .
Further evidence of Putin ’s gathering of power into his own hands is an ongoing purge launched over the summer that has already claimed the heads of the Federal Narcotics Service , Federal Protection Service ( Putin ’s bodyguard ) , the Federal Migration Service and Russian Railways , as well as the president ’s Chief of Staff and personal confidant Sergei Ivanov . The aim in all cases seems to be to replace old - guard Putin allies with younger , more loyal and less independent figures . The same pattern has been repeated among regional governors — four of whom have recently been sackedpersonnel.endposition.firinglayoff, and two replaced by Putin ’s personal bodyguards . Protect the regime The creation of the Ministry of State Security is part of a “ project aimed at replacing old allies with new ones , ” said independent Moscow - based analyst Stanislav Belkovsky .
It was a stirring tale , an example of how “ hard choices ” can yield happy outcomes — except the story got much messier just before Clinton ’s memoir was published . Tacked onto her memoir ’s section on South Sudan is a sentence that reads like a last - minute addition : “ In late 2013 , tribal divisions and personal feuds erupted in a spasm of violence that threatens to tear the country apart . ” Those “ tribal divisions and personal feuds ” spiraled into a civil war pitting the forces led by Kiir — a member of the country ’s largest tribe , the Dinka — against those loyal to Riek Machar , the vice president he had sackedpersonnel.endposition.firinglayoffearlier in 2013 and an ethnic Nuer — the second - largest tribe in the country . Kiir said the violence stemmed from an abortive coup by Machar , but a comprehensive investigation by an African Union commission found no evidence of one . It did find evidence that “ Dinka soldiers , members of presidential guard , and other security forces conducted house - to - house searches , killing Nuer soldiers and civilians in and near their homes ” in Juba .
The suspected attackers hurled a grenade , which had had its pin removed , towards the building . However it did not explode and no one was injured . Read more : Teacher sackedpersonnel.endposition.firinglayoff' for calling Muslim schoolboy terrorist after he complained about detention ' The grenade was spotted by a security guard who alerted the authorities . ( Photo : Getty )
It was a stirring tale , an example of how “ hard choices ” can yield happy outcomes — except the story got much messier just before Clinton ’s memoir was published . Tacked onto her memoir ’s section on South Sudan is a sentence that reads like a last - minute addition : “ In late 2013 , tribal divisions and personal feuds erupted in a spasm of violence that threatens to tear the country apart . ” Those “ tribal divisions and personal feuds ” spiraled into a civil war pitting the forces led by Kiir — a member of the country ’s largest tribe , the Dinka — against those loyal to Riek Machar , the vice president he had sackedpersonnel.endposition.naearlier in 2013 and an ethnic Nuer — the second - largest tribe in the country . Kiir said the violence stemmed from an abortive coup by Machar , but a comprehensive investigation by an African Union commission found no evidence of one . It did find evidence that “ Dinka soldiers , members of presidential guard , and other security forces conducted house - to - house searches , killing Nuer soldiers and civilians in and near their homes ” in Juba .
Consider also the curious case of Victor Pinchuk , a Ukrainian steel magnate who donated over $ 8 million to the Clinton Foundation and had committed to giving as much as $ 20 million more to its initiatives . The Washington Post ’s Tom Hamburger reported last October that Pinchuk had used his Clinton Foundation connections to get a meeting with a “ top Clinton aide ” at State , but that ’s hardly all his $ 8 million bought . While Secretary of State , Clinton hosted a dinner for her foundation ’s donors , including Pinchuk , who had hired longtime Clintonista Douglas Schoen to lobby the State Department on behalf of the Yanukovich government – the pro - Russian regime that Ukrainians sackedpersonnel.endposition.firinglayoffin late 2013 , a change that was supported by the Obama administration . But wait , as television pitchmen say – there ’s more ! At the same time as Pinchuk was lobbying State and getting invited to close access dinner events through his Clinton Foundation connections , he had connections of a very different kind through his businesses .
In effect it means unelected transnational corporations can dictate the policies of democratically elected governments AFP / Getty Migrant workers could be classified as “ independent service suppliers ” , the report says , meaning they would not be eligible for the minimum wage or be allowed to join a union . People going to another country may find their visa is tied to their job , so if they were sackedpersonnel.endposition.firinglayoff, they would be deported . “ This sort of system of modern indentured labour is wide open to abuse by unscrupulous employers who may get away with illegal practices safe in the knowledge that they can threaten any employee with deportation if they complain , " the report says . “ This sort of system is used in countries like Saudi Arabia , the UAE and Qatar and has resulted in working conditions that have been described as being close to slavery . ”
The protests were met with tear gas and bullets , but were soon attracting tens of thousands of people . On March 30 , 2011 , Assad addressed the nation from the rotunda of the Syrian parliament building . He had just sackedpersonnel.endposition.firinglayoffhis cabinet , and many people expected him to announce liberalizing reforms . Instead , he declared his intention to suppress dissent in the brutal tradition of his father , Hafez al - Assad . “ Syria is facing a great conspiracy , whose tentacles extend ” to foreign powers that were plotting to destroy the country , he said .
If they are successful , it could trigger a cascade , an avalanche of similar cases in other places . ” Last week , another 32 members were dismissed from the state council for nature conservation , an advisory body which had opposed the logging plan and has been accused of “ inefficiency ” . “ We were sackedpersonnel.endposition.nabecause the new government needs scientists who will applaud increased logging , to convince public opinion that this insane idea is okay , ” said Przemysław Chylarecki , one of the dismissed scientists . Most of the new council member are foresters , or colleagues of the environment minister , he added . Facebook Twitter Pinterest Białowieża is home to Europe ’s largest bison population .
Jamie Seidel News Corp Australia Network RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has taken a page out of Joseph Stalin ’s book — and sackedpersonnel.endposition.firinglayoffevery commander in his Baltic fleet . The stated cause : corruption and incompetence . But given the endemic nature of both problems across the Russian military , Western analysts are scratching their heads as to the real reason behind the purge .
If they are successful , it could trigger a cascade , an avalanche of similar cases in other places . ” Last week , another 32 members were dismissed from the state council for nature conservation , an advisory body which had opposed the logging plan and has been accused of “ inefficiency ” . “ We were sackedpersonnel.endposition.firinglayoffbecause the new government needs scientists who will applaud increased logging , to convince public opinion that this insane idea is okay , ” said Przemysław Chylarecki , one of the dismissed scientists . Most of the new council member are foresters , or colleagues of the environment minister , he added . Facebook Twitter Pinterest Białowieża is home to Europe ’s largest bison population .
“ For the Turks , this was a test of loyalty , and Europe failed it . ” Yet Europe is right to fear that the crackdown on suspected Gulen sympathisers has spun out of control . Over 80,000 people have been arrested , sackedpersonnel.endposition.firinglayoffor suspended , including soldiers , judges , teachers , policemen , businessmen and even football officials . Nearly 100 journalists have been detained and more than a hundred media outlets shut down ; ordinary criminals have been set free to make room for political cases . Many of those purged appear to have only tenuous links to the Gulenists .