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Putin grants Russian citizenship to pro-Moscow journalist from Ukraine:
President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to a controversial pro-Russian journalist from Ukraine, Anatoliy Vasserman.
Putin's decree, signed on January 28, has been placed on the Kremlin's site for legislative documents.
The 63-year-old Vasserman is known for public statements challenging Ukraine's statehood.
He has said Ukraine is part of Russia and the Ukrainian and Belarusian languages are dialects of Russian.
In September, Kyiv authorities launched investigations against Vasserman.
They have accused him of calling for separatism as well as inciting ethnic and social hatred.
Vasserman, who was born in Ukraine's Black Sea port city of Odesa in 1952, has been living in Moscow since the mid-1990s. (Interfax, TASS)
Hackers may have wider access to Ukrainian industrial facilities, Reuters reports:
Hackers were able to attack four sections of Ukraine's power grid with malware late last year because of basic security lapses and they could take down other industrial facilities at any time, a consultant to government investigators said.
Three power cuts reported in separate areas of western and central Ukraine in late December were the first known electrical outages caused by cyber attacks, causing consternation among businesses and officials around the world.
The consultant, Oleh Sych, told Reuters a fourth Ukrainian energy company had been affected by a lesser attack in October, but declined to name it. Read More