04/08/2014 -
► Protests that began on Sunday in the Ukrainian cities of Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Luhansk continue as the fledgling Ukrainian government attempts to regain control of the nation’s volatile eastern region. Police did manage to take back a government building that had been occupied by pro-Russian separatists in Kharkiv in what the Ukrainian foreign ministry called an “antiterror” operation, the Wall Street Journal reports. Government buildings in all three cities had been taken over by protestors on Sunday. Ukrainian officials are accusing Russia of inciting the protests, “suggesting that their powerful neighbor is trying to orchestrate a takeover similar to its incursion and annexation of Crimea,” according to the article. “While the scenario appears similar to what preceded Russia's annexation of Crimea last month, the new protests seem to lack the broad public support seen in that breakaway region.”
► A report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has determined that six agencies whose risk assessment methodologies were reviewed do not align with standards set by the Interagency Security Committee (ISC). A division of the Department of Homeland Security, the ISC is tasked with ensuring that federal buildings have adequate physical security measures, whether they’re government-owned, leased, or managed. The six agencies whose risk assessment methodologies did not align with the ISC are the Department of Interior, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Federal Protective Service, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Office of Personnel Management. In the report, the GAO recommended that the ISC “take action to assess member agencies' compliance and provide additional risk- assessment methodology guidance.”
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