The draft Doctrine on Information Security posted this week on the website of the Russian Security Council contains provisions which threaten not only the citizens of Russia but its neighbors and the West.
New evidence may link Central-Asian terrorists to the attack on Istanbul’s airport.
Kiev reports 66 attacks across the front line, with a major battle near Debaltsevo.
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ON MY MIND Don’t look now, but Vladimir Putin has just created the basis for a morality police. Putin has signed a bill into law that allows the Interior Ministry to monitor and collect data on “antisocial behavior” — which is so broadly defined (violating “the generally accepted norms of conduct and morality”) that it […]
Six other Ukrainian soldiers have reportedly been wounded, along with two civilians in separatist-held Donetsk.
The Kremlin changed the text of the English translation of a statement of regret sent by Turkish President Recep Erdogan, who is scheduled to call President Vladimir Putin today.
Putin’s social compact with the middle class is in danger of rupture because the Kremlin is now attacking the middle class, the ten to fifteen million people who have been able to achieve something.
Alekesi Pushkov, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs who lost the United Russia primaries has been offered to run on the ballot from the legislature of Perm Region.
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