Archives: July 2016

Not only are Russian soldiers still in Ukraine, heavy fighting continued this weekend.

Aleksandr Yefremov, former head of the Party of Regions faction, was arrested today July 30 at Borispyl as he was boarding a plane to Austria and accused of by the Prosecutor General’s Office of aiding the self-proclaimed “Lugansk People’s Republic” (LNR

Former Ukrainian foreign minister Vladimir Ogryzko says Kyiv should refuse to consent to the new Russian envoy because “the presence or absence of an ambassador of Russia in Ukraine will change nothing” and the Kremlin’s candidate is both “strange” and unacceptable.

Is Radicalization Among Russia’s Muslims Really ‘a Fiction’ as Amelina Says? 2016-07-30 00:43:20 Staunton, VA, July 28, 2016 –  Yana Amelina says that those whom she calls “the Muslim lobby” in Moscow and experts with Western ties like Aleksey Malashenko who speak about the radicalization of Muslims in Russia are engaged in spreading a false […]

In St. Petersburg, activists have forced a museum to agree to clothe a copy of Michaelangelo’s David lest it offend the sensibilities of children.

Regime helicopters are reported to have dropped barrel bombs near one of the designated ‘humanitarian corridors,’ killing five civilians.

The self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic claims that one civilian was wounded by Ukrainian shelling last night.

The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. Viewers can suggest topics via Twitter @PowerVertical or on the Power Vertical Facebook page. A transcript of today’s Daily Vertical can be found here.

ON MY MIND July has been the deadliest month in the conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas region in nearly a year. But what is driving the escalation? Is it a sign that Moscow is intent on reigniting a full-scale conflict? Or are the Kremlin’s proxies in eastern Ukraine going rogue? To what extent do the agendas […]

The Russian Ministry of Finance is proposing to slash support of small and medium business nearly in half.