Archives: July 2016

Kiev reports 44 attacks yesterday.

The Russian defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, announced the creation of 4 corridors out of the city his air force has spent months pulverizing.

President Vladimir Putin has made a number of personnel shuffles, removing the governor of Russian-occupied Sevastopol and putting a KGB general in charge of Kaliningrad Region bordering Baltics.

It’s now clear, Donald Trump would pursue policies that are very favorable to the Russian President, and very unfavorable toward key US allies in Eastern Europe.

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.

Meanwhile the level of fighting in the east has dropped somewhat, and the leader of the Lugansk separatists has said he is prepared to send negotiators to talk to Nadiya Savchenko.

ON MY MIND Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan are the odd couple. In many obvious ways they are similar. Both the Russian and Turkish presidents are alpha males who seem to enjoy basking in their manliness. Both have cracked down on civil society, suppressed civil liberties, and used the threat of terrorism and foreign […]

A pattern true in Soviet times appears to be returning at least in some places – greater freedom in smaller regional media markets than in larger central ones.

When Russian hackers were reported to have broken into the computers of the Democratic National Committee on June 14, the Russian media — state, pro-Kremlin and independent — covered the event, but briefly, and using only Western media reports

The evidence clearly implicates the Russian government in the hacking of the DNC, a clear attempt to influence November’s election. And it’s not the only one.