Archives: October 2016

Early this past summer, Chechen law-enforcers prevented an assassination attempt on Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

Your daily roundup. ON MY MIND One has to wonder why Russia decided to so flagrantly violate a ceasefire in Syria when the terms of the truce were so clearly in Moscow’s interests. Is Vladimir Putin’s regime simply intent on humiliating and taunting the West? With the recent all-out assault on Aleppo, which resulted in […]

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Roman Sushchenko, Paris correspondent for the Ukrinform news agency, is accused of spying for Ukraine.

As ceasefire violations continue across Ukraine, several key Ukrainian military positions are drawing a lot of fire.

Kazan’s Business-Gazeta has published the prediction by Artyom Dragunov that Vladimir Putin plans to do away with the office of Russian president and create instead a State Council he would head.

On the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s decision to introduce Russian forces into the Syrian civil war on the side of Baghdad dictator Bashar al-Assad, commentators in Russia and Ukraine are pointing to ways in which this conflict recalls Moscow’s earlier interventions in Chechnya and before that in Afghanistan.

Ukraine Day 957: LIVE UPDATES BELOW. 2 Ukrainian soldiers were wounded today and there were unconfirmed reports that 3 Russia-backed militants were killed. Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. READ OUR SPECIAL REPORT: An Invasion By Any Other Name: The Kremlin’s Dirty War in Ukraine   2 Ukrainian Soldiers Wounded; […]