Update:
The previous issue is here.
Recent Analysis and Translations:
Novaya Gazeta on Threats of Retribution Against Journalists from Chechen Clergy over Articles on Persecution of LGBT
The Grief Factory: How Regime Supporters Are Choreographed to Mourn on Demand
Novaya Gazeta Reports Point-Blank Execution of Chechen ‘Attackers’ at Odds with Official Account of ‘Clash’ with National Guards
‘Hybrid Cyberwars’: Are the Russian Hackers’ Arrests About American or Internal Russian issues?
UPDATES BELOW
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The ruble is trading at 57.10 to the dollar and 62.40 to the euro. Brent crude is selling for $50.89.
The following new stories are from Novaya Gazeta, Gazeta, Grani, Media Zone, Reuters, Fox, RosBalt, CNN, New York Times, Global Voices, The Hill, Newsweek, RT, OSW, and Navalny.
Translation: A case is opened under Art. 354-1, par. 3 of the Russian Criminal Code. The Solovyovs and the Kiselyovs [talk show hosts] disseminated this image all over the country, but we have the search and the criminal case.
The charges stem from an ad on the Volgograd Navalny campaign group on VKontakte that invited people to a meeting with the candidate using an image of the famous Motherland statute there painted as Navalny and other opposition figures have been with indelible green disinfectant by attackers.
What We’re Reading
Panetta: Comey Firing Undermines Investigation Credibility
Trump Keeps Acting Like He Has Something to Hide by Max Boot [English]
— Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
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