Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. For links to individual updates click on the timestamps. For the latest summary of evidence surrounding the shooting down of flight MH17 see our separate article: […]
Staunton, November 5 – Only if he is facing the complete collapse of his regime, Garri Kasparov says, will Putin consider invading the Baltic countries because NATO has made it clear that it will defend them and Moscow is unprepared to go to war with the West. Instead, the Kremlin leader is more likely to […]
Staunton, November 6 – The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and often strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in detail but which are […]
Syrian rebels are continuing to push back regime forces in the Hama province. The previous post in our Putin in Syria column can be found here. Rebels Continue To Advance In Hama Province 2015-11-06 15:54:20 Rebel fighters have continued to make gains in the north of the Hama province following the seizure of Morek on […]
Sources close to the investigation of the crash of the Metrojet airliner in the Sinai peninsula say the black boxes have not helped to establish the reason for the flight’s sudden plunge, Kommersant reports. Welcome to our column, Russia Update, where we will be closely following day-to-day developments in Russia, including the Russian government’s foreign […]
Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. For links to individual updates click on the timestamps. For the latest summary of evidence surrounding the shooting down of flight MH17 see our separate article: […]
Staunton, November 5 – Moscow’s revised budget, one that provides for large increases in spending for the military and government structures along with reductions in investment in human capital, means that Russia could soon find itself “both without scholars and without missiles or a fleet,” according to a study by Moscow’s Higher School of Economics.” […]
Staunton, November 5 – Many commentators are speculating on whether Russia’s elite groups, now threatened by Vladimir Putin’s policies, will find a way to remove him from office and install someone more to their liking. Andrey Piontkovsky has focused particular attention on this issue. But this is only part of a larger issue, Dmitry Gudkov […]
Staunton, November 4 – There are “two Russian worlds” now, and no one should confuse them, Andrey Kolesnikov says. The Russian authorities have their “own Russian world or more precisely Russian myth,” while the Russians themselves have their very different one which is truly universal. In an essay entitled “The Russian Myth against the Russian […]
Sergei Guriev, the former dean of the Russian Economic School, a prominent Russian economist who left Russia in 2013 citing political pressure, has been named as chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (ERBD). Welcome to our column, Russia Update, where we will be closely following day-to-day developments in Russia, including the […]
