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News has been published today November 3 about a police shootout that ended with the death of two suspected Islamist militants in Russia’s North Caucasus. Welcome to our column, Russia Update, where we will be closely following day-to-day developments in Russia, including the Russian government’s foreign and domestic policies. The previous issue is here. Recent […]
Staunton, November 3 – In the final decades of the Soviet Union, many in the non-Russian union republics began to ask why some of them were headed by members of their titular nationalities and others by Russians and increasingly demanded that members of the titular nation occupy key posts. Over time, Moscow backed down, first […]
Despite Russia’s new statements about its support for Syrian President Bashar al Assad, the Kremlin has a long history of standing behind Assad while saying they are open to change. The previous post in our Putin in Syria column can be found here. Is Russia Really Coordinating With Syrian Rebel Groups While Holding ‘Joint Exercises’ […]
Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. An archive of our liveblogs can be found here. For an overview and analysis of this developing story see our latest podcast. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. For links to individual […]
Staunton, November 2 – Because of Russian actions, more than 1.5 million Ukrainians have fled the Donbass and Crimea either to other parts of Ukraine thus becoming internally displaced persons, and more than 1 million have fled to Russia and other countries, a number that is “much larger than” the refugee flow into Europe from […]
Russia claims not only are they not bombing hospitals in Syria, but that the hospitals they are accused of bombing simply do not exist. The previous post in our Putin in Syria column can be found here. Despite Russia’s Claims, Their Airstrikes Are Hitting Hospitals 2015-11-02 18:39:48 Since the start of Russia’s airstrikes in Syria […]
Staunton, November 2 – Yevgeny Messner (1891-1974), last chief of staff of the Kornilov Division of Baron Wrangel’s White Russian Army and later a member of the Russian Liberation Army during World War II, wrote the book that forms the basis for what is now known as Vladimir Putin’s “hybrid war” strategy. That book, Mutiny […]
Staunton, November 2 – The Russian government may succeed in keeping secret figures about the casualties from its various wars, but it is powerless to conceal the staggering indirect losses from those conflicts, including among other things an increasing number of single-parent families and orphans, according to Marat Syrtlanov, a retired Russian colonel. “To speak […]
Officials of Metrojet, the airliner leasing the Russian plane which crashed in Egypt on October 31, says the plane could have been brought down by “external influences,” but an investigator told Reuters that there is no evidence of outside impact on the Airbus 32. Welcome to our column, Russia Update, where we will be closely […]
