Ukraine Day 776: With Prosecutor General Out Of The Way, Has Poroshenko Turned A Corner On Corruption?

April 3, 2016

LIVE UPDATES BELOW. 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   Poroshenko Officially Signs Document Removing Prosecutor General Shokin 2016-04-04 03:05:44 The saga of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin may finally be at an end. TASS […]

Day 775: Heavy Fighting Continues; 4 Ukrainian Soldiers Injured; Russian Separatist Commander ‘Batka’ Killed

April 2, 2016

LIVE UPDATES BELOW. 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   Poroshenko Cites Three Conditions for Elections to Take Place in Donbass 2016-04-03 02:18:00 President Petro Poroshenko has cited three conditions for elections in the […]

Russian Journalist Dmitry Tsilikin Found Stabbed to Death in St. Petersburg

April 1, 2016

LIVE UPDATES: Dmitry Tsilikin, 54, a music and art critic and journalist for a number of independent publications was found stabbed to death in his apartment in St. Petersburg. 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 […]

Day 774: Kiev Reports 77 Attacks Yesterday, With 1 Soldier Killed, 8 Wounded, And More Fighting Today

LIVE UPDATES BELOW. 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   Kiev Reports 77 Attacks Yesterday, With 1 Soldier Killed, 8 Wounded, And More Fighting Today 2016-04-01 12:39:31 The Ukrainian military claimed this morning that […]

The Morning Vertical, April 1, 2016

ON MY MIND So another report has come out about corruption in Vladimir Putin’s inner circle. Truth told, they’re all beginning to blur into each other. It’s almost become a ritual. The “shocking” report. The attention-grabbing headlines. (The Property Manager And Putin’s Friends.) The Kremlin’s denunciation of an information war by the West. And then? […]