The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine reports that impact craters at the scene of an incident yesterday morning in which four civilians were killed were the result of shelling from the direction of Ukrainian-held territory.
Russia launched a missile from the Vostochny space center finally after several days of technical problems and the personal intervention of President Vladimir Putin who visited the site.
General Sergey Afanasyev, deputy chief of the GRU, the Russian military’s intelligence service, says that approximately 4,500 people in Central Asia have sworn allegiance to the Islamic State.
Moscow law-enforcers inspected all 9 train stations this afternoon and evacuated the Kursk Station after anonymous bomb threats were made by telephone.
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ON MY MIND I don’t imagine there is much chance that the Kremlin will abide by the European Court of Human Rights’ ruling this week that Russia pay compensation to five opposition protesters jailed between 2006 and 2012. And State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin has already said that observers from the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary […]
The Russian liberal opposition Democratic Coalition fell apart yesterday as anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny and Vladimir Milov, former deputy energy ministe broke ranks with former finance minister Mikhail Kasyanov and his colleagues in Parnas. Behind their differences, however was the relentless pressure, organizing restrictions and privacy-busting of Putin’s intelligence service – factors that won’t go away even if people paper over differences.
Odessa Region Governor Mikheil Saakashvili announced that President Petro Poroshenko had authorized sending 1,000 additional National Guard troops and police to Odessa to help prevent violence there.
The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. Viewers can suggest topics via Twitter @PowerVertical or on the Power Vertical Facebook page. A transcript of today’s Daily Vertical can be found here.
ON MY MIND It’s nice to see that despite what appears to be a campaign of pressure from the Kremlin, the journalists at RBK aren’t easing up a bit. Yesterday they published an investigative piece about the meteoric rise of businessman Dmitry Mazurov in Russia’s oil business. A rise that got a big assist, according […]
