The EU Commission has proposed the immediate introduction of a visa-free regime for Ukrainian citizens, but has also made key reforms with 100 days a condition for €600 million of financial support.
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 You have to wonder what drives people like Aleksei Kudrin and Ella Pamfilova. Both were in the news this week. Kudrin accepted an offer to chair the Kremlin’s top economics think tank, the Center for Strategic Reform, and called for a fundamental restructuring of Russia’s economy and political system. And Pamfilova, who […]
US officials have told the Wall Street Journal that Russian artillery units have been deployed near Aleppo as the ‘cessation of hostilities’ that came into partial effect in February collapses with major civilian casualties due to regime air strikes.
The National Anti-Terrorist Committee, a coordinating body of Russia’s law-enforcement and government chaired by the Federal Security Service (FSB) director Aleksandr Bortnikov, has created a working group to discuss regulation of encrypted Internet traffic, according to Aleksandr Zharov, head of Roskomnadzor, the state censor.
ON MY MIND If you believe Investigative Committee chief Aleksandr Bastrykin, Russia must be a really, really weak country. How else can you explain a country that is so fragile that the mere presence of foreign media on the Internet can cause it to collapse? If you believe Bastrykin, Russia’s security services and law enforcement […]
The level of fighting has fallen for the second day in a row (which may be nothing more than part of a regular cycle), but Ukraine still suffered heavy military casualties yesterday.
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.
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.
From fly-bys and barrel rolls to an unprecedented level of submarine activity, Russian military aggression has escalated sharply in recent weeks. So has the Kremlin’s rhetoric
