Kremlin propaganda has reached a new low, claiming William Browder, the CEO of Hermitage Capital who has spent years campaigning for justice in the murder of his tax specialist Sergei Magnitsky, was somehow complicit in his murder.
ON MY MIND We’ve all spent a lot of time over the past day pouring over and interpreting Vladimir Putin’s words. The usual inflammatory anti-Western rhetoric was absent from his annual call-in program! He said Barack Obama was “a decent man”! He referred to the United States as a “partner”! He even indicated that he […]
Ukraine reports 104 attacks yesterday, the highest number of attacks reported in one day since August 27th last year.
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Sergey Lavrov likes to think of himself as a man of ideas, whose contribution to shaping his country’s foreign policy comes from the ability to place it in a long historical context. That said, Lavrov cares little for history properly understood.
A search is underway in the offices of Oneksim, owned by oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov, in a move to force him to sell the media company RBC (Russian Business Consulting)
ON MY MIND Well, spring must finally be here! Vladimir Putin will answer the spontaneous questions of carefully vetted ordinary Russian citizens on live television today. In addition to being a traditional rite of spring, Putin’s marathon call-in program is — along with his state-of-the-nation speech and his end-of-year press conference — one of the […]
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada has voted to dismiss Arseniy Yatsenyuk and replace him with Volodymyr Groysman as prime minister.
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Germany’s Bild has published excerpts from a new book by Boris Reitschuster titled Putin’s Secret War that suggests that Moscow is organizing special military units inside Germany and other Western countries that the Kremlin could use to destabilize these states
