Archives: April 2016

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Following the resignation of the prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian politicians are negotiating the shape of a new government, almost certainly to be headed by Rada Speaker Volodymyr Groysman.

A prime minister resigns in Ukraine. The Panama Papers continue to reverberate in Russia. And the Crimean Tatars hold a congress — in Lithuania. This week’s Power Vertical briefing

ON MY MIND In many ways, corruption is the new communism. The Soviet Union sought to spread communism and establish a bloc of nations loyal to Moscow. Vladimir Putin’s Russia seeks to spread its corrupt business model to establish a bloc of nations dependent upon Moscow. The Soviet Union tried to co-opt Westerners with the […]

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk submitted his resignation today, he reported on a TV show and on his Facebook page.

Having already torn up the social contract between the regime and the population, Putin is now about to destroy the contract between the Kremlin and big business that has existed since 2001, according to Kirill Martynov.

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) issued a spot report today noting that their mission was fired upon while they were patrolling in Zhovanka, the Ukrainian-controlled part of Zaytsevo (Zaitseve).

A Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories – No. 26 2016-04-08 23:19:55 Staunton, VA, April 8, 2016 – The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to […]

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.

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov cited Putin’s claims during that speech that US officials privately apologized to Putin for the forthcoming Panama allegations although no such statement has been made by the US.