Archives: May 2016

Russian-backed fighters reportedly conducted 47 attacks 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.

On this week’s Power Vertical Briefing, Brian Whitmore discusses an Australian law suit over MH17 and Russian state media manipulation of French interviewees’ comments with Pavel Butorin, the managing editor of RFE/RL’s Russian-language television program Current Time.

ON MY MIND There are lies. There are damn lies. And then there is Russia television. Le Petit Journal, a satirical French current affairs program hosted by Yann Barthes, has picked apart a May 15 report on Russian state television about the fears Paris residents allegedly have of migrants. Le Petit Journal re-interviewed each person […]

NATO invited Montenegro to become its 29th member, a chance to examine NATO-Russian relations and to debunk Russia’s claims about NATO.

Ukraine reports 31 attacks by Russian-backed fighters yesterday, inflicting heavy casualties.

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Heavy fighting reported near Donetsk and elsewhere across the front.

A total of 6 Ukrainian soldiers have been wounded in the last 24 hours.

Negligence by the management of Domodedovo Airport enabled the 2011 terrorist attack on the airport, said Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the Investigative Committee. While a settlement has been reached between management of Domodedovo and the victims, the owner of the airport, Dmitry Kamenshchik, remains under house arrest.