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 Are the Kremlin’s repressive policies and aggressive international posture just the latest expression of traditional Russian autocracy, imperialism, and expansionism? Or are they, as Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes suggest in a provocative and thought-provoking essay featured below, a new form of “aggressive isolationism” that is part of a worldwide struggle against […]
Supporters of the Azov civilian corps and National Guard Regiment, whose leadership originates in the far-right of Ukrainian politics, have been marching in Kiev this morning in protest against the holding of local elections in occupied areas of the Donbass.
Over the last five years, Vladimir Putin has moved to rein in or even destroy a dozen of Russia’s formerly more independent media outlets, most recently RBC. And that prompts the question: whom will the Kremlin leader go after next?
Pro-Russian Activism of Mateusz Piskorski Detained in Poland 2016-05-19 17:43:49 May 19, 2016 – On May 18-19, 2016, the media reported that Poland’s Internal Security Agency searched the homes of the leaders of the pro-Russian party Zmiana: Tomasz Jankowski, Konrad Rękas, and Mateusz Piskorski. It was also reported in the media — and then confirmed by Zmiana — that Piskorski […]
Ukraine reports yet another bombing attack by drones yesterday, while 2 Ukrainian soldiers were killed by snipers and a civilian was blown up by a landmine.
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs of the US Congress approved the Global Magnitsky Act, amid challenges from some members citing Kremlin disinformation.
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 Today marks the 72nd anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars from their homeland in 1944. And it’s worth noting that, like with other shameful events in Soviet history, the Kremlin and its surrogates are treating it’s memory with stunning callousness. The state-run Rossia-1 television station’s commentary during the Ukrainian singer […]
10 Ukrainian servicemen were wounded yesterday. Ukraine reports heavy shelling both north and South of Donetsk.
