Archives: May 2016

Ultranationalist Aleksandr Dugin has been denied entry to Greece, where he has ties to the SYRIZA Party, due to a EU ban against him.

Three developments over the last few days – a clash in Dagestan that ISIS has taken responsibility for, Russian interest in an alliance with the Afghan Taliban, and Patriarch Kirill’s statement that Orthodox Christians and Muslims must stand together against the Christian West — raise some disturbing questions

Russia and Assad fight to take Syria’s largest natural gas fields; tensions mount between Syrian rebels and Kurdish forces.

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 It was back to the 1990s this past weekend as a massive brawl and shoot-out erupted at Moscow’s Khovanskoye Cemetery. The motivations for the fight, which left three dead, are not entirely clear yet. Police say it was partially motivated by different groups fighting over control of the lucrative burial business. Some […]

Ukrainian and Russian-backed separatist officials have traded accusations of attacks, with 5 Ukrainian soldiers wounded and the DNR claiming that a farm was shelled last night.

Cossack paramilitaries have attacked Alexey Navalny and members of his Anti-Corruption Fund at Anapa Airport, hospitalising one member.

LIVE UPDATES: Three people were killed and 26 injured in a mass brawl in Moscow at a cemetery in a “turf war” over which groups of workers could control jobs at the site. Welcome to our column, Russia Update, where we will be closely following day-to-day developments in Russia, including the Russian government’s foreign and […]

A lawyer was shot dead by unknown persons in Odessa, local news and social media reported.

Staunton, VA, May 16, 2016 – For obvious reasons, polls of Russian attitudes are anything but a good indicator of where Russians are heading; but there is a more reliable bellwether: the way that the Kremlin uses its pocket opposition figures such as Vladimir Zhirinovsky of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) as elections […]