Russian media have expressed unhappiness with the fact that Ukraine won the EuroVision song contest with Jamala, a Crimean Tatar singer who sang about her people’s deportation under Stalin in 1944.
On this week’s Power Vertical Briefing, Brian Whitmore discusses the Kremlin’s move towards cruder authoritarianism with senior RFE/RL editor Steve Gutterman.
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 Strategy and Tactics Give Moscow ‘the Edge’ over NATO, Moscow Analyst Says 2016-05-15 23:56:48 Staunton, VA, May 13, 2016 – The Russian way of war is very different from the American way, Yevgeny Krutikov says. In the past, the weaknesses of one side were balanced by those of the other. But now, as even some […]
Ukraine Day 818: LIVE UPDATES BELOW. Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. READ OUR SPECIAL REPORT: An Invasion By Any Other Name: The Kremlin’s Dirty War in Ukraine Ceasefire Violations In Ukraine Continue, But In Lower Numbers 2016-05-16 03:50:02 So far, the month of May is bucking the trend […]
For the third time this year, ISIS has declared responsibility for an attack in Dagestan, Caucasian Knot, a regional news service reported. Police pursuing the murderers of the father of the former mayor of Derbent were attacked by a grenade, then shot 4 militants dead; 2 police were killed and 17 wounded in the operation.
Although fighting was less than in recent weeks today, violence in Donetsk and the presence of mines meant more casualties.
ON MY MIND Russia’s Labor Ministry’s proposal to introduce a tax on “parasitism” — that is, able-bodied people who are unemployed — is indicative of how Vladimir Putin’s regime is approaching its current budget crunch. The stated reason is that such a law — similar to one recently enacted in Belarus — would fill the […]
After making a video appeal, condemning the Chechen authorities for misappropriating funds and failing to rebuild his war-torn village, Ramazan Dzhalaldinov was forced to flee the republic and his home has now been torched.
