Most commentators have dismissed as overblown suggestions that Moscow is preparing to occupy Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania because they are members of NATO and the EU and because such a Russian action would lead to a major military conflict between Moscow and the West.
Ten New Studies on Russian Realities Not to Be Missed 2016-05-13 01:51:10 Staunton, VA – May 12, 2016 – Last month, at the 14th annual conference of Moscow Higher School of Economics, more than 900 scholarly papers were presented on various aspects of social, economic and political life. Journalist Boris Grozovsky selected and summarized 24 of […]
In recent weeks, public figures from both the Russian opposition as well as the Russia state and pro-Kremlin media have been attacked by hackers who spilled their private communications out to social media or paralyzed their sites. Who are the hackers and how are they able to gain access?
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ON MY MIND Russia’s Justice Ministry has gone all Kafka on us. Or more accurately, it has gone more Kafka. The Justice Ministry proposed this week to amend Russia’s notorious law requiring NGOs that receive foreign funding and engage in political activity to register as “foreign agents.” Now the Justice Ministry wants to include criticism […]
The Rada has passed a bill allowing President Poroshenko’s ally Yuriy Lutsenko to be nominated for the post of Prosecutor General despite lacking a law degree. In addition, Ihor Kononenko, against whom there are widespread accusations of corruption, has been reinstated as the deputy chairman of Poroshenko’s political party.
A Russian soldier has been killed near Homs; ISIS launches offensive west of Palmyra
Turning on those reporters who have covered the war in the Donbass first-hand right now is hardly going to help this situation.
LifeNews reports that a Russian woman has been executed by ISIS on charges of spying for Russia.
