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 One of the questions I’ve been grappling with recently is whether or not Vladimir Putin is truly an ideologue. Does he really believe in his “great Russia” project? Or is this smoke and mirrors to mask the cynical machinations of a kleptocratic regime? In a recent lecture at Brown University’s Watson Institute […]
Stanislav Krasnov, an activist with the Azov Civilian Corps who is accused of spying for Russia’s FSB, has ended a hunger strike after 28 days.
To save money, the Russian finance ministry has proposed to raise the retirement age to 65, end pension payments to those who are still working, and otherwise reduce the amount Moscow has to pay out. Many are horrified.
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 The license to steal has long been a prerogative of the Russian elite. The license to plunder an economy where the rule of law is a fiction and might makes right — and then stash the loot in the West where it is protected by a law-based system — has been an […]
After a lull in fighting between Easter and Victory Day, the Ukrainian military today reports an increasing number of attacks by Russian-backed fighters.
President Vladimir Putin has removed from Russia’s Security Council Viktor Ivanov, the former head of the Federal Narcotics Control Service, a close associate from his days in the KGB, and may tap him as deputy interior ministry.
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 how the Kremlin uses the memory of World War II with Pavel Butorin, managing editor of RFE/RL’s Russian-language television program Current Time.
