Valentina Matvienko on June 3 gave the clearest sign yet that the Kremlin plans to expand its efforts to mobilize Russians and Russian-speakers in the former Soviet republics and Baltic states.
A Russian prosecutor has asked that Pyotr Pavlensky, an activist artist who set fire to the doors of the Federal Security Service (FSB) on Lubyanka Square last year be given only a 1.5 million fine ($22,942) and not jail time.
Grégoire Moutaux is suspected of far-right links and was arrested in Ukraine.
Ukrainian Armed Forces documented shelling by Russian-backed militants of civilian areas in Nikolayevka.
Increasingly, there is a rise in “hybrid” repression: the use of anonymous people goaded by the Russian regime and its allies to attack Putin critics using force.
Motorola, the nom de guerre of Arseny Pavlov, the Russian commander of the Russian-backed Sparta Battalion, has been wounded
A Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories – No. 34 2016-06-03 18:37:17 Staunton, VA, June 3, 2016 – The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to […]
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ON MY MIND For all of Russia’s bluster about the United States and NATO, Moscow’s real problem is actually with Europe and the European Union. It is the EU that presents a model of governance close to Russia’s borders that directly challenges the kleptocracy in the Kremlin. It is the EU that creates a magnetic […]
