Archives: June 2016

Just two days ahead of the Brexit vote, Russia’s state-owned Channel One news outlet spreads conspiracy theories about the murder of British MP Jo Cox.

Amazon Cloud Service, which hosts a large number of sites in Russia, has been blocked by Roskomnadzor, the state censor.

The terrorist group produced photos purportedly taken from the dead soldiers’ phones.

June 22, 1941 – the Day Hitler and Stalin Ceased to Be Allies 2016-06-23 19:27:06 Staunton, VA, June 22, 2016 – Seventy-five years ago, Adolf Hitler attacked the USSR, thus ending a period of almost two years when he and Joseph Stalin were formally allies as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and a much […]

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 Russian state media will no doubt make a big deal out of Vladimir Putin’s visit to China later this week. But in reality, Moscow’s pivot to Beijing as an alternative to the West, a move announced amid much fanfare in 2014, has turned out to be much less than advertised. Last year, […]

But President Poroshenko says that Russian troops must withdraw before constitutional amendments are made.

In 1983, Yury Andropov famously told the Communist Party Plenum that “if we speak openly, we still do not know sufficiently the society in which we live and work.” The same thing could be said of Vladimir Putin.

Fontanka reports attacks on journalists who found links between owner of the “Kremlin troll factory” and Wagner private military firm.

Putin said Russia’s intervention in Syria was about combating terrorism. The facts say otherwise