By putting Russian missiles in Kaliningrad and conducting joint exercises with Belarusian forces, Vladimir Putin is creating a new “Cuban missile crisis,” one that threatens Europe and the world and that the Kremlin leader won’t end unless the West takes action to force him to back down, says Andrei Sannikov, leader of the opposition European Belarus campaign.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a list of demands to the West as he pulled out of the plutonium agreement, and it’s surprising he hasn’t asked for Alaska back, says a Moscow commentator.
Kadyrov’s Time has ‘Really Passed,’ Moscow Paper Says 2016-10-04 20:50:24 Staunton, VA, October 4, 2016 – The report by Novaya gazeta that Ramzan Kadyrov barely escaped an assassination attempt some months ago is attracting a great deal of attention, but the paper’s argument as to why it has concluded after a length study that the Chechen […]
Kazan’s Business-Gazeta has published the prediction by Artyom Dragunov that Vladimir Putin plans to do away with the office of Russian president and create instead a State Council he would head.
On the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s decision to introduce Russian forces into the Syrian civil war on the side of Baghdad dictator Bashar al-Assad, commentators in Russia and Ukraine are pointing to ways in which this conflict recalls Moscow’s earlier interventions in Chechnya and before that in Afghanistan.
This week, there have been widespread reports that the Russian elite is preparing itself for Putin’s departure; and others are talking openly about the likelihood of a new Russian revolution by the time of the anniversary of the Bolshevik one in 1917.
Nearly a third of the Russian population is under 25, and many support President Vladimir Putin.
A Pussy Riot-style scandal has broken out in Tatarstan after a young woman danced in front of a mosque there in what many thought were excessively revealing clothes.
A Russian blogger says President Vladimir Putin has plans for a “global” transformation of the Russian political landscape that will leave Russia without a president but have Putin become head of a State Council.
Five More Bellwether Duma Election Stories 2016-09-21 16:40:57 Staunton, VA, September 21, 2016 – Since the polls closed on Sunday, the Russian media have been filled with commentaries focusing on United Russia’s victory, the loss of the opposition, irregularities in the voting and the failure of a 2011-type response to emerge, and the possibility that Vladimir […]
