Germany’s Bild has published excerpts from a new book by Boris Reitschuster titled Putin’s Secret War that suggests that Moscow is organizing special military units inside Germany and other Western countries that the Kremlin could use to destabilize these states
Not only high profile political crimes remain unresolved; at least half of all crimes are not solved, experts say, because law-enforcers have stopped opening criminal cases or publishing statistics.
Having already torn up the social contract between the regime and the population, Putin is now about to destroy the contract between the Kremlin and big business that has existed since 2001, according to Kirill Martynov.
A Baker’s Dozen of Neglected Russian Stories – No. 26 2016-04-08 23:19:55 Staunton, VA, April 8, 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 […]
Neo-Pagan and Orthodox Militants ‘Dividing Up’ Russian Capital 2016-04-06 18:22:10 Staunton, VA, April 6, 2016 – The Russian Orthodox Church’s promotion of patriotic youth groups has met its match in analogous groups that have been organized by neo-pagan organizations. Both groups are militarized and armed, and increasingly, Vladislav Maltsev says, these “’warriors of God’ are dividing up […]
Vladimir Putin is the only beneficiary of the renewed fighting in Karabakh, Andrey Piontkovsky says; and to the extent that is so, Azerbaijan, Armenia and especially Georgia are likely to be the greatest victims of this policy.
Is Moscow about to Recreate a Nationalities Ministry? 2016-03-29 23:06:46 Staunton, VA, March 25, 2016 – Duma members said last week that they would like to transform the Federal Agency for Nationality Affairs into a ministry for nationality affairs “with corresponding financing, staffing and authority.” And Igor Barinov, the agency’s head, acknowledged that he was “not against” […]
Moscow Expanding Its Cyber War Against Ukraine 2016-03-25 01:44:32 Staunton, VA, March 24, 2016 – Increasing cyber-attacks against strategic targets in Ukraine are part of Russia’s hybrid war against that country, its security services warn; and Kyiv is having to play catch-up because currently it lacks much of the legal framework and technology for defending against them. […]
Moscow Losing Ideological War Against Islamists, Russian Experts Say 2016-03-23 19:53:33 Staunton, VA, March 23, 2016 – Moscow has been relatively successful in fighting Islamist radicalism by the use of force, but it has been much less so in the ideological sphere, often committing mistakes that give its opponents an opening which they have eagerly […]
40 Percent More Protests Took Place in Russia in 2015 than the Year Before But Few Received Much Attention in Moscow 2016-03-22 19:23:29 Staunton, VA, March 22, 2016 – In 2015, there were 409 protest actions in the Russian Federation, 40 percent more than a year earlier. But few of them received much attention in the central […]
