Ukraine Day 957: LIVE UPDATES BELOW. 2 Ukrainian soldiers were wounded today and there were unconfirmed reports that 3 Russia-backed militants were killed. Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. READ OUR SPECIAL REPORT: An Invasion By Any Other Name: The Kremlin’s Dirty War in Ukraine 2 Ukrainian Soldiers Wounded; […]
A 25-year-old Ukrainian soldier was killed today in the Avdeyevka industrial zone by a Russia-backed sniper.
LIVE UPDATES: The Dutch Foreign Ministry summoned Russia’s ambassador in The Hague for a diplomatic rebuke after Moscow made remarks critical of the Netherland’s investigation into the MH17 shoot-down by Russia-backed separatists Welcome to our column, Russia Update, where we will be closely following day-to-day developments in Russia, including the Russian government’s foreign and domestic […]
LIVE UPDATES: Protesters first spilled paint on photographs of the Ukraine war shown at the Sakharov Center in Moscow, then Cossacks brought a jar with “the blood of the children of Donbass” to disrupt the exhibit. The photos showed Ukrainian soldiers killed by Russia-backed forces and the defense of the Donetsk Airport. Police closed the […]
Novaya Gazeta has obtained a document indicating that Aleksandr Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee, has submitted his resignation.
TV Rain, the last independent TV station in Russia, has found that businessman Pyotr Kolbin a former co-owner of the Gunvor, was a childhood friend of President Vladimir Putin.
Natalya Kasperskaya, a prominent Russian IT entrepreneur and president of the InfoWatch group of companies said at a business conference today that the government “really was talking about decrypting and analyzing all Internet traffic of Russian citizens” and this was a good thing. Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Fund exposed her own business interest in selling DPI (deep packet inspection) software to the government.
One Ukrainian soldier was killed and 6 wounded today in battle. The former premier of the self-declared “Lugansk People’s Republic” was reported to have committed suicide in custody.
President Vladimir Putin has made two major personnel shuffles and urged the “optimization” of the number of parties in Russia, indicating further consolidation over an already-docile parliament and intelligence service and preparation for his installation as president in 2018.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Russia was living ‘in a parallel universe’ as diplomatic niceties were dropped clash with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov over Syria policy at the UN.
