LIVE UPDATES: 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 policies. The previous issue is here. Recent Analysis and Translations: – What Has Ramzan Kadyrov Been Up To? Quietly Cultivating Regional and Kremlin Officials, Now He Meets with Putin – […]
While reporting on memorial services in Beslan, Elena Kostyuchenko suffered an attack from a young man in a t-shirt with the word “Anti-Terror” who poured zelyonka on her, an indelible disinfectant often used by thugs in Russia and Ukraine to humiliate liberal opposition and journalists.
The Ministry of Justice is making a surprise inspection of International Memorial Society for “foreign agent” status.
A series of arrests and searches in Russia related to yet another oligarch in Russia has analysts wondering if President Vladimir Putin is “sweeping out” the “oligarchs’ club” before elections in less than two weeks.
Ukraine Day 929: LIVE UPDATES BELOW. 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 While Ceasefire Largely Holds, Russian-Backed Forces Still Fire on Ukrainian Positions; No Casualties 2016-09-04 04:23:51 Since the declaration of a ceasefire […]
A prominent Chechen writer and former official has disappeared, joining a long list of others who have gone missing, only some of whom have returned to recant on TV.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed possible cooperation on Syria in a telephone call. Mothers of children killed by terrorists and journalists detained at memorial ceremony in Beslan.
Russia’s ambassador to the UN claims information about chemical weapons in Syria was fabricated; Russia also said cooperation with the US in Syria on air strikes will not include Aleppo.
Fighting in southeastern Ukraine has intensified, with the use of Grad missiles by Russian-backed militants recorded,
Three of the four leaders of the “Normandy Quartet” — French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin — will not have a trilateral meeting in Beijing, but only bilateral meetings, the Kremlin announced.
