LIVE UPDATES: Sky News broadcast their investigation of Russian mercenaries in Syria, and Russia’s NTV claimed actors were used. 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: – The Kremlin […]
LIVE UPDATES: President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met today in St. Petersburg, the first time since the Turkish downing of the Russian fighter jet near the Syrian border. 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 […]
The Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) has overturned the IOC’s ban on Russian athletes allowing rowers and a swimmer to compete.
The Russian Defense Ministry has sent a crew with the latest system for aerosol disinfection of the area in Yamal where people and animals are stricken with deadly Siberian anthrax.
Rosneft threatens Novaya Gazeta with a lawsuit over its expose of the luxury yacht owned by the wife of Rosneft head Igor Sechin. Blogger Anton Nossik is in court for “extremism.”
Twenty-five masked, armed men have reportedly seized a clinic in Buryatia, but their demands are not known and no more information has been supplied by local officials.
ISIS has released a new video calling for jihad in Russia.
Aleksandr Yefremov, former head of the Party of Regions faction, was arrested today July 30 at Borispyl as he was boarding a plane to Austria and accused of by the Prosecutor General’s Office of aiding the self-proclaimed “Lugansk People’s Republic” (LNR
The Russian Ministry of Finance is proposing to slash support of small and medium business nearly in half.
President Vladimir Putin has made a number of personnel shuffles, removing the governor of Russian-occupied Sevastopol and putting a KGB general in charge of Kaliningrad Region bordering Baltics.
