Russia Update

ISIS has released a new video calling for jihad in Russia.

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.

It’s now clear, Donald Trump would pursue policies that are very favorable to the Russian President, and very unfavorable toward key US allies in Eastern Europe.

When Russian hackers were reported to have broken into the computers of the Democratic National Committee on June 14, the Russian media — state, pro-Kremlin and independent — covered the event, but briefly, and using only Western media reports

Several hundred convicts organized a rebellion in Corrective Labor Colony No. 35 in the republic of Khakassia in southwestern Russia, reportedly demanding Muslim prayer times.

Leonid Volkov, opposition activist in Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation is accusing the Moscow Mayor’s office of now blocking an opposition rally originally approved.

Aleksandr Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee initiated the cases against seven investigators on charges of bribe-taking.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has suspended the deputy minister of sports pending the doping investigation, and President Vladimir Putin says he will dismiss officials named in WADA’s report.

The Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained in Russia a translator for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM), but released him and allowed him to return to Ukraine.