The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. Viewers can suggest topics via Twitter @PowerVertical or on the Power Vertical Facebook page. A transcript of today’s Daily Vertical can be found here.
ON MY MIND A warning from Vadim Troyan, the first deputy head of Ukraine’s National Police, that the Kremlin has deployed a team of mobsters to destabilize Ukraine merits checking out. But it’s certainly plausible. Russia has used its nationalized mafias to carry out many of the unsavory tasks it wants taken care of without […]
The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. Viewers can suggest topics via Twitter @PowerVertical or on the Power Vertical Facebook page. A transcript of today’s Daily Vertical can be found here.
ON MY MIND For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Just days after releasing Nadia Savchenko, a Russian court in Grozny sentenced two Ukrainians, Stanislav Klykh and Mykola Karpyuk, to decades in prison on dubious charges that they killed Russian soldiers while fighting with Chechen rebels in the 1990s. After being seized, […]
ON MY MIND As I noted in today’s Daily Vertical, and as several commentators noted in pieces highlighted below, the contrasting images of Nadia Savchenko’s triumphant return to Ukraine and the deafening silence surrounding the repatriation of GRU officers Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Aleksander Aleksandrov couldn’t be sharper. In fact, they are something of a metaphor […]
RT’s Freudian slip is not the only evidence that the Russian government supports Europe’s far-right movements.
The Kremlin has finally released its most famous hostage. As a result, Ukraine might have gained something it has long lacked: a political figure with clear and unambiguous moral authority.
ON MY MIND So the Kremlin has finally released its most famous hostage. As I write this, kidnapped Ukrainian military pilot Nadia Savchenko is on a flight from Russia to Ukraine. Not much time to process all this, but here are my initial thoughts: This saga, which has dragged on for nearly two years, has […]
The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. Viewers can suggest topics via Twitter @PowerVertical or on the Power Vertical Facebook page. A transcript of today’s Daily Vertical can be found here.
ON MY MIND One has to wonder how much longer the charade of the so-called Normandy Format can continue. Vladimir Putin, Petro Poroshenko, Angela Merkel, and Francois Hollande spoke yet by telephone again this week about ways to resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine. And as far as I can see, all the call did […]
