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 There are lies. There are damn lies. And then there is Russia television. Le Petit Journal, a satirical French current affairs program hosted by Yann Barthes, has picked apart a May 15 report on Russian state television about the fears Paris residents allegedly have of migrants. Le Petit Journal re-interviewed each person […]
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 Are the Kremlin’s repressive policies and aggressive international posture just the latest expression of traditional Russian autocracy, imperialism, and expansionism? Or are they, as Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes suggest in a provocative and thought-provoking essay featured below, a new form of “aggressive isolationism” that is part of a worldwide struggle against […]
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 Today marks the 72nd anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars from their homeland in 1944. And it’s worth noting that, like with other shameful events in Soviet history, the Kremlin and its surrogates are treating it’s memory with stunning callousness. The state-run Rossia-1 television station’s commentary during the Ukrainian singer […]
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 It was back to the 1990s this past weekend as a massive brawl and shoot-out erupted at Moscow’s Khovanskoye Cemetery. The motivations for the fight, which left three dead, are not entirely clear yet. Police say it was partially motivated by different groups fighting over control of the lucrative burial business. Some […]
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 Russia’s Labor Ministry’s proposal to introduce a tax on “parasitism” — that is, able-bodied people who are unemployed — is indicative of how Vladimir Putin’s regime is approaching its current budget crunch. The stated reason is that such a law — similar to one recently enacted in Belarus — would fill the […]
