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 Justice Ministry has gone all Kafka on us. Or more accurately, it has gone more Kafka. The Justice Ministry proposed this week to amend Russia’s notorious law requiring NGOs that receive foreign funding and engage in political activity to register as “foreign agents.” Now the Justice Ministry wants to include criticism […]
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 of the questions I’ve been grappling with recently is whether or not Vladimir Putin is truly an ideologue. Does he really believe in his “great Russia” project? Or is this smoke and mirrors to mask the cynical machinations of a kleptocratic regime? In a recent lecture at Brown University’s Watson Institute […]
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 The license to steal has long been a prerogative of the Russian elite. The license to plunder an economy where the rule of law is a fiction and might makes right — and then stash the loot in the West where it is protected by a law-based system — has been an […]
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.
IN THE NEWS Russia is marking the 71st anniversary of the end of World War II with a Victory Day parade on Red Square. The personal file of Marshal Georgy Zhukov has been declassified. A Russian opposition activist in Voronezh has been forcibly sent to a psychiatric clinic. A whistle-blower has alleged additional doping by Russian […]
ON MY MIND Given the news that convictions for extremism have increased threefold over the past five years, you can only reach two conclusions: Either Russians have become a nation of rabid extremists or the Kremlin is becoming more zealous in prosecuting citizens under its notoriously flexible anti-extremism laws. I’m going to go out on a […]
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.
