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 Apparently taking one Savchenko hostage wasn’t enough for Russia. They had to grab two. Just hours after the formal procedure to turn kidnapped Ukrainian military pilot Nadia Savchenko over to the Kyiv authorities was reported to have begun, Russia tried to nab her sister, Vira. Russian border guards seized the passport of […]
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 I don’t imagine there is much chance that the Kremlin will abide by the European Court of Human Rights’ ruling this week that Russia pay compensation to five opposition protesters jailed between 2006 and 2012. And State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin has already said that observers from the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary […]
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’s nice to see that despite what appears to be a campaign of pressure from the Kremlin, the journalists at RBK aren’t easing up a bit. Yesterday they published an investigative piece about the meteoric rise of businessman Dmitry Mazurov in Russia’s oil business. A rise that got a big assist, according […]
One of the last independent media voices comes under pressure. And Russia gets a new human rights commissioner with a rather creative view on human rights. On this week’s Power Vertical Briefing, we look at the apparent assault on RBK, one of the last independent media outlets in Russia, owned by billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov. Also […]
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 media landscape is probably about to get a lot more barren. If the Kremlin manages to wrestle RBK from Mikhail Prokhorov — and let’s face it, is there anything that can stop it? — then Russia will lose one of its last solid, independent media outlets. We’ve seen this movie before. […]
ON MY MIND How bad does Russia want a Cold War? Pretty bad, apparently. Up until now, the Kremlin had presented its conflict with the West as a great power struggle. But in an article in the Kremlin mouthpiece Izvestia today, foreign affairs analyst Sergei Karaganov argues that the root of the conflict is actually […]
