ON MY MIND If the Kremlin is really planning to establish a new Ministry of State Security, one big question looms: Who is going to head it? Whom will Vladimir Putin trust to lead such a powerful new structure that is essentially a recreation of the old Soviet KGB? In fact, it could be even stronger […]
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 Somehow, I don’t think it is an accident that the day after United Russia won a record number of seats in the State Duma, amid a record low turnout, media reports surfaced that the Kremlin is planning to create a new super ministry called the Ministry of State Security — or MGB. […]
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.
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 Vladimir Putin is not only bringing in a new generation of officials. As Leonid Bershidsky notes in a piece featured below, he’s bringing in a new generation of ideologues. There’s new Kremlin chief of staff Anton Vaino, with his odd futurological theories; there’s the openly Stalinist new education minister Olga Vasilyeva; and […]
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 upcoming State Duma elections will kick off the new political season in Russia that will culminate with the 2018 presidential election. But while Vladimir Putin has been busy ditching old cronies and bringing fresh blood into the Kremlin administration, it appears that the new State Duma will feature the same old parties […]
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 Seventeen years ago this week, the course of Russian history changed. From September 4-16, a series of apartment bombings in Moscow, Buynaksk, and Volgodonsk terrified the nation, shocked the world, sparked the second Chechen war, and catapulted Vladimir Putin into the Kremlin. On this week’s Power Vertical Podcast, we take a look […]
