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 most remarkable thing about the prosecution of Yekaterinburg-based blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky for playing Pokemon Go in church is how unremarkable it is. The most striking thing about the fact that Sokolovsky faces five years in prison on charges of “preventing the realization of the right to freedom of conscience and religion […]
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 Even by the Kafkaesque and Orwellian standards of Russian justice, the trial of Akhtem Chiygoz, the deputy head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, stands out. As Halya Coynash of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group points out in a piece featured below, Chiygoz and five other Crimean Tatars are charged with organizing […]
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 What do a Perm-based blogger and Russia’s last independent polling agency have in common? Both are being sanctioned for telling the truth. Vladimir Luzgin, the blogger featured in yesterday’s Daily Vertical, was convicted of “rehabilitating Nazism” and “spreading false information about the activities of the Soviet Union during World War II” for […]
ON MY MIND Vladimir Putin was hoping to have a meeting at the G20 with Western leaders about Ukraine that excluded Ukraine. As I discuss with RFE/RL senior editor Steve Gutterman on The Power Vertical Briefing (featured below), Putin was hoping to decide Ukraine’s future with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande over […]
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 appears to be scrapping the governing model he has relied on for the past 16 years. He’s culling his inner circle, purging the elite, and trying to set some limits on the widespread graft that pervades the Russian system. In my latest Power Vertical blog post (featured below), I argue that, […]
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.
