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 For Vladimir Putin, next week’s G20 summit in China will be a sequel to last year’s UN General Assembly in New York. He’ll get another chance to make his pitch to Western leaders to see things his way — and let him have his way. In September 2015, Putin used his speech […]
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.
From recently released telephone intercepts, we learned the extent to which Russia orchestrated the social unrest that preceded the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine
ON MY MIND The anniversaries have been coming fast and furious in recent weeks. There’s been the failed Soviet coup on August 19-21, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia on August 20, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact on August 23, and Ukrainian independence (featured in today’s Daily Vertical) today. And a pretty important one is coming tomorrow, although […]
25 years ago today, Ukraine became independent from the Soviet Union
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 The Kremlin’s unexpected decision to postpone the privatization of Bashneft led to a sharp decline in the oil company’s share prices. It also is an indication of the declining political capital of one of Vladimir Putin’s longtime cronies, Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin. Long one of the Kremlin’s wiliest and most powerful insiders, […]
