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 Two winners emerging out of Vladimir Putin’s decision to dismiss Sergei Ivanov as Kremlin chief of staff appear — at least for the moment — to be National Guard chief Viktor Zolotov and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. The two are allies. Both have feuded with Ivanov in the past, both won those […]
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’s summits this week with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Hassan Rohani were the latest illustrations of how the Kremlin leader is working overtime to build alliances with the illiberal regimes of the world. This week’s Power Vertical Podcast will look at Putin’s efforts to build an Authoritarian […]
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 allegations that Ukraine sent agent-saboteurs to Crimea to carry out “terrorist” attacks and were thwarted by the FSB is a sign of the times. It’s a story without verifiable facts. Instead, there are just the allegations of Russian officials and the posts of some pro-Kremlin bloggers. And without facts, all we […]
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 When the world was focused on the Summer Olympics in Beijing back in 2008, Vladimir Putin launched a war in Georgia. And when all eyes were on the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014, Putin was planning the forceful annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula — which happened just weeks later. And given […]
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 With the Olympics underway in Moscow, it appears that Russia — to a larger degree than seemed possible just a few weeks ago — pretty much got away with doping. The Moscow Times has a good rundown (featured below) of how this came about. They dodged a blanket ban. Most of their […]
