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 Before being hauled off to jail after being sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison, former Yaroslavl Mayor Yevgeny Urlashov was defiant. “This is a political set-up,” he shouted, according to The Moscow Times (see story featured below). “All revolutionaries were sent to jail, it always has been like this.” An anticorruption […]
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 A lot of ink has been spilled on Russia’s information war tactics over the past couple years since Peter Pomerantsev and Michael Weiss got the ball rolling back in 2014 with their landmark report, The Menace Of Unreality. So one could be forgiven for wondering whether yet another report on the subject […]
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 So Aleksei Navalny won’t be going to prison, at least for now. A court in Moscow declined a request from the Federal Penitentiary Service to change Navalny’s suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher fraud case — a case widely believed to be politically motivated — to a real prison term. But one […]
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 July has been the deadliest month in the conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas region in nearly a year. But what is driving the escalation? Is it a sign that Moscow is intent on reigniting a full-scale conflict? Or are the Kremlin’s proxies in eastern Ukraine going rogue? To what extent do the agendas […]
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 and Recep Tayyip Erdogan are the odd couple. In many obvious ways they are similar. Both the Russian and Turkish presidents are alpha males who seem to enjoy basking in their manliness. Both have cracked down on civil society, suppressed civil liberties, and used the threat of terrorism and foreign […]
