Russian opposition figures who took part in recent discussions in Tallinn and Vilnius said upcoming elections in Russia will be totally predictable, says Vadim Shtepa, but they themselves were also totally predictable in focusing “almost exclusively” on Moscow and how Muscovites will react.
As the number of Russians living in poverty increases, last week one mother of five children handcuffed herself to the entrance of Putin’s office to protest lack of support, and other women stood along a highway offering to strip for passersby in order to earn money.
No one in the Donbass believes the ceasefire declared there a week ago will last, and many say the situation now is “even more frightening” that before.
In Moscow’s latest Orwellian move, the Russian Supreme Court has ruled that the USSR did not invade Poland in September 1939, declaring that those who say otherwise are rewriting history and promoting extremism
Putin’s War Games on Ukrainian Border Aimed Above All at Western Leaders, Analysts Say 2016-09-01 16:40:19 Staunton, VA, September 1, 2016 – In January 1991, after Soviet soldiers killed 14 Lithuanians in Vilnius, a remarkable political cartoon appeared: It showed a Soviet soldier pointing a gun at a Lithuanian who was proudly thrusting his chest forward […]
Russia’s military journalists have been sent to the war zone in Donbass. Is this a sign of impending escalation?
Whether Vladimir Putin will launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in the near future or simply continue to engage in destabilizing sabre-rattling to undermine Kyiv and distract Russians from their problems at home in advance of the Duma elections and the international community from his actions is far from clear.
The Defense Ministry has announced that “federal agencies of the executive government and enterprises of the defense sector” are to be involved and checked for their readiness to function in “war time.”
If Russia is going to invade Ukraine, it would have to be done in the next few weeks as the weather will change in October and new recruits come in that month, with other soldiers rotating out.
Officials at the Russian Flag Day festival in Sakha arrived early and ate up all the beautifully-decorated cakes intended for orphans and poor children.
