Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and missile frigate Admiral Grigorevich arrive off the coast of Syria as strikes against Aleppo are predicted.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Russia was living ‘in a parallel universe’ as diplomatic niceties were dropped clash with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov over Syria policy at the UN.
Agents of Russia’s Investigative Committee accompanied by the OMON riot police confiscated documents at the Bank of Russia, known in Russia as the Central Bank, evidently related to $92 million missing from the International Joint-Stock Bank.
Reports that people in the Donbass are protesting pro-Moscow forces there, that desertions among those forces are increasing, and that their members are even shooting at one another provide fresh support for the proposition that the pro-Moscow forces there are a new version of “the atamanshchina.”
ON MY MIND Russian state media will no doubt make a big deal out of Vladimir Putin’s visit to China later this week. But in reality, Moscow’s pivot to Beijing as an alternative to the West, a move announced amid much fanfare in 2014, has turned out to be much less than advertised. Last year, […]
Police detained Ruslan Shamsuarov, son of Azat Shamsuarov, senior VP of Lukoil, and his friends for speeding through Moscow in a Mercedes Gelandewagen
RT gets the headline wrong but demonstrates how Russian propaganda supports ultranationalism and Euro-skepticism.
Over the last five years, Vladimir Putin has moved to rein in or even destroy a dozen of Russia’s formerly more independent media outlets, most recently RBC. And that prompts the question: whom will the Kremlin leader go after next?
Pro-Russian Activism of Mateusz Piskorski Detained in Poland 2016-05-19 17:43:49 May 19, 2016 – On May 18-19, 2016, the media reported that Poland’s Internal Security Agency searched the homes of the leaders of the pro-Russian party Zmiana: Tomasz Jankowski, Konrad Rękas, and Mateusz Piskorski. It was also reported in the media — and then confirmed by Zmiana — that Piskorski […]
ON MY MIND Today marks the 72nd anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars from their homeland in 1944. And it’s worth noting that, like with other shameful events in Soviet history, the Kremlin and its surrogates are treating it’s memory with stunning callousness. The state-run Rossia-1 television station’s commentary during the Ukrainian singer […]
