AM Headlines: Ukraine Offers Russia Corridor to Transdniester; Critic of Kadyrov Disappears in Chechnya

Communists celebrate the 99th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution today, November 7, on Red Square. Photo by Sergei Savastyanov/TASS

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AM Headlines: Ukraine Offers Russia Corridor to Transdniester; Critic of Kadyrov Disappears in Chechnya

2016-11-07 18:28:47

The ruble is trading at 63.78 to the dollar and 70.38 to the euro. Brent crude is selling for $45.68.

The following headlines were taken from Kommersant, Grani, RBC, and Gazeta.

– Russia Discussing Delivery of Anti-Aircraft Defense Systems to Turkey

– Ukraine to Offer Russian Troops Corridor to Transdniestr

– Russian Opposition Applies for Permit to Demonstrate Against Bombing of Aleppo

– State Duma Supports Proposal to Investigate Alleged Alfa Bank Ties to Ukrainian Law-Enforcers

– Russian Protester Dadin Confirms Torture in Detention to Prison Monitors

– Critic of Chechen Strongman Kadyrov Disappears

– Vandals Destroy Cross at Memorial Site for Victims of Communism

– State Duma Revises Domestic Violence Law

– Trump Victory May Weaken Ruble: Russian Analysts

– Former Russian Elections Chief Refuses to Forecast American Elections

– US Citizen Arrested in Moscow on Charges of Sexual Assault of 14-Year-Old Girl

– Rosneft Selling 20% Stake in Verkhnechonskneftegaz for $1.1 Billion to China

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– Putin’s Disloyal Mutts: How Vladimir Vladimirovich Fell Out with Poligraf Poligrafovich by Kseniya Sobchak [Russian]

– You are Sharikov Yoursef: Reply of Roman Nosikov to Sobchack’s Open Letter to Putin [Russian]

– ‘Godfather, Come to Your Senses’: The Blonde Writes the President [Russian]

– A Plebe’s Conversation with Putin and Sobchak by Stanislav Belkovsky et. al. [Russian]

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— Catherine A. Fitzpatrick