The Daily Vertical: Russia’s real debate (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
The most interesting thing that happened during yesterday's so-called election was a heated debate between a candidate who received less...
Putin’s Vision of a New ‘World Order’ Increasingly Worrisome, Kirillova Says
By Paul Goble, Window on Ukraine
It is perhaps emblematic of the times, but Vladimir Putin is increasingly using video clips and full-scale films to...
Putin’s Brezhnev Moment
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
So, Vladimir Putin just had another Leonid Brezhnev moment.
Last year, the current Kremlin leader surpassed the longtime Soviet ruler in...
How I Accidentally Spread ‘Fake News’ And Learned From It
By Gordana Knezevic, for RFE/RL
Not long ago, during an extensive dive into my e-mails in search of a friend’s address, I came across a...
The view from Moscow: Sound and Fury
By Maria Snegovaya, for CEPA
To whom and why did Russian President Vladimir Putin address in his impressively aggressive Federal Assembly speach delivered on 1...
The Daily Vertical: Putin’s image police (transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
Like any head of state, Vladimir Putin has an army of bodyguards to protect him.
But unlike most heads of state,...
The Daily Vertical: More Than One Way To Undermine Your Neighbor’s Sovereignty (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, for RFE/RL
There's more than one way to steal your neighbor's territory.
There's more than one way to undermine your neighbor's sovereignty.
There's more...
Militarily, Baltic region is stable; but in terms of information war, it’s not, Latvian...
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
The situation in the Baltic region militarily is “quite stable,” Andis Kudors says, not only because NATO has beefed...
Most people in the West make two fatal mistakes about Moscow ‘media,’ Yakovenko says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Most people in the West continue to make two “fatal” mistakes about the media in Putin’s Russia, Igor Yakovenko...
Russians so overwhelmingly apolitical that poll numbers are meaningless, Kagarlitsky says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Given that 90 percent of Russian society is “apolitical,” Moscow commentator Boris Kagarlitsky says, “it is impossible” to say...