Ukraine Denies Supply of Missile Technology to DPRK; Russia Arrests ‘Ukrainian Saboteur’; Gays Attacked in St. Petersburg

Update: Russia’s Elections Commission chief has said opposition leader Alexei Navalny can only run in the elections if he appeals his criminal sentence — or the election law is changed.

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Ukraine Denies Supply of Missile Technology to DPRK; Russia Arrests ‘Ukrainian Saboteur’; Gays Attacked in St. Petersburg

2017-08-16 09:41:03

Nataliya Poklonskaya, prosecutor in Russia-occupied Crimea. Photo by Aleksei Konovalov.

The ruble is trading at 59.60 to the dollar and 69.93 to the euro. Brent crude is selling for 51.25.

–Ukraine Denies Supplying North Korea With Missile Technology, Alleges Russia To Blame

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–FSB Arrested Ukrainian ‘Saboteur’ in Occupied Crimea; Limeshko Accused as ‘SBU Agent‘; Dismissed from Ukrainian Army in May; SBU Denounces ‘Latest Russian Provocation’

–Intel Report: Russia Opens Secret Military Supply Route to Iran, Violates Nuclear Deal

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–Criminal Case Opened in Attack on St. Petersburg LGBT

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Translation: Attack on LGBT activists on the bridge at Savior-on-the-Blood [Cathedral]. Some were heavily attacked with pepper spray, and taken away in ambulances.

–Udaltsov Says He Was Offered Freedom in Exchange for Public Recantation

–Yevgeny Chichvarkin, Russian Businessman and Communications Coordinator for Open Russia, Opens Account to Fund-Raise for Navalny

–Channel One Cancels ‘Until They’re All At Home’ Orphans Show Over Government Payments Scandal 

–Presidential Council Urges Monitoring of Krasnoyarsk Labor Colony After Reports of Beatings

–Elections Commission Head Pamfilova Says Navalny May Only Run If He Appeals Sentence or Election Law is Changed

–Federal Anti-Monopoloy Service Closes Case Against Microsoft

–Putin Says ‘Death Groups’ Lead Teens to Suicide and Earn a Profit

What We’re Reading

–Revival of the ‘Tsar-Worshippers’ Sect’, Father Sergiy (Nikolai Romanov), and Polonskaya: Why They Are So Influential, Although They Annnoy the ROC by Aleksandr Soldatov [Russian]

–We’re Delirious From Suffocation: 17 Years Since the Kursk Disaster

–Kaspersky Lab Has Been Working With Russian Intelligence

–Oxxymiron and Gnoyny Against Deputies and Bureaucrats: Test; Rap Battle Has 12 Million Views in 2 Days

–Lavrov’s Vision of the Russian Civic Nation at Terra Scientia

— Catherine A. Fitzpatrick 

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