Sputnik, a Russian state-owned, English-language news agency, ran a story today claiming that the German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, had, in part, blamed protesters and pro-democracy activists for the Syrian civil war. Steinmeier is regarded in some quarters as being somewhat friendlier to the Kremlin than his French and British counterparts, or his Chancellor, Angela […]
While Yanukovych’s former adviser has now resigned as Trump’s campaign manager, is the GOP nominee still owed a “favor” by a Russian state media personality?
It’s been many weeks since Ramzan Kadyrov, acting president of the Chechen Republic, has been in the news. Now late tonight after months of quietly rallying his own troops and cultivating regional and lower-level Kremlin officials, he has obtained an audience with President Vladimir Putin himself,
The Russian parliamentary elections are only a month away, but there has been little Russian mainstream media coverage of them this past month; the opposition’s struggles are mainly over with only a few registered.
The Russian and Ukrainian media are avidly investigating the claims made by Russia’s Federal Security Service regarding two alleged Crimean border clashes. The opinion is that war will escalate due to the Kremlin’s vow to respond to the clashes and other factors.
The evidence clearly implicates the Russian government in the hacking of the DNC, a clear attempt to influence November’s election. And it’s not the only one.
At the end of last week, President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is to visit the Kremlin at the beginning of August. This will be Erdoğan’s first face-to-face meeting with his Russian counterpart since September 2015. Relations between the two countries, which had been fraying over the course […]
Just over two years ago, on July 16, 2014, The Interpreter was able to geolocate and verify video footage showing rocket launchers in Russian territory firing into Ukraine, clearly demonstrating the international nature of the conflict. https://youtu.be/-6RcvjvDq2c While the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH 17 on the following day overshadowed this major escalation in […]
While opposition party Parnas has registered its candidates for the September parliamentary elections, persecution of members, lack of access to state media as well as infighting diminish its chances of getting any seats.
Disarray and lack of unity among Russian opposition groups has caused some to invoke the memory of their leader Boris Nemtsov, assassinated in February 2015, asking what he would have done.
