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Three Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in the last day.

Four Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 5 wounded in the last 24 hours, the Ukrainian military reports.

This is Part 6 of a special Daily Vertical series on Vladimir Putin and the ghosts of Kremlins past. (The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.) Vladimir Putin is haunted by his predecessors. He’s spooked by how one of them came to power, through a revolution in the […]

This is Part 5 of a special Daily Vertical series on Vladimir Putin and the ghosts of Kremlins past. (The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.) Vladimir Putin is haunted by his predecessors. He’s spooked by how one of them came to power, through a revolution in the […]

This is Part 4 of a special Daily Vertical series on Vladimir Putin and The Ghosts Of Kremlins Past. (The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.) Vladimir Putin is haunted by his predecessors. He’s spooked by how one of them came to power, through a revolution in the […]

This is Part 3 of a special Daily Vertical series on Vladimir Putin and The Ghosts Of Kremlins Past. (The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.) Vladimir Putin is haunted by his predecessors. He’s spooked by how one of them came to power, through a revolution in the […]

This is Part Two of a special Daily Vertical series on Vladimir Putin and The Ghosts Of Kremlins Past. (The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.) Vladimir Putin is haunted by his predecessors. He’s spooked by how one of them came to power, through a revolution in the […]

(The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.) The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. Viewers can suggest topics via Twitter @PowerVertical or on thePower Vertical Facebook page. A transcript of today’s Daily Vertical can be found here.

  The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL. The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. Viewers can suggest topics via Twitter @PowerVertical or on thePower Vertical Facebook page. A transcript of today’s Daily Vertical can be found here.

ON MY MIND They’ve been gunned down in their stairwells. They’ve been shot dead on Moscow streets. And one was even poisoned with a rare radioactive isotope in the heart of London. Political assassinations have become a regular feature of post-Soviet Russia — from television anchor Vladislav Listyev back in 1995 to Boris Nemtsov in […]