Update: US intelligence found that top Russian officials discussed how to influence Trump aides last summer.
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Recent Analysis and Translations:
Novaya Gazeta on Threats of Retribution Against Journalists from Chechen Clergy over Articles on Persecution of LGBT
The Grief Factory: How Regime Supporters Are Choreographed to Mourn on Demand
Novaya Gazeta Reports Point-Blank Execution of Chechen ‘Attackers’ at Odds with Official Account of ‘Clash’ with National Guards
‘Hybrid Cyberwars’: Are the Russian Hackers’ Arrests About American or Internal Russian issues?
UPDATES BELOW
President Vladimir Putin kisses the relics of St. Nicholas the Miracle-Worker. Photo by TVC.ru
The ruble is trading for 56.35 to the dollar and 63.33 to the euro. Brent crude is selling for $54.46 to the barrel.
The following news items were taken from Gazeta, Novaya Gazeta, Washington Post, New York Times, and Moscow Times.
Translation: Famous people support Serebrennikov and Gogol Center
– Putin Tells Mironov Investigators are ‘Idiots’ for Searching Gogol Theater
– Police Have No Claims Against SERB Activists Regarding Attack on Navalny
– Interior Ministry Finds No Facts on Navalny’s Allegations of Medvedev’s Corruption
Translation: Reply of Interior Ministry on Palaces and Yachts of Dmitry Medvedev
– Putin Kisses Relics of St. Nicholas the Miracle-Worker
What We’re Reading
Translation: Turchak received an award for serves before the motherland, and you didn’t.
— Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
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