Update: Russian bombers flew near Alaska, prompting a US escort. Opposition leader Alexey Navalny was first told by authorities he could get a foreign passport to travel abroad, then told he could not travel.
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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?
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Photo: Russians carry portraits of Stalin at May Day March in St. Petersburg. Photo by David Frankel/Kommersant
The ruble is trading at 58.37 to the dollar and 64.11 to the euro. Brent crude is selling for $48.32 per barrel.
The following items were taken from 7:40 na perrone, Novaya Gazeta, Gazeta, RosBalt, RBC, HRW, Fox News, Bloomberg, Meduza, Open Russia and Kommersant.
What We’re Reading
Translation: They have no shame. RenTV (a department of LifeNews) publishes a video with the zelyonka [indelible green antiseptic]. Best proof that the FSB and Presidential Administration were also involved in the incident. Trademark style.
For Russia and U.S., Uneasy Cooperation On Cybercrime Is Now A Mess by Mike Eckel [English]
Translation: Roman Badanin, editor-in-chief of @TVRain has gone to live in the USA; he has entered Stanford University.
– The ‘Navalny Threat’: New Quality of Problem for the Kremlin by Tatyana Stanovaya [Russian]
— Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
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