Tag: Syrian Refugee Crisis

From Ukraine To Amsterdam To Syria, Vladimir Putin Is Running This Poker Table

February 15, 2016

The Kremlin’s sharks are circling, likely because at the moment there are large pools of blood spilling into the water. Vladimir Putin’s strategy to break the West and expand Russia’s power has perfectly exploited current events and the lack of resolve of his chief opponents. As Ukraine faces a major political crisis, Russian troops are […]

The Russian Surveillance State: A Conversation With Andrei Soldatov – Interpreter Podcast

November 18, 2015

Long before Edward Snowden worked for the NSA — before PRISM and Wikileaks — there was SORM, the Russian system of intercepting and monitoring communications. In the hands of a dictator, SORM has become a powerful weapon for the Kremlin to target his opponents both at home and abroad. Bloomberg has even questions whether Russia’s […]