Tag: Russia

Watchdog Calls For Jailed Russian Anti-Landfill Protester Leader To Be Freed (RFE RL)

Amnesty International is calling on the Russian authorities to release an imprisoned environmental activist who led anti-landfill protests near Moscow in 2018. Vyacheslav Yegorov was...

Siberian Opposition Activist Says Wife ‘Poisoned,’ Believes He Was The Target (RFE RL)

The wife of opposition figure Aleksei Tupitsin has suffered what he says doctors described as "a chemical poisoning," which he believes was an attack...

Russia’s Kirov Region Culls Poultry After Avian-Flu Outbreak (RFE RL)

Russian authorities have ordered the mass culling of poultry in the western Kirov region after an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza. The region’s governor,...

Ukraine faces energy crisis as Putin weaponizes gas and coal supplies (Aura Sabadus, Atlantic Council)

As the winter season draws closer, Ukraine faces an energy crisis on multiple fronts which could lead to political instability and deepen the country’s...

Is Lukashenka mimicking Putin’s weaponization of organized crime? (Brian Whitmore, Atlantic Council)

You can call it trolling. You can call it gaslighting. Or you can just call it the usual run-of-the-mill hypocrisy. Aleksandr Bastrykin, chairman of Russia’s...

Weapons Tracing Study Implicates Russia in Ukraine Conflict (Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times)

A study of weapons and ammunition used in the war in Ukraine shows that Russia has been systematically fanning the conflict with arms shipments,...

Triple Threat? Russia Halts Coal Exports To Ukraine, Cancels Power Auction Amid Gas Crisis (Yevhen Solonyna, Todd Prince, RFE RL)

For months, critics have accused Russia of withholding additional natural-gas shipments to Europe via Ukraine in order to pressure Brussels to fast-track its new...

Unfortunate but Inevitable: Moldova’s Gas Supply Agreement With the Kremlin and Gazprom (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

On October 29, Moscow and Chisinau agreed on a conditional resumption of Russian natural gas supplies to Moldova as of October 30. The Russian...

Russia’s Armed Forces Rehearse the Defense of Crimea (Roger McDermott, The Jamestown Foundation)

At the end of October, the Russian Armed Forces staged a military exercise in Crimea to rehearse the defense of the occupied peninsula. The...

Building ‘stable, predicable’ US-Russia ties: dream or reality? (ORF)

On November 2, the Secretary of Russia’s National Security Council Nikolai Patrushev and CIA Director William Burns met to discuss various issues related to US-Russia ties....

Russian LNG Shipments to India: Strategic Implications and Long-Term Prospects (Sergey Sukhankin, The Jamestown Foundation)

In late September, Russia’s first Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU)—specifically designed for emergency transportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) via the Baltic Sea to...

Putin’s Ukraine War: Russian MP recalls efforts to push civil war myth (Peter Dickinson, Atlantic Council)

“Russia’s foreign minister accused Ukrainian leaders on Monday of trying to drag Moscow into the conflict in eastern Ukraine, following an escalation in fighting...

Moscow, Kyiv deny reports of Russian military buildup near border (Al Jazeera)

Russia has denied media reports that it is massing military units near its border with Ukraine. Tuesday’s rebuttal came after the United States-based Politico news...

Russian nuclear weapons stand out in defense budget request (Alexander Bratersky, Defense News)

Russia plans to gradually increase spending on its nuclear weapons capabilities over the next three years, according to the draft of the national budget...

Is Russia finally getting serious on climate change? (Ian Hill)

At last month’s annual Valdai forum in Russia, President Vladimir Putin said it was “impossible” to deny climate change when disasters had become “almost a...

Spurning Pair of International Summits, Putin Denounces Globalization (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

The back-to-back international summits of the G20 in Rome and COP26 in Glasgow at the end of October brought together hosts of dignitaries and...