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Kremlin officials have announced that Russia would not pursue criminal charges against the Wagner leader, whom Russian leader Vladimir Putin had accused a day prior of treason, but all sides have remained silent on other elements of the negotiations. [read post]
9 May 2023, 4:16 am by Rob Robinson
Russian-occupied Transnistria called on Russia to increase its peacekeepers in the region likely to support the Kremlin’s efforts to destabilize Moldova. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 11:05 am by Ama N. Appiah, Esq.
The Kremlin children's rights ombudsman said Friday that potential parents may still prepare the paperwork for adoptions but that courts will not hear U.S. adoption cases. [read post]
7 Apr 2022, 4:27 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
In an article posted to the Kremlin website last July, he went so far as to compare the institutionalizing of Ukrainian language and culture to “weapons of mass destruction. [read post]
7 Feb 2014, 4:26 am by Benjamin Wittes
From the New York Times: The tense Russian-American jockeying over the fate of Ukraine escalated on Thursday as a Kremlin official accused Washington of “crudely interfering” in the former Soviet republic, while the Obama administration blamed Moscow for spreading an intercepted private conversation between two American diplomats. [read post]
3 Jun 2012, 5:26 am by Glenn Reynolds
The Kremlin’s recent snubbing of German President Joachim Gauck and Putin’s absence at the G8 summit have led to suspicion as to how much swagger the Russian leader will exhibit in the coming months as his EU neighbors struggle. . . . [read post]
20 Jan 2020, 3:44 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The Internet Research Agency, the team of Kremlin-backed online propagandists, spent $15 million to $20 million and wreaked havoc on the psyche of the American voter, creating the impression that behind every Twitter avatar or Facebook profile was a Russian troll. [read post]
26 Apr 2022, 4:26 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Washington Post: “As governments and social media companies have moved to suppress Russia’s state media and the disinformation it spreads about the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s diplomats are stepping up to do the dirty work. [read post]
Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday issued a decree restricting visas for citizens of countries deemed unfriendly by the Kremlin. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 9:15 am
Here’s an interesting piece of modern Russian legal history: In 2006, oil company Yukos, once Russia’s largest private company, was re-nationalized by then-President Vladimir Putin — a move that many saw as retribution for the counter-Kremlin political activities of Yukos chairman Mikhail Khodorkovsky. [read post]
20 May 2019, 4:13 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
CNN – “…Finland has faced down Kremlin-backed propaganda campaigns ever since it declared independence from Russia 101 years ago. [read post]
10 Mar 2022, 5:24 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Bloomberg – “Providers of virtual private networks, or VPNs, are recording a surge in usage from Russia after the Kremlin cracked down on Facebook and other services as part of a broader effort to silence dissent and limit information about its invasion of Ukraine. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 3:34 pm by Chris Borgen
by Chris Borgen It’s not often that you run into a story that combines international arbitration, Kremlin politics, post-Soviet autocrats, utopian urban projects, transnational networks, electoral politics, and chess. [read post]
24 Jan 2024, 5:50 am by Vadim Prokhorov
My clients in Russia have included famed opposition leader Boris Nemtsov before he was assassinated near the Kremlin in 2015, jailed activist Ilya Yashin, the late dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, and Washington Post columnist and Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza. [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 11:40 am by Zarine Kharazian
Bill Browder, a billionaire hedge fund manager known for his full-throated criticism of the Kremlin’s human rights abuses, has had his U.S. visa restored after an initial ban triggered as a result of an INTERPOL red notice issued against him. [read post]
Russia has denied entry to aid workers due to alleged safety concerns, according to a Kremlin spokesperson. [read post]
18 Aug 2016, 7:13 pm by Tom Smith
This week things took a marked turn for the worse, however, with the exposure of highly sensitive NSA hacking tools on the Internet by a murky group calling itself “The Shadow Brokers” which announced it planned to sell programs purloined from the agency. [read post]
6 Mar 2018, 8:46 am by Tom Smith
Mr Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, are critically ill in hospital after being found unconscious in Salisbury, Wiltshire.The foreign secretary said he was not pointing fingers at this stage, but described Russia as "a malign and disruptive force".Russia has denied any involvement.Counter Terrorism Police have taken over the investigation from Wiltshire Police. [read post]