Andreas Umland
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Russia's internet law a 'new level' of censorship: RSF | DW | 01.11.2019
Authorities in Russia now have the power to disconnect users from the global internet in line with a controversial new law. Reporters without Borders has slammed the move as a "dangerous step."
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Russia's internet law a 'new level' of censorship: RSF | DW | 01.11.2019
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Russia tells US not to release Trump-Putin transcripts
Russia on Friday urged the United States not to publish Donald Trump's conversations with Vladimir Putin after a growing scandal led the White House to release a transcript from a call with Ukraine's leader. "As for transcripts of phone...
‘Europe Couldn’t Export Democracy to Russia, but Russia has Exported Corruption to Europe,’ Kasparov Says
Paul Goble Staunton, September 15 – In Bild , Russian opposition leader Gary Kasparov says that unfortunately, “Europe was...
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‘Europe Couldn’t Export Democracy to Russia, but Russia has Exported Corruption to Europe,’ Kasparov Says - xing.com/r/plqIb @Kasparov63 @KasparovRU @Konflikt_Sicher @Osteuropakanal @ForumFreeRussia @NemtsovF @4FreeRussia_org @DeRuForum @RusslandRU @Russland_Forum
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‘We can find you anywhere’: the Chechen death squads stalking Europe
Ramzan Kadyrov rules the Caucasus republic through fear and oppression, amid reports of torture. But those seeking asylum in Europe are not safe, as assassins hunt them down
Moscow Worried About Chinese Dominance of Northern Sea Route
For years, Moscow had expected that it could dominate the Northern Sea Route and access to the rich natural resources on the Arctic seabed by virtue of its geographic position and its possession of the largest fleet of icebreakers in the...
[Ticker] Serbia to sign trade pact with Russia's 'Eurasian' bloc
Serbia is to sign a free-trade pact with the Russian-led Eurasian Union bloc, Russia's ambassador to Belgrade, Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, said on Monday after meeting Serb president Aleksandar Vucic, the Associated Press reports. The accord, to be...
German Investment in Russia Reaches Its Highest Level in a Decade
German businesses invested more than $3.7 billion in Russia last year.
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German Investment in Russia Reaches Its Highest Level in a Decade - The Moscow Times
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YouTube cashes in on neo-Nazi’s hate videos
YouTube has paid a neo-Nazi thousands of pounds and taken a cut of the money in a new revenue-generating scheme, it can be revealed. Mark Collett, a former British National Party (BNP) official who...
How a teenage girl reading the constitution in front of Putin's riot police became a symbol of Russian resistance
'I just wanted to remind them that we are here with peaceful purposes and without weapons - but they are not'
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How a teenage girl reading the constitution in front of Putin's riot police became a symbol of Russian resistance
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Ukraine's envoy to UN: "Russia not in position to tell us what language we should speak"
Yelchenko says the issue of the Ukrainian language is a "purely internal issue."
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Ukraine's envoy to UN: "Russia not in position to tell us what language we should speak"
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GPS jamming affecting Israel comes from Russian base in Syria: US researcher
Signal that has been interfering with airplanes in Israeli airspace is detectable from space, appears to come from new deployment of Moscow's electronic warfare systems
Trump says he inherited a mess. What's the world think?
A Pew Research poll of 37 nations showed President Obama got much higher ratings on the world stage than Trump does today.
Documenten oppositiekrant bevestigen rol Russisch leger bij vervoer Buk-raket die vlucht MH17 neerhaalde
De Russische oppositiekrant Novaja Gazeta heeft documenten in handen gekregen die bevestigen dat het Russische leger betrokken was bij het transpor...
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Documenten oppositiekrant bevestigen rol Russisch leger bij vervoer Buk-raket die vlucht MH17 neerhaalde
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Trump should be isolating Viktor Orbán, not feting him at the White House
With European Parliament elections coming up later this month, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's reception at the White House by President Trump appears an endorsement of illiberal, nationalist forces which seek to weaken the EU, providing...
Donbas ‘separatism’: Myth, statistics and heavily armed Russian spetsnaz
The West, as well as very many Ukrainians, have been all too ready to swallow Russia’s line about the supposedly overwhelming support for ‘joining Russia’ in Crimea and for ‘Russian world’ / ‘Novorossiya’ ideology in Donbas
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Donbas ‘separatism’: Myth, statistics and heavily armed Russian spetsnaz - Human Rights in Ukraine
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How Ukraine became a test bed for cyberweaponry
As Russian hackers face down Western spies, the country has become a live-fire space for hackers.
Bridge over Kerch strait subsides, - Ukraine's Ministry for Temporarily Occupied Territories
Images from the satellite show the construction sinking in certain sections, which is likely due to the unstable sea bottom in the area where the bridge's bulks were built
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@peterfrankopan A hypothesis for the #AzovSea escalation is that recent news about cracks in #KerchBridge were serious. Increasing military tensions around the bridge may be designed to provide an explanation for an - otherwise embarrassing - malfunction of the bridge
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Vladimir Putin, the Petty Strongman Who Straddles the World
The former middle manager and sidelined spy now rules an empire of influence that stretches from the halls of the Kremlin to war-torn Ukraine, Syria, and the streets of Londongrad.
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Tempting as it is to see the prime movers of history as great men and women, more often than not, it’s the middle managers and grey blurs who conquer and destroy nations. @michaeldweiss in @thedailybeast
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A New Schism?
The Kremlin's assertive foreign policy has pushed the Russian Orthodox Church into international isolation. Was this intentional?