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2017/06/20 - 00:14 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
The trial in the murder of Boris Nemtsov, one of Russia’s leading opposition figures, is coming to a close. Leonid Martynyuk, friend and colleague of the slain opposition leader, who recently received political asylum in the United...
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2017/05/26 - 20:36 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
In a move that suggests the Russian authorities have decided to crack down hard on the striking long-haul truck drivers, police last night arrested more than 20 drivers legally parked near Moscow and then planted evidence that could be...
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2017/04/14 - 10:58 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Last night and this morning after the end of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit, Vladimir Putin ordered the arrest of nine opposition figures across the entire country, “from Nakhodka to Samara,” Rusmonitor reports. Ilya...
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2017/03/28 - 07:36 •
Analysis & Opinion, Belarus, Politics, Russia
For more than two decades, many governments and commentators in the West have allowed themselves to feel morally superior by denouncing Alyaksandr Lukashenka as “the last dictator in Europe,” a title that at least some of them will...
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2017/03/21 - 11:22 •
Analysis & Opinion, Belarus
Alyaksandr Lukashenka may crack down on protesters later this month in a bloody fashion just as he did in December 2010, Sergey Kalyakin says; but neither that prospect nor the numerous arrests this week is intimidating Belarusians....
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2017/03/16 - 07:33 •
Analysis & Opinion, Belarus, Politics
Russian agents in the Belarusian security services along with Russian agents in the blogosphere are calling on Alyaksandr Lukashenka not to make any concessions to the protesters but rather to crack down hard as he did in 2010, according...
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2017/03/13 - 12:09 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
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2017/03/11 - 03:07 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, former head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for relations between church and society, has called for the creation of special death squads to hunt down and destroy emigres who, he suggests, are often...
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2017/02/22 - 14:27 •
Analysis & Opinion, Belarus, Politics, Russia
Because the money is running out and because Russia can no longer make up the difference, Alyaksandr Lukashenka faces a situation he neither expected nor knows how to respond to, one in which not the nationalists but his own electorate has...
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2017/02/22 - 14:05 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics
Nikolay Kozlov, a retired Belarusian interior ministry lieutenant colonel and deputy head of the independent United Civic Party, says that all indications are that the Belarusian internal troops are preparing to use force to disperse...
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