A Step At A Time (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Mikhail Sokolov: So is Russia continuing to travel along the path laid out by Putin – anti-Westernism, “soft” dictatorship, and so on, or not? Yuri Felshtinsky : You know, I can’t really call what’s happening in Russia today anti-Westernism, or even soft dictatorship. The people in the government are mostly those who worked for the KGB all their lives, or sometimes for...
Sultan Knish (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The roundup begins with what might be Russia's own Fort Hood Massacre as a Russian priest, Daniil Sysoyev was gunned down in his own church. While there is still no word on the killer, but Daniil Sysoyev had made his reputation by preaching to and trying to convert Muslims... and had received many death threats over it. 34 year-old Daniil Sysoyev was shot at least four times at in the head and chest...
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Do not insult ISLAM. Russian Priest Gunned Down in Church ABC News hat tip Natassia Orthodox Priest Known For Missionary Work Shot in Moscow "The main theory is that religious motives are behind the crime," a prosecutor's office spokesman told reporters. Sysoyev routinely denounced Islam and actively reached out to Muslims and various religious sects to convert them. In a recent interview...
Kavkazcenter.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
According to information from publication "Segodnya", a special operation commenced in Russian terrorist gang FSB by coded name
Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
People in the West see Putin and Russia through the rose colored glasses [provided by the mass media.] Well, the reality is not rose colored at all. After gangsterism and anarchy of Eltsin's reign, people wanted "a strong hand". And here comes Putin. In the first place everybody was suspicious. Within half-year he rose from a little-known bureaucrat to Prime Minister and President. He was...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained, in cooperation with the Investigation Committee and foreign law enforcement bodies, 14 suspected human traffickers, the service reported Tuesday.
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Guardian: Russian far-right activists arrested for murder of journalist and lawyer Human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and reporter Anastasia Baburova were gunned down in Moscow earlier this year Investigators today said they had solved one of Russia 's most notorious killings and had arrested two far-right activists for the murders of the human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and reporter Anastasia Baburova were gunned down in Moscow earlier this year Investigators today said they had solved one of Russia's most notorious killings and had arrested two far-right activists for the murders of the human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist Anastasia Baburova. Markelov – a friend of the assassinated journalist Anna...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
One of two suspects detained on suspicion of involvement in the January murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and trainee journalist Anastasia Baburova has confessed, the head of Russia's FSB said on Thursday.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Moscow rules out extradition during British foreign secretary's 'fence-mending' trip Russia snubbed the latest British request for the extradition of Andrei Lugovoi, the prime suspect in the murder of the former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko in London three years ago. Russia made clear that there is no prospect of Lugovoi being handed over for trial. During talks this morning in Moscow, the foreign...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Kremlin hints at better relations with Britain, for the first time since the murder of Alexander Litvinenko The foreign secretary, David Miliband, arrived in Russia today amid strong indications that the Kremlin was willing to improve relations with the UK for the first time since the murder of the former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko. Writing in tomorrow's Guardian, Russia's ambassador, Yuri...
Once Upon a Time in the West (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
On Wednesday Ecuador’s leftist president Rafael Correa arrived in Russia on a three-day working visit. This is the first time that a sitting Ecuadorean president has travelled to Moscow, during or after the Cold War. While huddling with counterpart Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Russia’s KGB-communist dictator, Correa signed a strategic partnership that addresses bilateral...
Raționalitate (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
The Russian government has recently announced that a new round of privatizations of state firms will occur next year, and Stratfor seems to think that this is a potentially monumental step for the Russian state. According to Stratfor (the first two parts of a five-part series have already been published), * this is the beginning of a sort of "clan war" within the Kremlin. Stratfor frames...
Kavkazcenter.com (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Special detachments of Russian terrorist gang formations of "FSB of Russia", in the morning on October 23 began to pull the barbed wire along the demarcation line between occupied by Russia
Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Stratfor THE KREMLIN WARS (SPECIAL SERIES), PART 2: THE COMBATANTS Summary Former Russian president and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is the indisputable executive power in Russia. His strength comes largely from his ability to control Russia's opposing political clans. Those two clans, which have been fighting for influence for most of the past eight years, are about to see fresh conflict...
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