by tool | May 29, 2017 | RMM EN 05/2017, Russia Monitor
RUSSIA MONITOR Date: 29 May 2017 Moscow’s Eye In the Heart of Abkhazia Russia continues its creeping annexation of Georgian territories, even though in 2008 it recognized them as independent states. Despite the protests of Tbilisi government and of Abkhazian...
by tool | May 27, 2017 | RMM EN 05/2017, Russia Monitor
RUSSIA MONITOR Date: 27 May 2017 Estonia Expels Russian Diplomats Russian consul general and another consul in the town of Narva must leave Estonia by the end of May. The government in Tallinn give no reasons for declaring the two Russians as personae non gratae. An...
by tool | May 26, 2017 | RMM EN 05/2017, Russia Monitor
RUSSIA MONITOR Date: 26 May 2017 The Hunt for Chubais, Putin Is Getting Weaker There have been unexpected turns of events in the case of RUSNANO’s managers accused of embezzlement. Several key themes of current Russian policy are combined here: the conflict between...
by tool | May 26, 2017 | RMM EN 05/2017, Russia Monitor
RUSSIA MONITOR Date: 26 May 2017 Gazprom Faring Poorly Recent performance figures of the gas giant, both the official ones and those computed by market analysts, point to a durable financial slump of the company. Not only has Gazprom failed to attain any real profit...
by tool | May 24, 2017 | RMM EN 05/2017, Russia Monitor
RUSSIA MONITOR Date: 24 May 2017 A Potemkin-style Landing Operation The first “shock” units have been established in Russian Airborne Troops (VDV), boasted the command of this military branch, considered as the most elite one in the Armed Forces of the Russian...
by tool | May 23, 2017 | RMM EN 05/2017, Russia Monitor
RUSSIA MONITOR Date: 23 May 2017 One More Area of Confrontation Moscow’s attitude to North Korean nuclear crisis is consistent with the strategy of geo-political competition with the US, pursued by Kremlin. This is one more part of the world where Russians refuse to...
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