The Daily Vertical: Who’s Afraid Of Montenegro? (Transcript)
By Brian Whitmore, RFE/RL
One has to wonder why the Kremlin is getting so hysterical about Montenegro joining NATO.
I mean, let's have a little reality...
Putin Needs an Intelligentsia that Complains but Knows Its Place, Shevtsova Says
By Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia
Vladimir Putin needs a constantly complaining but one that knows what not to criticize – his person and immediate...
Russian Hacking Allegations Could Get Putin Reelected (Op-ed)
Allegations of Russian hacking are still murky, but distraction in Washington is still a net gain for Russia
By Vladimir Frolov, for The Moscow Times
Vladimir...
The ‘Russian World’ in Germany
By Nikolai Mitrokhin, Eurozine
Pro-Kremlin propaganda spread through social media is causing a shift to the far-Right among Germany’s native Russian population. Nikolai Mitrokhin considers...
Fake: Ukraine’s Security Service Orders Destruction of MH17 Crash Evidence
Russian sites Sovershenno Sekretno (Top secret) and the Federal Investigation Agency.ru published stories featuring what they claim are Ukrainian Security Service documents with instructions...
Window to Nowhere. Russian Media Upset about Ukrainian Visa Free Travel to EU Countries
Russia’s Defense Ministry television channel Zvezda got into the visa-free travel to the EU is doom for Ukrainians game in a special report menacingly...
Crimean Journalist’s Trial Resumes, Adjourned Until June 14
By RFE/RL
The trial of RFE/RL contributor Mykola Semena, a Crimean journalist who is fighting what he says is a politically motivated separatism charge on...
Moscow TV Round-Up: Literature, Justice and the Third Reich
By Mark H. Teeter, for The Moscow Times
It’s "strange bedfellows week" on Moscow television, as the small screen offers its audience great literature (live!),...
Digital Guerrillas Bring Down Russian State Censor’s Website
When access to the messaging app Telegram was interrupted in Russia on June 3, for the second time in less than a week, some worried that...
How a social media joke became anti-NATO propaganda in Estonia
By Urve Eslas, for CEPA
A Russian propaganda website has turned a local joke about the Estonian-Russian border fence into an anti-NATO narrative directed at...