The New York Times reports: After Russia’s ruble hit a 16-month low against the U.S. dollar, raising fears of rising inflation, even one of President Vladimir V. Putin’s top cheerleaders in state media lashed out at the country’s financial authorities on Thursday over...
Reuters reports: The co-founder of Russian internet giant Yandex, Arkady Volozh, on Thursday condemned what he described as Russia’s “barbaric” invasion of Ukraine, days after criticism in Russia over his apparent efforts to distance himself from the...
Time Magazine’s Washington correspondent Philip Elliot, in an interview with Nobel Prize-winning human rights activists, reveals why Russia tolerates Putin’s brutal dictatorship and the propaganda behind that. Excerpt: To appreciate the power of a myth,...
The founder and editor-in-chief of the conservative American Spectator, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., calls out Putin’s and the Russian Federation’s corruption: WASHINGTON — Well, how are things going for Vladimir Putin? He has been showing a KGB sleuth’s...
Nicholas Kristof, a prominnent New York Times columnist devoted to human rights, writing from Eastern Europe on how gravely Putin has diminished Russia’s status among its neighbors… and former loyalists. Excerpt: TALLINN, Estonia — Vladimir Putin...
