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August 20, 2024

Blinis in Buenos Aires

Russian émigrés are buying apartments, beauty salons, restaurants, and other assets in Argentina and Brazil. They’ve brought popular Russian pastimes with them, too, noted the Wall Street Journal, like smoking tobacco from hookahs and eating beef shish kabobs rather than thick, South American-style steaks. Meanwhile, in...

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August 09, 2024

Human Shields

The return of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan and other foreign prisoners in Russian custody in the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War ended the latest round of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s so-called “hostage diplomacy.” Defined in World Politics...

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July 22, 2024

Bargaining Chips

A Russian court this week sentenced Wall Street Journal (WSJ) correspondent Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in prison on charges of espionage, a verdict that has prompted Western condemnation and accusations that Moscow is using the US journalist as a bargaining chip, NPR reported. The case...

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June 26, 2024

The Most Wanted

The International Criminal Court (ICC) this week issued arrest warrants for two senior Russian officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity for their role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Associated Press reported. On Tuesday, the Netherlands-based tribunal accused former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu...

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June 12, 2024

Eye of the Beholder

Russian-American historian Yuri Felshtinsky recently told Times Radio that Russian elites are in a “state of panic” over Russia’s massive losses in the war against Ukraine. In order to maintain their control over the country, however, Felshtinsky said, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his domestic...

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May 03, 2024

Staying in the Ring

More than two years after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops to invade his western neighbor, Ukrainian forces are showing signs of breaking. In recent months, the Russians have reclaimed territory that Ukraine had seized back. Putin has been striking more forcefully at Ukrainian civilian energy...

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April 17, 2024

Cats and Dogs

Unprecedented heavy rains unleashed devastating floods across southern Russia, Central and South Asia this week, claiming dozens of lives and displacing tens of thousands, and prompting anger from residents and concerns about climate change among scientists, CBS News reported. Lightning and torrential rains killed more than...

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March 19, 2024

Winner Takes All

Russian President Vladimir Putin clinched another term in power following a tightly managed presidential election over the weekend, a victory that puts him on a path to catching up to Soviet leader Josef Stalin as Russia’s longest-serving leader, the Wall Street Journal reported. Exit polls showed...

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March 07, 2024

Round Two

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued warrants this week for two Russian military leaders accused of war crimes in Ukraine, the second time the Netherlands-based court has ordered the arrest of Moscow officials since the conflict began two years ago, the Washington Post reported. Tuesday’s warrants...

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