Russia News Blast

July 14, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 14, 2017

TODAY: Student expelled from university after organising anticorruption protest; Navalny says family is being tracked by intelligence services; Yandex merges with Uber to create new $3.73bn taxi venture; Kremlin says disputed turbines are Russian;...
July 13, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 13, 2017

TODAY: US bans purchase of Kaspersky Labs software, company says move is political; capital outflows up 71% year-on-year; Russia continues to move Siemens gas turbines to Crimea; Polonsky sentenced but immediately released; Chaika connections with...
July 12, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 12, 2017

TODAY: Siemens to sue Russia over removal of gas turbines to Crimea; Novak calls for end to sabotage of Russian energy projects in the EU; Russia agrees $3.5bn arms deal with Saudi Arabia; Kaspersky Lab has worked with FSB, emails show; Russia com...
July 11, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 11, 2017

TODAY: Website uses ID software to post protesters’ names; all parties except United Russia are in membership crisis; NATO says Russia must withdraw its thousands of troops from Ukraine; Kremlin says possible cybersecurity team with US only in ear...
July 10, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 10, 2017

TODAY: Putin and Trump meeting runs over by almost 2 hours, either very friendly or very awkward, depending on source; Trump fails to press Putin on elections, treatment of gay men in Chechnya, treatment of protesters, or the Boris Nemtsov case; c...
July 7, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 7, 2017

TODAY: Putin expected to own Trump during their meeting today, slams anti-Russian sanctions as contradictory to G20 principles; Navalny election headquarters raided; Humpty Dumpty head hacker sentenced; Novak says OPEC cuts are working; Gazprom bu...
July 6, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 6, 2017

TODAY: Achieving ‘working dialogue’ is Kremlin’s hope for Trump-Putin meeting; US President seen to be in weak negotiating position; Russia’s economy, however, offers little to vaunt; Kremlin extends food import ban; Channel One show caught ...
July 5, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 5, 2017

TODAY: Flurry of agreements signed upon Jinping’s visit to Moscow; China and Russia close ranks over US response to North Korea missile test; Germany anticipates fake news leaks during its elections, courtesy of Moscow; Kremlin defiant of Se...
July 4, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 4, 2017

TODAY: Presidents Putin and Trump gear up for their first meeting on sidelines of G20; agenda appears vague whilst anticipation mounts; seizure of Russian diplomatic property under Obama regime remains sore point; Tillerson says Syria’s futu...
July 3, 2017

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – July 3, 2017

TODAY: Putin extends counter-sanctions against EU, Russia suspends payments to Council of Europe; Putin in discussions with Arab leaders; Kudrin says Russia cannot develop economically without the West; nuclear clean-up begins at Andreyeva Bay; Uk...