Brian Whitmore is the author of RFE/RL's popular Power Vertical blog, written especially for Russia wonks and obsessive Kremlin watchers, and the host of the weekly Power Vertical Podcast.
The Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday.
Vladimir Putin's regime long ago declared war on gays and lesbians. And now, it appears, it's declaring war on women.
Don't look now but it's been one hell of a deadly month in the Donbas.
The separatists of the world will be uniting in Moscow next month.
Russia's doping scandal puts the International Olympic Committee in something of a bind.
Last year, we lost Boris Nemtsov. Yesterday, we lost Pavel Sheremet.
So this is your Olympic team -- and this is your Olympic team on drugs.
So it appears that Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov will get his own reality show modeled on the U.S. hit The Apprentice in which the winners will be given a spot in his government. No, really, I'm serious.
Police in the Spanish port city of Tarragona have detained at least six Russian citizens believed to be connected to the infamous Tambovskaya Gruppirovka -- the Tambov organized crime group -- on suspicion of money laundering. It's just another in a long series of data points linking Russia's rulers to the mob.
Here's a little statistic to consider as the European Union considers whether to extend sanctions against Russia this week.
Until Moscow chooses to remember this dark chapter in its history, it will be doomed to endlessly repeat it.
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