by CBBSS | Apr 30, 2021 | Regional News
Thousands of demonstrators protested in Moscow Monday against the Kremlin’s efforts to block the popular Telegram messaging app, RFE/RL reports. Protesters chanted “Putin is a thief” and called for the Kremlin to halt its Internet censorship efforts....
by CBBSS | Apr 30, 2021 | Regional News
On a trip to Turkey, new U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo conveyed Washington’s serious concerns over Turkey’s planned acquisition of Russia’s S-400 missile defense system, which Ankara says is a done deal. If Ankara were to acquire both the S-400...
by CBBSS | Apr 29, 2021 | Regional News
Much to the chagrin of environmentalists, Russia has released a floating nuclear plant from Saint Petersburg, which will be towed through the Baltic Sea to a base in Murmansk, the Independent reports. Then in summer 2019, the plant is expected be towed to the Arctic...
by CBBSS | Apr 28, 2021 | International News and Analysis
The Moscow Times runs an op-ed suggesting Putin has refrained from intervening in the color revolution-esque events in Armenia because of a lack of political will in Yerevan — which still has a pro-Russian elite — to pursue NATO membership or western integration....
by CBBSS | Apr 28, 2021 | Regional News
Russian metal tycoon and Kremlin insider Oleg Deripaska caved to pressure from the U.S. by agreeing to sell some of his shares in the aluminum company Rusal to take his stake to under 50% in hope that Washington will remove some of the crippling sanctions recently...