A more careful look at how Russia is spinning the Dutch report on the Malaysian Airlines tragedy suggests that Putin may be looking for ways to wash his hands of the whole war in Eastern Ukraine.
Russia’s security services have been slowly taking over the state—and dismantling Putin’s own system of keeping the various factions competing with each other.
Russian authorities have authorized a one-time payment to pensioners next year to help in difficult times. The disbursement, however, will at least in part be funded by expropriating today’s workers’ savings.
The way Moscow’s mayor has handled the demolition of dozens of kiosks in the city’s center tells us a lot about how personalized politics and corruption in Putin’s Russia works.
What could have triggered a trusted ally’s fall from grace? Putin’s paranoid fear of revolutions, heightened after the Turkish coup, is probably a large part of the answer.
Rumors swirl about forces trying to discredit Russia’s Prime Minister. It could be Kudrin, it could be the opposition—or it could be just a ploy to keep the people laughing.
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