Saturday, May 29, 2021

Number of Russians Seeking Vaccination Collapses in Moscow, Other Russian Cities

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Paul Goble             Staunton, May 28 – At the start of the year, 300,000 Muscovites were seeking vaccination every month. By March, tha...

Moscow Using Western Sanctions to Justify Classifying Ever More Information, Tkachev Says

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Paul Goble             Staunton, May 27 – Although a decade ago, the Russian government declared it favored openness and transparency in t...

More Evidence Given that March 2019 Ingush Event was Not a Meeting and Thus That Charges Someone Organized It are Absurd

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Paul Goble             Staunton, March 27 – In a Kislovodsk courtroom yesterday, Barakh Chemurziyev, an Ingush activist who has been charg...

Russia Now Critically Dependent on Imports of Strategic Metals including from Ukraine, Audit Chamber Says

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Paul Goble             Staunton, May 27 – Russia relies on imports for more than a third of strategically important minerals, including fr...

Enthusiasm of Senior Officials for Using Prison Labor Raises Serious Questions, Shelin Says

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Paul Goble             Staunton, May 27 – Since Penal System head Aleksandr Kalashnikov proposed using 188,000 inmates as workers in the e...

Russian Regionalists Want Regions, Not Some New Man in the Kremlin, to Decide Country’s Future after Putin, Shtepa Says

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Paul Goble             Staunton, May 27 – The Kremlin’s decision to disperse the Zemstvo Congress along with its other repressive steps sh...

Moscow Closes 44 More Airports in North Effectively Cutting Off Large Swaths of Russia

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Paul Goble             Staunton, May 27 – Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has ordered the closure of services at 44 airports in the Russi...