Mike Eckel
Senior Correspondent at Radio Free Europe
Opponent of Quiet Desperation. Contains Multitudes. In Search Of Meanness Or Sublimity. Ex-Moscow Correspondent. Vladivostok Fanboy. @RFERL Signal: MikeEckel.16
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1 week ago |
rferl.org | Mike Eckel
Sometime around May 13, two battle-hardened Russian motor rifle regiments pushed into the ruined village of Nova Poltavka, crossing the T0504 highway that links the Ukrainian holdout cities of Pokrovsk and Kostyantynivka. The road has served as a critical supply line for Ukrainian forces and their battered defensive lines along a 100-kilometer section of the front. Military experts say the loss of the highway is unlikely to lead to an immediate collapse of the Ukrainian lines.
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2 weeks ago |
rferl.org | Mike Eckel
An Italian court sentenced a Geneva-based Russian lawyer to 38 months in prison for his role in helping politically connected Russian businessman Arytom Uss flee house arrest from a Milan suburb two years ago. The verdict against Dmitry Chirakadze was handed down by a judge in Milan on May 22, according to Italian newsreports.
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2 weeks ago |
rferl.org | Mike Eckel
After Artyom Uss, a Russian businessman and son of a powerful Kremlin-connected governor, escaped from Italian house arrest two years ago, investigators spent months honing in on a motley Balkan crime gang that smuggled him home to Russia. The trail of evidence led from the suburbs of Milan to Zagreb, to Belgrade, and to the sprawling Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk, where Uss hailed from.
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2 weeks ago |
rferl.org | Todd Prince |Mike Eckel
Last month, US President Donald Trump had stern words for Vladimir Putin suggesting the Russian leader was stalling for time, or “tapping” Trump along, amid the White House push to halt Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, which is now in its fourth year. Shuttle diplomacy was in high gear; Kyiv had agreed to an immediate, unconditional, 30-day cease-fire; Moscow had not; Ukraine and Russia continued to pound one another with drones and missiles.
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4 weeks ago |
rferl.org | Mike Eckel
Eighty years after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Russian President Vladimir Putin had plenty to say about it and the unparalleled destruction that the Soviet Union suffered during World War II. Not so much about that other war, the largest in Europe since World War II: Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In fact, except for a passing mention of what Putin calls the "special military operation," there was none at all. It might be a coping mechanism. Or it might be a split-screen visual.
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Here's Medinsky today: "We consider these negotiations to be a continuation of the peace process in Istanbul, which unfortunately were ended by the Ukrainians 3 years ago." (note: the proposals that came out of the 2022 talks were widely seen by Kyiv as outright capitulation.) https://t.co/3RQZlzgDoX
RT @OstapYarysh: ‼️Zelenskyy at the presser in Turkey: "If there is no ceasefire, no bilateral meetings, we are asking for sanctions to end…
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov: "Putin has no plans to travel to Turkey at the present moment." (some wiggle room in that comment). https://t.co/56xMYi07aW