Masha Gessen on the Russian opposition journalist Arkady Babchenko, who faked his own assassination as part of a sting operation in coöperation with Ukranian law enforcement.
Vladimir Putin will have paid very close attention to the location of the Syrian artillery battery where four Russian soldiers lost their lives at the weekend. The desert around Deir ez-Zour remains a dangerous place – politically as well as physically – in which the Americans and Russians play an extremely risky game of war.
The front line with Russia has moved east. It makes sense for American forces to follow.
NATO isn’t providing the security the Polish government has long wanted. Warsaw is not sure the Trump administration will either.
https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/76462
https://theins.ru/perevody/104415
https://www.inopressa.ru/article/28May2018/nzz/afrika.html
https://www.inopressa.ru/article/28May2018/wp/putin4.html
https://www.inopressa.ru/article/28May2018/wp/nh17.html
Two MH17 Investigations point to Russia’s military.