Trump has no objection as Putin rescues Syria’s blood-soaked regime.
Under increasing political and social pressure, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov reminds the Kremlin how much it needs him with careful suggestions that he could resign.
https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/russia-chechnyas-president-threatens-kremlin-undying-loyalty
The Russian president’s opponent of choice is a thirtysomething feminist. Why?
https://www.ft.com/content/2ab30a6c-d128-11e7-b781-794ce08b24dc
Medien in Russland, die Geld aus dem Ausland bekommen, gelten jetzt als Agenten. Wenn sie ihre Arbeit einstellen, bleibt noch Russia Today.
http://www.taz.de/Kommentar-Gesetz-gegen-Agenten/!5462680/
Russia to choose successor to former Islamist rebel who has been accused by human rights bodies of arbitrary arrests and torture of opponents
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/27/chechen-leader-ramzan-kadyrov-ready-to-step-down
https://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/articles/2017/11/27/743160-sovet-evropi-sanktsii
http://nv.ua/opinion/ogryzko/kremlevskaja-bolezn-evropejskih-politikov-2277408.html
https://www.inopressa.ru/article/27Nov2017/bloomberg/mos_opposit.html