Democracy Dies in Darkness Sections Home Subscribe Username Sign In Account Profile Newsletters & Alerts Gift Subscriptions Contact Us Help Desk Subscribe Account Profile Newsletters & Alerts Gift Subscriptions Contact Us Help Desk Accessibility for screenreader DemocracyPost Opinion Opinion Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events by Anders Aslund by Anders Aslund March 29 at 12:12 PM Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on March 28. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP/Getty Images) Anders Aslund, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, is writing a book about Russia’s crony capitalism. British Prime Minister Theresa May’s initial response to the attack with a nerve agent in England was old-school. She expelled 23 Russian diplomats, allowing Moscow to expel the same number of … [Read more...] about It’s time to go after Vladimir Putin’s money in the West
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Vladimir Putin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov Compares Weinstein Accusers to ‘Prostitutes’
World Russia harvey weinstein Kremlin Sexual Harassment Crime in Russia Leonid Slutsky Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has broken his silence over the country's highest profile sexual harassment case, comparing Harvey Weinstein’s accusers to prostitutes in the process. Speaking at an event in the Higher School of Economics in Moscow on Thursday, the Kremlin press secretary waded into the debate about the behavior of one top lawmaker, who allegedly tried to kiss or suggestively touch three female journalists without their consent. Two of the three appeared before the parliament’s Ethics Commission to officially demand Leonid Slutsky is punished. The commission threw the case out in one sitting, and Peskov appeared to support that decision. Related: In Russia, journalists are boycotting parliament after lawmaker is cleared of sexual harassment in one sitting “This has less to do with the Ethics Commission … [Read more...] about Vladimir Putin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov Compares Weinstein Accusers to ‘Prostitutes’
North Korea, Facebook, Vladimir Putin: Your Wednesday Briefing
Supported by Briefing | Asia and Australia Edition 查看简体中文版 查看繁體中文版 By PENN BULLOCKMARCH 27, 2018 Continue reading the main story Share This Page Continue reading the main story (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.)Good morning. A surprise visit to Beijing, pressure mounts on Moscow, and a cosmetic surgeon specializes in fish. Here’s what you need to know:• An international debut.North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, met secretly with President Xi Jinping of China in Beijing. The surprise discussions came weeks before planned summit meetings with American and South Korean leaders.It was Mr. Kim’s first trip outside North Korea since taking power six years ago, and adds another layer of complexity to the rush of diplomacy around North Korea’s … [Read more...] about North Korea, Facebook, Vladimir Putin: Your Wednesday Briefing
Robinson: Trump’s biggest problem is not Robert Mueller, Stormy Daniels or Vladimir Putin
By E.J. Dionne Jr. | The Washington Post March 27, 2018 at 12:15 pm WASHINGTON — President Trump’s most urgent political problem doesn’t involve Robert Mueller, Stormy Daniels, Vladimir Putin or the hundreds of thousands of voters who marched for gun control. Rather, it’s that his diehard supporters might be starting to realize how thoroughly he has played them for suckers. On immigration, the issue that most viscerally connects the president with his thus-far-loyal base, Trump got basically nothing in the $1.3 trillion spending bill he signed Friday. The vaunted “big, beautiful wall” he pledges to build along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico? Trump got 25 miles’ worth of new wall, along with eight miles of new fencing. And the bill specifies that none of this tiny increment can be built using any of the prototype designs Trump so ostentatiously showed off. The threatened punishment for “sanctuary cities” that show … [Read more...] about Robinson: Trump’s biggest problem is not Robert Mueller, Stormy Daniels or Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin still safe from President Donald Trump’s ire
Expelling 60 Russian intelligence agents and diplomats from the United States, as President Donald Trump ordered Monday, was the right thing to do. It was necessary, but not sufficient. The expulsions paralleled similar actions by many of our allies — including Germany, France, Poland, Italy and Canada — to punish Russia for allegedly poisoning a former Russian spy in Britain. But this is all part of the Kabuki theater that is spycraft. The evictions were surely expected by Russian President Vladimir Putin. He surely will respond in a similar measure. Superpower spookdom surely will go on. Telling spies posing as diplomats to go home is not the same as imposing tough sanctions. And the message to Americans is mixed when it follows Trump’s personal call to Putin to congratulate the Russian strongman on his victory in a sham election — and Trump’s general reluctance to condemn Russia for meddling in the 2016 election. Congress expressed its concern over … [Read more...] about Vladimir Putin still safe from President Donald Trump’s ire