Month: March 2018

Navalny’s St. Petersburg coordinator sent straight back to prison

By XSoviet on March 2, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

by Sarah Hurst Repressions against supporters of Alexei Navalny appear to be intensifying as the March 18 election approaches, with his campaign coordinator in St. Petersburg, Denis Mikhailov, being re-arrested today as he was about to come out of prison having served a 30-day sentence for his role […]

Putin displays his nuclear weapons

By XSoviet on March 1, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

by Sarah Hurst Russia’s military might is its crowning achievement, Vladimir Putin made clear today in his annual speech to the Federal Assembly, as he showed a series of videos of nuclear weapons and prototype weapons that he claimed have no parallel anywhere else in the world. The […]