· July, 2014

Stories about Russia from July, 2014

Kiev Kowtows to Washington … on Twitter

RuNet Echo  5 July 2014

Ukraine's new foreign minister, Pavlo Klimkin, is in hot water on the Russian Internet today, where bloggers are drawing attention to his first subscriptions on Twitter. RuNet users have noticed that some of the first accounts Klimkin chose to follow are US politicians John McCain and Mitt Romney, the neoconservative American think...

The Perils of the Lunar Putin

RuNet Echo  1 July 2014

Aleksandr Dugin, a controversial Russian scholar, says he's lost his job at Moscow State University, claiming that the President's alter ego—the Lunar Putin—is to blame.