In the forty-third edition of the Russian Newspapers Monitor, Professor Filip Kovacevic discusses the articles from four Russian newspapers: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Izvestia, Sovietskaya Rossiya, and Komsomolskaya Pravda. He discusses the biggest joint Russian-Belarussian military exercise in the last few years and how NATO is reacting to it as well as the most recent political developments in another potential geopolitical war zone in Eastern Europe, the state of Moldova. In addition, he provides the highlights of an exclusive interview with Leonid Ivashov, one of the foremost geopolitical experts in Russia, and examines the fate of Alexei Ulyukaev, the arrested former minister of economic development who might have played a role in the Western intelligence plot against the Russian president Vladimir Putin.

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Show Notes

Nezavisimaya Gazeta – August 16, 2017

Izvestia – August 15, 2017

Sovietskaya Rossiya – August 15, 2017

Komsomolskaya Pravda – August 17, 2017