In the seventy-fifth edition of the Russian Newspapers Monitor, Professor Filip Kovacevic discusses the articles from four Russian newspapers: Kommersant, Izvestia, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, and Komsomolskaya Pravda. He discusses the factors involved in a deadly fire in the Russian shopping mall in Kemerovo, Siberia. In addition, Professor Kovacevic looks at yet another engineered surge of anti-Russian hysteria in the U.S. and the major parts of the European Union, this time provoked by the Skripal incident. He also examines tense relations between two government owned gas and oil giants: the Russian Gazprom and the Ukrainian Neftogaz. Lastly, he tells the story of Viktor Makarov, a Soviet/Russian intelligence double agent who, just like Sergey Skripal, spied for the British MI-6 but was later so mistreated by the British government that he went on several public hunger strikes. Do not miss this exclusive edition of the Russian Newspaper Monitor!

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Show Notes

Kommersant – March 27, 2018

Izvestia – March 27, 2018

Nezavisimaya Gazeta – March 26, 2018

Komsomolskaya Pravda – March 23, 2018