Letter From the Editors
Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction: Ukraine Finds Its Propaganda Trump Card, the Russian Elite Find Themselves in a Quandary

FEATURED NEWS STORIES

Kiev Ups Diplomatic Ante with Prisoners, Missiles

EU and Russia: Partners or Competitors?

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Politics

Divide and Rule
Guriyev: As Economy Deteriorates, Elite Must Decide Whether to Remain Loyal to Putin, Revolt or Flee

Putin’s Undesirable Enemies: Who Are They?
Stanovaya: ‘Law on Undesirable Organizations’ the Latest Attempt to Squelch Threats to Putin’s Power

Mikhail Kasyanov May Face Treason Charge
State Duma Deputy Seeks IC Investigation into Former PM Mikhail Kasyanov’s Recent US Visit

Regions

Quote of the Week
Crimean Prosecutor Warns Tatars Against Provoking Disturbances During Remembrance of Deportation

OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES

Georgia

Tbilisi Casts (off) Glance at EAEU
Polling Data Show Growing Support for Closer Ties with EAEU

Transnistria

Ukraine Closes Military Transit to Transnistria
Ukraine Closes Its Territory to Transit of Russian Soldiers, Military Supplies to Transnistria

Ukraine

Debt Cancellation
Ukrainian Parliament Votes to Place Moratorium on Foreign Debt Payments

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

World Politics

Moscow Will Not Let Balance Get Tilted
Russia Says It May Have to Start Building Up Its Nuclear Arsenal

Moscow Opposes Brussels’s Mediterranean Naval Mission
Russia Balks at Proposed European Plan to Fight Illegal Migration Militarily

China

Man with the Yuan
Butrin: Russia’s Financial Salvation Could Lie in Joining China’s Bloc of Economic Satellites

Iraq

Russia, U.S. Strengthening Iraq’s Military Might
Baghdad Seeks Military Equipment from Russia

Macedonia

Why the West Is Punishing Macedonia
Markov: West Seeking to Foment ‘Color Revolution’ in Macedonia to Pursue Its Geopolitical Objective