Letter From the Editors
All Right, That’s Settled! – Or Is It? The Winding Road From Donetsk to Damascus
FEATURED NEWS STORIES
Will Russia Get Bogged Down in Syria?
Secret ‘Normandy Four’ Negotiations Go Public
How Carefully Do You Read the CDRP?
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Politics
War and Prison
Rogov: Balance of Power Among Elite Has Shifted Against Former ‘Untouchables’
On the Road to Donetscus
Davydov: Russia’s Anti-ISIS Campaign Now Trumps Donetsk Basin as Leading TV Propaganda Story
State and Law
Grab and Run
Vedomosti: Decision to Make National Real Estate Registry Data Covers Corruption
OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES
Belarus
A Base? Never Heard of It: How Lukashenko Told Moscow ‘No.’
Lukashenko Denies Existence of Deal to Station Russian Air Base in His Country
Georgia
Bidzina Ivanishvili Targeted for Assassination
Former Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili Purportedly Targeted for Assassination
Moldova
Protest Movement Growing in Moldova
Ruling Coalition Faces Grim Prospects as Western Support Wanes
Tajikistan
War or Dictatorship: How Rakhmon’s Reign Will End for Tajiks
Tishchenko: Does Elimination of President Rakhmon’s IRPT Rivals Mean He Has Free Hand?
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Turkey
Russia-Turkey Ties Fray Over Syria
Amos: Russian-Turkish Ties Tested Following Russian Air Strikes in Syria
Europe
The Weak Elements of a Common Europe
Gulina: Europe’s Migrant Crisis Driving Wedge Between Old Europe, Eastern Europe