Letter From the Editors
Putin Tones Down Foreign Policy Rhetoric; Fallout From Panama Papers Continues; Ukraine Gets New Cabinet; National Guard Sets Sights on Chechen Security Forces
FEATURED NEWS STORIES
Putin Strikes Conciliatory Tone in Call-In Show
Russian Press, Officials React to Panama Papers
Ukraine Gets New Prime Minister, Cabinet
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Politics
Navalny Drawn Into Hybrid War
Aleksei Navalny Sues VGTRK for Film Depicting Him as Western Intelligence Agent
Regarding Navalny’s Murder of Magnitsky on MI-6 Servers in Ukraine
Latynina: VGTRK’s Allegations That Navalny Works for Western Intelligence Utterly Ludicrous
Military Affairs
Regiments Retire
Zaikin: National Guard Created Partly to Put Chechen Security Agencies Under Federal Control
OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES
The CIS
Don’t Bury the CIS Just Yet
Zharikhin: After 25 Years, CIS Still Relevant but in Need of a Makeover
Ukraine
The Dutch Debacle
Kiselyov: The Dutch Voted Down EU Association for Ukraine Because Current Events There Spook Them
Russia Brings Currency to Exchange Table
Polukhin: Savchenko’s Sentencing May Prompt POW Exchanges That Could Revive Minsk Talks
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
United Nations
Reckless Unilateral Gambits Will Bring No Good
Russia’s UN Ambassador Discusses Secretary-General Nominations, Events in Syria, Libya