Letter From the Editors

FEATURED NEWS STORIES

Experts Assess Results of 2021 Duma Elections

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Politics

Is There Life After Elections? Three Reasons Why Repressions May Intensify After the Duma Campaign (Read this article online for FREE)
Stanovaya: Repressions Will Continue Even After Parliamentary Elections

Public Attitudes

How Russians Learned to Love the (Nuclear) Bomb
Poll: Majority of Russians, Even Younger Generation, Positively View Country’s Nuclear Arsenal

OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES

Interstate Relations

They Abandoned Their Watch
CSTO Summit Focuses on Aftermath of US Withdrawal From Afghanistan

Georgia

Tbilisi Ready to Gracefully Arrest Saakashvili
Tbilisi Vows to Arrest Saakashvili as Allies Prepare for His Return

Ukraine

War on Oligarchs Provokes Political Crisis in Ukraine
Zelensky Pushes Deoligarchization Through Rada Despite Deputies’ Reservations

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

World Politics

Chain Reaction of Chaos
Patrushev: US’s ‘Irresponsible’ Withdrawal From Afghanistan Leaves Region Vulnerable

Biden and the ‘Collective West’
Trenin: Free From Afghanistan, US Seeks to Unite Allies, Partners Against Russia, China

Afghanistan

Optimistic Tragedy, or How to Make Afghanistan a Normal Country
Kortunov: Progress Is Possible in Afghanistan if the Taliban Can Bring Stability

France

Paris Turns Away From Washington
Paris Licks Its Wounds Following Cancellation of Submarine Deal with Australia

Will France Leave Nato?
Taki: Can France Forge Its Own Foreign Policy Path, or Will It Run Back to NATO?

Germany

Russia in the Shadow of the Bundestag Elections
Belov: Outcome of Bundestag Election Will Directly Impact Germany-Russia Relations