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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
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
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