Letter From the Editors

FEATURED NEWS STORIES

Putin Makes Annual Speech to Federal Assembly

China Floats Russia-Ukraine Peace Plan

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Military Affairs

Why the Kremlin Is Destroying New START Treaty (read this article online for FREE)
Golts: Putin’s Withdrawal From New START Not a Resumption of the Arms Race But a Smoke Screen

Regions

Governor Kuivashev Calls Prigozhin’s Interference in Region Affairs ‘Outrageous’
Sverdlovsk Province Governor to Wagner PMC Head Prigozhin: Stay Out of Region’s Politics

OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES

The CIS

‘Moldova Has Been Actively Militarizing Since Last Year’
Transnistrian FM: Altering Peacekeeping Mission Only Possible After Final Settlement With Chisinau

Ukraine

Looking at What He Had Wrought
Dulman: Nine Years After Maidan Shootings, Biden – Now President – Returns to ‘Scene of the Crime’

‘American Hearts Bleed for Ukraine, But We Also Bleed for All Russian Families Affected by This War’
Victoria Nuland Discusses New START, War Losses, Alliances, Sanctions With Novaya Gazeta Europe

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Foreign Economic Relations

Economists Reveal Inner Workings of Western Sanctions Mechanisms
Diamond, Nuclear Industries Unlikely to Be Part of Latest EU Package of Anti-Russia Sanctions

Turkey

Crumbling Scenery: Will Erdogan Lose Power Because of the Earthquake in Turkey?
Krivosheyev: Earthquake Creates Uncertainty for Upcoming Presidential, Parliamentary Elections

Trapped in Putin’s Embrace: Erdogan’s Russian Dilemma
Stankovic: ‘Friendly’ Ties With Putin Are Becoming a Liability for Erdogan