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No Clear Goals as War Enters Week Eight
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
The Economy
Chronicles of State Capitalism: ‘Thus Triggering Degradation and Disintegration’
Karasyuk: Russian Government Begins to Acknowledge Impact of Economic Isolation
Nabiullina to Stay on, Interest Rate to Come Down, Structural Reforms to Kick Off: The Central Bank Presents Its Annual Report in the State Duma
Nabiullina Slashes Interest Rates Ahead of Report, Warns of Need for ‘Perestroika’
Political Parties/Blocs
Communists Show Kremlin Red Flag
Kalachov: RFCP May Try to Turn Socioeconomic Woes to Its Advantage
Party Leadership Charter
LDPR Stalwarts Move to Bar Party Newcomers From Leadership in Wake of Zhirinovsky’s Death
Regions
‘I Think Europeans Are Smart Enough Not To Do Anything Suicidal’
Kaliningrad Head Alikhanov: Region Prepared to Face Down NATO Aggression
Public Attitudes
Denazification and Public Opinion
NG: In Opinion Polling on Ukraine War Goals, Public Tells Authorities What They Want to Hear
OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES
The CIS
Meet the Neighbors: How Central Asia and South Caucasus Are Reacting to Special Operation in Ukraine (Read this article online for FREE)
Gasymov: Post-Soviet States Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place in Russia-West Standoff
Interstate Relations
A Movable Peace
Armenia’s Pashinyan Meets With Putin in Moscow, Signs Cooperation Agreements
Fergana Valley on Brink of War
Trifonof: Tajikistan’s Rakhmon May See Clashes With Kyrgyzstan Over Vorukh Region as Opportunity
Moldova
Moldova Being Drawn Into Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Auditing Dispute Spells Trouble for Russia-Moldova Gas Supplies, Transnistrian Security
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Military Alliances
Nato Approaches From the North
Golts: Finland, Sweden Joining NATO Would Create Major Security Headache for Russia
Germany
The New German Guilt
Vachedin: Russia’s Ukraine Aggression Puts Berlin’s Pacific Policies on the Spot