Letter From the Editors
Liberals in Russia: An Endangered Species in Need of Conservation?
FEATURED NEWS STORIES
Looming Elections Bring Talk of Economic Reform
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Politics
Dirty Secrets: How the Government Is Trying to Take Away Our Right to Remember
Ukraine Opens Chernobyl Archives, but Russian Government Still Suppressing the Truth
The Government
Russia Talks Public Service Reform: A Fig Leaf for Real Change
Latest Government Reforms Only a Fig Leaf to Cover Lack of Public Accountability
Political Parties/Blocs
Fall From Parnassus
Major Opposition Parties Leave RPR/PFP Campaign
Military Affairs
Defense Ministry Attempts to Cast a Spell Against Global Evil
US Snubs Moscow Security Conference, Setting Back Joint Efforts to Fight Terrorism
Extremism
The Crimea Without the Majlis
Crimean Supreme Court Rules Majlis an Extremist Organization
Human Rights
System Defense
Appointment of Internal Affairs General as Human Rights Ombudsman a Disgrace
Space
Vostochny Off to a Bad Start: The Troubled Cosmodrome’s History
First Scheduled Launch at Troubled Vostochny Cosmodrome Scrubbed
OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES
Belarus
Political Jabs: Why Lukashenko Flirts With Russia’s Enemies
Lukashenko Continuing to Reap Dividends by Playing Russia, West Off Each Other
Uzbekistan
Putin, Karimov to Create an Antiterrorist Coalition
Russia Seeking to Bolster Ties With Uzbekistan to Reassert Its Influence in Central Asia
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Foreign Economic Relations
Fire in the Offshores
Panama Papers Suggest Rossian Bank Handles Shady Financial Operations for Russian Elite
Military Alliances
Can Russia, NATO Agree on Anything?
NATO-Russia Council Meeting Does Little To Change Current Impasse in Relations
Serbia
How Serbia Is Teetering Between NATO, Russia
Serbia Straddling the Fence Between NATO, Russia but Will Eventually Have to Make a Choice
Iran
Islamic Investment Guard Corps
Russian Companies Face a Disadvantage on Newly Opened Iranian Market
Syria
Syria in Half
Moscow Dismisses Washington’s Plan to Assign Areas of Russian, US Responsibility in Syria