Letter From the Editors
It’s Not Whether You Win or Lose, It’s the Compulsion to Play the Game
FEATURED NEWS STORIES
Opposition Faces Trouble in Local Elections
Russia Adopts New Naval Doctrine
How Carefully Do You Read the CDRP?
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Politics
Conquering Food
Aptekar: Russia’s Decision to Destroy Banned Western Food Items a Senseless Provocation
State and Law
Brain Explosion
Latynina: Government Blaming Domodedovo Airport After 2011 Bombing for Failing to Do FSB’s Job
The Economy
Gazprom Suffering from Arrested Development
Serov: Gazprom’s Production Falling Far Behind Forecasts
Military Affairs
Defense Ministry Opens ‘Window’ to Space
ADF Bringing Next Generation Ground-Based Space Surveillance Network Online
OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES
Belarus
Lukashenko Doesn’t Fear This Kind of Opposition
Rift Emerges Within Belarussian Opposition Over 2016 Presidential Election Strategies
Ukraine
Ukraine Confused by Poroshenko’s Peace Plan
Ivzhenko: Poroshenko’s Latest Agreement With Separatists Met With Skepticism in Ukraine
EU Visits to Crimea Reflect Democracy, Not Divisions Over Russia, Say Analysts
European Lawmakers’ Visits to Crimea Anger Kiev
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
World Politics
A Tribunal at Any Cost
Russia Vetoes UN Security Council Resolution on International Tribunal to Investigate MH17
As If
Radzikhovsky: Cold War Rhetoric Distracting From Real Problems
‘A Third World War Would Be the Last One.’
Naryshkin: West Must Return to Basic Principles of International Law, Not Force Its Views on Others
Middle East
Platform Shift
Lukyanov: Islamic State Reshaping Middle East Landscape, Rebalancing Alignment of Forces