Letter From the Editors
Truth Is Stranger Than Reality TV – Who Will Be the ‘Survivor’ of Geopolitics?
FEATURED NEWS STORIES
Lavrov, Kerry Broker New Ceasefire in Syria
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Politics
Foreign Enemy Is Already Inside: How the State Is Unmasking Itself
Besieged Fortress Mentality Promoted by Regime Could Be Its Undoing
The Presidency
President Wanted
Khodorkovsky Launches Online Project to Nominate Alternative Candidate for 2018 Presidential Election
Elections
“The Deputies of the Seventh Duma Will Be the Pallbearers of the Regime”
Next Duma Convocation Will Find Itself at Epicenter of a Political Crisis
The Economy
No Pressure to Fix the Economy
Crisis in Russian Economy Spurred in Part by a Lack of Political Competition
Crime
Undercover Millionaire
Internal Affairs Ministry Colonel Arrested on Mass Bribery Allegations
OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES
Belarus
“I Don’t Trade in Friendship With Russia”
Lukashenko Reflects on His Role as President, Minsk’s Relations With Moscow, EU
Ukraine
Kiev Told “Enough Is Enough”?
Are Western Countries Stepping Up Pressure on Kiev to Make Headway on Minsk Agreements?
Uzbekistan
Country in Midstream
Acting Uzbek President Bent on Securing Valuable Business, Political Assets
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
World Politics
Russia Threatened by Three New Power Centers
Think Tank Predicts Russia Will Face Threats From TTIP, TPP, Silk Road
Foreign Policy
It’s Much Harder to Make Peace Between Friends
Dagestani Leader Reveals Details of Russian-Turkish Reconciliation
China
Against “Color Revolutions”
Russian-Chinese Security Cooperation Based on Strong Opposition to ‘Color Revolutions’
Middle East
The Middle East’s New Peacemaker
Russia Trying Its Hand at Resolving Israeli-Palestinian Conflict