Letter From the Editors
Putin’s Message to the Federal Assembly: Rhetoric vs. Reality.
FEATURED NEWS STORIES
Putin Stresses Unity in National Address
Russian Counterstrike: Sanctions Against Turkey
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
State and Law
Constitution Abolished on First Reading
Reznik: Bill Enabling Constitutional Court to Disregard International Law an Outrage
Public Prosecutor’s Office Is Immortal
Anticorruption Fund Releases Report Tying Top PGO Officials to Corruption, Criminal Activity
The Economy
Truck Protests Signal New Kind of Social Activism
Kolotilov: Truckers Usher in Era of Protests by Those Hurt by Economic, Not Political, Initiatives
Everyone Should Be Bad Off: Why the Authorities Will Not Negotiate With Truckers
Kashin: Authorities Must Crack Down on Truckers’ Protest to Preserve Their No-Compromise Image
OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES
Interstate Relations
Minsk, BAKU Forming a Tandem
Could Azerbaijani, Belarussian Leaders Help Normalize Relations Between Turkey, Russia?
Transnistria
Russia’s Outpost on the Dnestr Showing Signs of Strain
Transnistria on Edge Following Election of Supreme Council That Is at Odds With President
Ukraine
Yatsenyuk, Poroshenko Want to End the Crimean Blackout
Kiev Seeking to Ensure Its Energy Security While Addressing Crimean Power Outage
Chinese Threatened With Prison for Electric Cable to the Crimea
Russia to Expedite Construction of Energy Bridge Connecting Crimea to Russian Power Grid
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
World Politics
Putin Is Late Again – This Time in Foreign Policy
Stanovaya: Putin Buffeted by Geopolitical Storms He Doesn’t Quite Know How to Weather
Imaginary Friends: Why Russia Has No More Allies
Kuznetsova: Russia Unwilling to Participate in Global Cooperation Formats in Which It Is Not a Leader
Military Alliances
The Elite Can Be Bought, The People – Never
Zhuravlyov: Russia Has Lost Montenegro to NATO Because It Failed to Effectively Engage Its People
Turkey
Turkish Stream Follow’s South Stream
Turkish Stream Gas Pipeline Project Halted