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Letter From the EditorsMissile Matchup, Troop Buildup, Media Shakeup, Propaganda Pick-Me-Up, Putin Wake-Up FEATURED NEWS STORIES Can Putin, Abe Resolve Russian-Japanese Differences? Poroshenko Increasingly at Odds With Rada, West THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Politics Revolution or Coup: What Putin Is Really Afraid OfPutin No Longer Fears Mass Revolt – He’s More Wary of the Elite Emotional […]

Letter From the EditorsLiberals 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 […]

Letter From the EditorsNavalny Takes on the CEC; Russia Ups the Ante With Antics Over the Baltic; and a Possible Homecoming for Savchenko FEATURED NEWS STORIES Russia Pushes for Oil Cartel at OPEC Meeting Russian IC Head Draws Up Battle Plans THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Politics Person of the Week: Mikhail ProkhorovMikhail Prokhorov’s Onexim Offices Searched […]

Letter From the EditorsPutin Tones Down Foreign Policy Rhetoric; Fallout From Panama Papers Continues; Ukraine Gets New Cabinet; National Guard Sets Sights on Chechen Security Forces FEATURED NEWS STORIES Putin Strikes Conciliatory Tone in Call-In Show Russian Press, Officials React to Panama Papers Ukraine Gets New Prime Minister, Cabinet THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Politics Navalny Drawn […]

Letter From the EditorsIt’s Not All About Russia: Fonseca, Frozen Conflicts, Finance and Force FEATURED NEWS STORIES Panama Papers Leak Implicates Russian Ruling Elite Fighting Erupts in Nagorno-Karabakh THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION State and Law Late to the Search PartyInvestigative Committee Reports New Lead in First Yukos Case, but Is It Too Little, Too Late? A […]

Letter From the EditorsMove Over, Miss Universe – Putin, Poroshenko and Kadyrov Vie for the Spotlight. FEATURED NEWS STORIES West, Russia Step Up Confrontation Kiev Political Crisis Goes From Bad to Worse New Players Emerge in 2016 Duma Campaign THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION State and Law The Long Arm of the StateNew Laws Allow Russians, Foreigners […]

Letter From the EditorsRussia’s ‘Matryoshka’ Foreign Policy Doctrine: Distracting From One Problem by Creating Another FEATURED NEWS STORIES What’s Next for Russia in Syria? Will Savchenko Be Imprisoned or Exchanged? THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Politics Crimean BenchmarkSkorobogaty: Crimea Annexation Forever Altered Russia’s Society, Politics, Foreign Policy Pariah’s PathKunadze: Russia’s Foreign Policy Consists of Creating New Problems […]

Letter From the EditorsStep Aside, Old Guard – New Guard Is Stepping In FEATURED NEWS STORIES Putin Pulls Russian Troops Out of Syria Kiev Weighs Big Domestic, Foreign Policy Changes THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Politics More Than Just a MistakeRussia’s Crimea Annexation Set Country on Self-Destructive Path People’s Will Is TimelessReferendum on Preserving USSR Still Valid, […]

Letter From the EditorsB-list Celebrities: from Turkey and Saudi Arabia, to the New Ukrainian Gentry FEATURED NEWS STORIES What’s Behind Proposed Ukrainian Land Sale? Can Moscow, Washington Secure Syrian Ceasefire? THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Elections Elections Under ProtectionPutin Instructs FSB to Suppress Outside Attempts to Interfere in Upcoming State Duma Elections Chechnya The Dangers of Manual […]

Letter From the EditorsMatters of Consideration. FEATURED NEWS STORIES Russia, US Broker Syrian Ceasefire Questions Linger One Year After Nemtsov Murder THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION State and Law Why Didn’t You Run?Hobson: Domodedovo Owner Dmitry Kamenshchik Detained Under Politicized Charges Business as Usual and a Little PoliticsECHR Rules That Russian Trial of Navalny, Ofitserov Violated European […]