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Letter From the EditorsDemocracy May Be the Worst Form of Government – But What’s the Worst Form of Democracy? FEATURED NEWS STORIES Ukraine Reform Stalls Is Kremlin Setting Up Early Presidential Race? How Carefully Do You Read the CDRP? THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Politics Inconvenient Truth Lies Behind Putin’s War TalkSukhov: Putin’s Promise of 40 More […]
Letter From the EditorsPutin Courts the European Media; Poroshenko Survives First Year in Office; and Igor Strelkov Prepares for His Close-Up FEATURED NEWS STORIES Ukrainian Settlement Process Comes Undone Can Russia Save Face in Ukraine Crisis? THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Politics Hearing the Donetsk Basin: Who Will Be the Deputy from Novorossia in the Next State […]
Letter From the EditorsWhen Is a Russian Soldier Not a Russian Soldier? FEATURED NEWS STORIES Heavy Fighting Breaks Out Near Donetsk Russian Blacklist of EU Officials Made Public THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION The Economy Kudrin’s ProgramAleksei Kudrin Criticizes Government for Failing to Implement Reforms, Offers Economic Growth Plan Military Affairs Russia’s Mistral Deal Was Sunk from […]
Letter From the EditorsWhen Is a Russian Soldier Not a Russian Soldier? FEATURED NEWS STORIES Are Renewed Hostilities Inevitable in Donetsk Basin? Captured Russian Soldiers to Stand Trial How Carefully Do You Read the CDRP? THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION State and Law Why Was Decree on State Secrets Rewritten?Changes to Law on State Secrets Makes Information […]
Letter From the EditorsTruth Is Stranger Than Fiction: Ukraine Finds Its Propaganda Trump Card, the Russian Elite Find Themselves in a Quandary FEATURED NEWS STORIES Kiev Ups Diplomatic Ante with Prisoners, Missiles EU and Russia: Partners or Competitors? THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Politics Divide and RuleGuriyev: As Economy Deteriorates, Elite Must Decide Whether to Remain Loyal […]
WORLD ISSUES The UN as a Mirror of the Turbulent WorldGennady Gatilov Russia, China and the New World OrderM. Titarenko, V. Petrovsky Doomed PolicyK. Brutenz The 2015 General Elections in the UKE. Ananieva Shanghai Cooperation Organization Looking Toward EnlargementD. Litskay EDITOR-IN-CHIEF’S COLUMN The Soviet Union, United States and United Kingdom: A Step Away From Global […]
Letter From the EditorsVictory Day 2015: More Than the Usual Pomp Amid Not Quite the Usual Circumstances FEATURED NEWS STORIES Russia Marks 70th Anniversary of WWII Victory Chinese President Xi Jinping Visits Russia, CIS THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Chechnya Will Moscow Allow Polygamy in Chechnya?Bovt: Getting Chechnya to Fully Comply with Russian Laws More Difficult Than […]
THE WORLD is changing fast; it is changing by leaps and bounds which makes it next to impossible to explain what is going on and to foresee possible repercussions. An unsophisticated observer in the West and elsewhere in the world where Western propaganda is heard and believed might imagine that the forces of freedom and democracy are waging an uncompromising struggle against despotism and tyranny (in the widest sense of the terms).
Letter From the EditorsKnow Thy Enemy (and Thy Friend): Recovery, Détente and Protection in Russia and the CIS FEATURED NEWS STORIES Ukraine Grapples With Growing Economic Woes Is There Hope for Common Russian-U.S. Agenda? THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Politics Empty SeatsYunanov/Davydov: Victory Day Parade Intended to Showcase Russia’s Power, Independence The ‘President’ Agenda: How Putin Will […]
The author takes on China’s economic diplomacy, a key area of that country’s foreign policy in the 21st century that includes economic rewards and coercion.