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FEATURED NEWS STORIES     

Drones Downed Over Poland
Pilotless Project
Zelensky Offers to Help Warsaw Combat Drones
‘Downed Drones Are a Signal to Russia and Other NATO Countries’

Russians Feeling Pinch From High Inflation
Russians’ Real Disposable Incomes Are Falling (FREE content)
Till Debt Do Us Part

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION    

Politics           

‘We Have the Power Here, Don’t We?’
Meduza: Only Fringe Left-Wing Groups Allowed to Hold Rallies Over Messaging App Restrictions

Messenger App Topic Pushed to Political Margins
NG: By Dissuading Parliamentary Party Protests, Kremlin Makes Messenger Restrictions Fringe Issue

The Economy

Once Bitten, Twice Shy
The Economy Novaya: Don’t Expect ‘Big Return’ of Western Companies to Russian Market Despite Thaw

Military Affairs        

New Drones Take Flight
KZ: Developers Unveil Archangel Interceptor Drones

Far East        

Aleksei Chekunkov: ‘Our Advantage Is That We Have Plenty of Natural Resources’
Minister Chekunkov: Russian Far East No Longer Seen as Backwater, But as Land of Opportunity

OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES

Belarus          

Minsk-Washington Relations Rapidly Improving
US Special Envoy Meets With Lukashenko to Discuss Sanctions, Political Prisoners

Kazakhstan   

Tokayev Proposes Unicameral Parliament and Lays Ground for Transfer of Power
Tokayev Announces Plans for Unicameral Parliament in Annual Address to Nation

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS      

World Politics           

Baltic Sea as Arena for Undeclared Hybrid War
Patrushev: Nord Stream Explosions Clearly Work of Western Special Services, Not Ukraine

Turkey          

The Situation Is Calcifying
Izvestia: Turkey’s Ruling Party Working to Split Opposition Ahead of 2028 Presidential Election