Letter From the Editors (FREE content)
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