Letter From the Editors (FREE content)
FEATURED NEWS STORIES
Corruption Scheme Jolts Ukraine’s Energy Sector
Where the Broad Anticorruption Investigation in Ukraine Will Lead
Zelensky and Sviridenko Want Anticorruption Purge at Energy Companies
Taking It All in Stride
Friendly Punishments
Can Russia Salvage Trump Talks?
Erosion of Stability (FREE content)
Lavrov: ‘I Wouldn’t Conflate Nuclear Testing With the Budapest Summit’
Through the Thorns to the Stars and Stripes
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
State and Law
There Won’t Be Any Gathering Like That Anymore
Altai Republic Head Andrei Turchak Moves to Place Restrictions on Meetings Between Deputies, Voters
Society
How Russians Are Squeezing the Soviet Out of Themselves Drop by Drop
NG: Poll Shows Changing Civic Attitudes Among Russians, but Political System Remains Entrenched
Military Affairs
Pulling Out a Dagger
Izvestia: FSB Foils Western Plot to Hijack Fighter Jet Carrying Kinzhal Missile
Their Mission: To Help Restore Peace and Calm
KZ: North Korean Sappers Making Major Contribution to Mine Clearance in Kursk Province
The Media
‘Eating Their Own’
Meduza: Z Blogger Angers Kremlin With Comments About Akhmat Commander Apti Alaudinov
OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES
Armenia
Pashinyan Bets on U.S. President
Seleznyov: Pashinyan to Make TRIPP Centerpiece of Election Campaign, Claims Work ‘On Schedule’
Georgia
Georgian Prosecutor’s Office Accuses Ukraine of Plotting Coup
Prosecutors Go After Opposition for ‘Crimes Against the State,’ Allege Kiev’s Involvement
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan’s Leader Comes to Russia a Week After Visiting US
Experts: Astana Now ‘Coveted Bride’ As Shown by Tokayev’s Recent Dushanbe, Moscow, US Summits
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
World Politics
The Deep Freeze
Zhanna Nemtsova: New Initiative Seeks Sanctions Relief for Antiwar Middle-Class Russians in EU
United States
Secret Verdict
Experts: While Not Yet Legally Implicating Trump, Epstein Emails Likely to Upend US Politics