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THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Human Rights
Status Check
Kremlin, Duma to Take Action Against Torture, Reform Foreign Agent Law
Chechnya
‘We Will Pursue You Until We Cut Off Your Heads’
Chechen Authorities Pursue Telegram Journalist’s Family with Rally, Threats, Arrests
‘Kadyrov Feels Like the Absolute Master of All Chechens’
Kalyapin: Petulant Kadyrov Lashing Out at Modern World Beyond His Control
Medicine/Public Health
Obscurantism as Policy: Demographer Aleksei Raksha on the Reasons for Russia’s Record Population Decline
Demographer Raksha: Government Mishandling of COVID a Demographic Disaster for Russia
OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES
The Baltics
Putin ‘Thinks Estonia Is His Sphere of Influence; How Are We Supposed to Respond to That?’: What Life Looks Like in One of The Most Successful Former Soviet Republics
Veedla: Russia and Estonia Could be Friendly Neighbors If Not for Putin’s Soviet Ambitions
Belarus
Lukashenko No Longer Promising the People Stability
Lukashenko Talks Defense Spending, New People’s People’s Assembly, Expropriation From Enemies
Kazakhstan
Month of Total Transition
Atasuntsev: Nazarbayev Clan Loses Power, Wealth in Wake of January Protests
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
World Politics
Listen! Listen Carefully
Putin, Orban Hold Talks, Discuss Situation Around Ukraine, Gas and Vaccine Deliveries to Hungary