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Seeking Legitimacy at Home and Abroad

FEATURED NEWS STORIES

Armenian PM Faces Off With Top Brass

Sanctions Signal Shift in East-West Relations

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Politics

Putin to FSB: Watch Out for Foreign Plotting, Election Meddling

Citing Concern for Children, Putin Eyes New Internet Restrictions

Yablokov: Kremlin’s Penchant for Conspiracy Theories Now Undermining Vaccination Campaign

Military Affairs

Russia’s 2020 Military Exports Fall Overall, but Aircraft Exports Increase

Public Attitudes

ARCSPO’s Fyodorov Discusses How Russians See Duma Elections, COVID, Foreign Leaders

OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES

Belarus

Putin, Lukashenko Talk Vaccine, Pandemic’s Economic Impact on Russia-Belarus Relations

Minsk, Moscow Flirt With Alliance Again in Sochi Talks

Ukraine

Tokarev: As War Drags on, DPR Residents Express Complex Feelings About Russia, Ukraine

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

World Politics

Frolov: Biden Fails to Recruit Berlin, Paris Into Anti-Russia Coalition at Munich Security Conference  (Read article online for FREE)

Rudkevich: Amnesty’s Navalny Walk-Back Endangers Political Prisoners

Europe

Arbatova: No Reset Coming in Russia-EU Relations, but Economic Ties Will Remain