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FEATURED NEWS STORIES
Iran Ceasefire in Jeopardy Amid Hormuz Standoff
Iran And US Trade Threats to Seize Ships as Ceasefire Nears End
Crisis Vector
Kazem Jalali: ‘We Have an Iron Will’
Diplomacy on the Market
US-Iran Talks Run Aground
Chernobyl 40 Years Later: Fallout From the Past
Unknown Radioactive Element
Senseless Heroics: Roman Perl on how the Chernobyl Disaster Was Reinvented as a Convenient Myth
Public Pans Telegram Ban
Third Wheel
How Internet Censorship Weakens Dictators’ Power (FREE content)
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Political Parties/Blocs
Communists Not Permitted to Hold Mass Street Protests
Garmonenko: Regional Authorities Risk Backlash as They Cancel RFCP Rallies for Lenin’s Birthday
The Economy
Flight to Cash Accelerates: Why Are Russians Withdrawing Cash From Their Bank Accounts on a Mass Scale?
Blant: ‘Bad News’ for Russian Banks, Tax Collectors as Public Withdraws Record Amounts of Cash
Elections
Former State Duma Deputy Boris Nadezhdin Launches Campaign
Experts: New Election Campaign by Now-Bankrupt Ex-Candidate Nadezhdin Unlikely to Yield Results
State and Law
It’s All About the Young Pioneer Scarf
Head of Eksmo Publishing House Arrested as LGBT Extremism Case Gathers Steam
OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES
The CIS
Russians Highly Value Stability of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Poll: 75% of Russians View Belarus as Model of Stability, Followed by Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Foreign Economic Relations
The Pipes Are Calling
Druzhba Pipeline Gas Flows After Orban’s Ouster; Russian Officials Eye Changes in Export Strategy
China
Trump Can’t Avoid Dispute With China Over Taiwan
Skosyrev: Trump Will Need to Explain Taiwan Arms Deal to Xi During High-Pressure May Meeting