Letter From the Editors
Navalny Takes on the CEC; Russia Ups the Ante With Antics Over the Baltic; and a Possible Homecoming for Savchenko
FEATURED NEWS STORIES
Russia Pushes for Oil Cartel at OPEC Meeting
Russian IC Head Draws Up Battle Plans
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Politics
Person of the Week: Mikhail Prokhorov
Mikhail Prokhorov’s Onexim Offices Searched for Evidence of Tax Evasion
Elections
CEC Is Not a Wizard
Anticorruption Fund Candidates Cite Voter Fraud, Pull Out of Barvikha Village Council Elections; CEC Invalidates Election Results
State and Law
Above Strasbourg
Constitutional Court Hands Down First Decision Allowing Russia Not to Enforce ECHR Rulings
The Economy
Doing the President’s Dirty Work
Putin Calls on Former Finance Minister Kudrin to Draw Up New Economic Plan for Russia
OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES
Interstate Relations
Baku Insists on Changing Status Quo in Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
Baku Presses Yerevan to Change Status Quo in Nagorno-Karabakh
Belarus
Lukashenko Does Not Want to Be a Lackey
Lukashenko Chides Russian Leadership for Treating Belarus Like a Lackey
Ukraine
Guilty and Ready to Exchange
Ukrainian Court Convicts Two Russians Captured Fighting for Lugansk People’s Republic
A Way Out for Savchenko
Kiev Says Savchenko May Soon Return to Ukraine Following Exchange for Two Convicted Russians
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
World Politics
Implications of the Dutch Court Ruling
Dutch Court Overturns Verdict Awarding $50 Billion to Yukos Shareholders
Military Affairs
Wings Over the Baltic
Close Calls Between Russian, US Forces in Baltic Sea Pushing Standoff to the Brink
Council Without Counsel
NATO-Russia Council Meeting Nothing but Empty Talk
Iran
Russia and Iran Compare Strategies
Russian-Iranian Relations Developing, but Not Without Tension
Turkey
Will Turkey Prevail Over the EU?
Turkey Playing Hardball With EU Over Refugee Crisis