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FEATURED NEWS STORIES
Trump-Xi Meeting Highlights Common Ground
Trade Pressure
Xi Jinping Asks About War With US During Donald Trump’s China Trip
What Will Donald Trump-Xi Jinping Talks Lead To?
New Status Quo (FREE content)
Very Big Two
Meaning of Victory Day Shifts Amid Ukraine War
It’s Not Too Late to Cure the Madness of Putin’s Victory Day
‘Even People I Know Are All Caught Up in the Propaganda’
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Politics
In Lieu of an Obituary: Sergei Yerzhenkov on Why the Anticorruption Foundation Did Not Survive the Death of Its Founder
Yerzhenkov: Anticorruption Foundation Has Forsaken Its Principle of ‘Don’t Lie, Don’t Steal’
Military Affairs
‘From Machine Guns and Automatic Rifles to Grenade Launchers’
NGE: Reasons for Española Unit’s Disbandment Unclear Following Arrests for Arms Trafficking
Highly Toxic People
Two Sentenced in Attempt to Poison Humanitarian Aid Bound for Russian Fighters in Ukraine
Society
‘Books Are at the Heart of Everything’
NGE: LGBT Bestseller ‘Summer in a Young Pioneer’s Scarf’ Remains Popular Despite Bans in Russia
OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES
Georgia
Can We Expect Pro-Moscow Policy From Patriarch Shio Iii?
Expert Koskello: Despite Outward Harmony, Tense Debates Over Russia Surround New Patriarch
Ukraine
Chained in Lockstep
Boikov: Investigation Inches Toward Zelensky as Top Aide Yermak Detained for Money-Laundering
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Europe
On the Possibility and Need For Russia-EU Talks
NG: High Level of Mistrust Between Russia, EU Spells Failure for Potential Talks on Ukraine
Iran
Weapons of Mass Exhaustion
Expert Sivkov: Born of Necessity, Cheap, Simple Shahed Drones Now Filling Sky, Changing Game
Global Economy Transforms Into ‘Bottleneck’
Experts: Iran Mulls Hormuz Strait Fiber-Optic Fees, Doubling Down on ‘Bottleneck Economy’ Risks