Letter From the Editors
When Is a Russian Soldier Not a Russian Soldier?
FEATURED NEWS STORIES
Are Renewed Hostilities Inevitable in Donetsk Basin?
Captured Russian Soldiers to Stand Trial
How Carefully Do You Read the CDRP?
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
State and Law
Why Was Decree on State Secrets Rewritten?
Changes to Law on State Secrets Makes Information about Peacetime Deaths of Soldiers Classified
Science
Death of Dynasty Foundation Would Deal Major Blow to Russian Science
Justice Ministry Adds Leading Scientific Foundation to Its List of ‘Foreign Agents’
OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES
Kazakhstan
Why German Gref Envies Nursultan Nazarbayev
Dubnov: As Russia Withdraws into Global Isolation, Kazakhstan Seeking Greater Global Integration
Moldova
Moscow Preparing for Active Defense in Transnistria
Mukhin: Russia Preparing Responses to West’s Possible Destabilization of Transnistria Conflict
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Poland
Poland’s Drift and Europe’s Prospects
Lukyanov: New Polish President May Chart More Anti-Russian, Euroskeptic Course for Country
Central Asia
Afghan Insurgency Spreading North
Bobkin: ISIS Could Become Greater Threat to Russia If Allowed to Gain Foothold in Afghanistan
Miscellany
FIFA – Gate: What Has the American ‘Mole’ Dug up on Russia?
Stanovaya: Russia Will Use FIFA Scandal to Fuel Its US Boogeyman Narrative