Letter From the Editors
Speaker Naryshkin plays Nostradamus; the PGO travels back in time – and finds the Crimea
FEATURED NEWS STORIES
Kiev, Separatists Exchange Ultimatums
Russian Prosecutors Revisit Soviet-Era Decisions
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Politics
‘We Are Not the Mafia – We Are a Junta.’
New Times: Putin Hardliners Seeking to Secure Power After Crimea Venture Split the Elite
Russia’s Top Brass Preparing to Battle Dissent
Golts: Russian Defense Ministry Studying Ways to Identify, Neutralize Domestic Enemies
State and Law
Incident Site
Supreme Court Upholds Moscow City Court’s Verdict in Anna Politkovskaya Murder Trial
Leonid Melamed as Yevgenia Vasilyeva: Will They Come for Chubais?
Stanovaya: Criminal Case Against Chubais Associate Designed to Put Rosnano Head on Notice
North Caucasus
Russia’s Disunity Makes It Vulnerable to ISIS
Sukhov: ISIS Leaders Declare North Caucasus Part of Islamic State
OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES
Armenia
Yerevan Shows Fragility of Post-Soviet Regimes
Ryzhkov: Armenian Protests Demonstrate Fragility of Post-Soviet Authoritarian Regimes
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
World Politics
Democracy for Puppets
Naryshkin: EU Could Learn from EAEU
Foreign Economic Relations
The Oil Curtain: Why Foreigners Are Pulling out of Joint Projects with Russia
Milov: Putin’s Cooperation Model With International Oil, Gas Companies a Failure
Europe
Remembering Everyone
PACE Resolution on Missing Persons in Ukraine Draws Russia’s Ire
Finland
Speaker Non Grata
Russian Delegation Abandons OSCE Session After Helsinki Denies Entry to Six Russian Deputies
Greece
Chorus, on State!
Lukyanov: Greek Crisis Shows Rashness of Unions Based on Political, Not Economic Consideration
United States
An American President for Moscow
Fenenko: Russian-US Relations Have Fared Better with a Republican in the White House