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FEATURED NEWS STORIES

Post-Karabakh Reality Sets In
Yerevan Insists on Replacing Russian Peacekeepers
Artsakh Has Surrendered. Now What? (FREE content!)
Ruben Vardanyan, Former State Minister of Breakaway Artsakh Republic Dismantled by Baku, Arrested While Trying to Leave Nagorno-Karabakh
Azerbaijan Instigates Peace

C5+1 Summit Builds Central Asia’s Western Ties
America’s Steppe Front
Washington Shows White Horseshoe Club Carrot and Stick
Uranium Interests EU in Central Asia

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

The Economy
For Lack of a Better Option
Izvestia: Low Wages, Unstable Employment Create ‘Market Poverty’ in Russia

State and Law
Valery Zorkin Gets Seventh Term
New Class of Senators That Includes Reps From ‘Reunited’ Regions Joins Federation Council

Foreign Agents: From Spies to Traitors
NG: Poll Shows Russians’ Attitudes Toward ‘Foreign Agents’ Have Shifted

OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES

Armenia
Endgame for Pashinyan?
Epstein: Coalition of Domestic Opposition, Artsakh Refugees, Kremlin Could Now Topple Pashinyan

Belarus
Wagner’s Belarussian Tour Wrapping Up
Experts: Lukashenko Sends Wagner Home, Marking Limits of Ambitions, But Also of Russian Influence

Ukraine
Grain From Ukraine Like American Gas for Europe
Prikhodko: Fallout From East European Grain Bans Continues; Experts See Hand of US Agribusiness

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Afghanistan
Peace Through Persuasion
Participants of Moscow Negotiations Unsatisfied With Taliban’s Progress on Inclusivity, Human Rights

Europe
‘It’s More Important for Me to Address The Problem Now so That People Who Come on Humanitarian Visas Are Not Bullied’
EP Deputy Lagodinsky: EU Needs Clearer Sanctions Policy to Avoid Persecution of Russian Oppositionists

Poland
Electrician Who Short-Circuited Communist Poland
Walesa at 80: Izvestia Looks at Solidarity Founder’s Profound Legacy for Poland, Russia, Europe