FEATURED NEWS STORIES
Nuland Visits Moscow for High-Level Talks
What’s Behind Medvedev’s Ukraine Missive?
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
The Presidency
October Petitions
Putin Lays Out Priorities in Address to Newly Elected Duma Members
Political Parties/Blocs
Hot Potato
Meduza: How and Why Nearly One in Five Elected Delegates Gave Away Their Duma Seats
State and Law
‘Bortnikov’s Law.’
Duma to Lift Military Service Age Limits with FSB Chief Bortnikov in Mind
Medicine/Public Health
Chronicles of State Capitalism: ‘They Didn’t Get the Next Shot, And This Is the Result.’
Officials Frustrated by COVID Spike and Low Vaccination Rates as Sputnik V Turns One
Russia Shifts Into Accelerated Depopulation Mode
Worsening COVID Crisis Accelerates Russia’s Population Decline
OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES
Armenia
Moscow, Yerevan Will Study Who’s With Whom and Against Whom
PM Pashinyan Flies to Moscow to Discuss Bilateral, Regional Security Issues With Putin
Armenia Goes on Diplomatic Offensive
Kommersant: Baku-Tehran Tensions Give Yerevan an Opening to Bolster Positions in Caucasus
Ukraine
‘To Zelensky, We Are Scarier Than Devils.’
LPR Leader Pasechnik: Zelensky Wants to Create Impression That Ukraine Is at War With Russia
Political Misadventure
New Charges Filed Against Medvedchuk; Court Extends House Arrest
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Europe
The Taming of the Periphery (Read this article online for FREE)
Mezhuyev: Poland’s Démarche Shows ‘New Europe’ Feels Like Cultural Outsider in EU
Sanctioning Ambassador Poklonskaya
Sigov: Former Crimea Prosecutor Poklonskaya’s Envoy Appointment Fraught With Challenges
Military Affairs
War Outsourcing
Golts: Russian Private Military Companies Doomed to Remain ‘Legal Phantoms’
Military Alliances
Road to Nowhere
Stoltenberg Announces Expulsion of Members of Russia’s Permanent Mission to NATO