Letter From the Editors

FEATURED NEWS STORIES

Are Moscow’s Security Proposals a Nonstarter? (Read an article from this feature online for FREE)

Putin Gives 2021 Year-End Press Conference

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Regions

Regional Verticals
State Duma Passes Public Governance Law Further Consolidating Federal Power

North Caucasus

Kremlin V. Russia
Sokolov: Ruling in ‘Ingush Case’ Proof of Russia’s ‘Institutional Collapse’

Medicine/Public Health

European Businesses Fight Against Russia’s ‘Drastic’ Health Checks Law
Business Associations Angered by New Law on Health Checks for Foreign Workers

OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES

Belarus

Lukashenko’s Main Rival Gets 18 Years
2020 Opposition Presidential Candidates Jailed in What Experts Call Lukashenko’s ‘Revenge’

Lukashenko With a Grenade
Felgengauer: Russian Generals Likely to Dismiss Lukashenko’s Nuclear Request

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

World Politics

Nonalarmist Outlook for 2022
Kortunov: Russia Has Ample Opportunities for  Foreign Policy Wins in 2022

Military Alliances

Europe As Seen From Across the Ocean
Lukyanov: Priority of NATO Alliance in Doubt as US Shifts Focus to Asia

China

Close, But Not Too Close – or Even That Close at All
Experts: Russia, China Unlikely to Establish Alliance Following Talks