LETTER FROM THE EDITORS

Moscow, EU Raise the Stakes, Josep Borrell Loses His Lunch, and the Duma Opposition May Lose Big Time

FEATURED NEWS STORIES

East-West Tensions Rise After Navalny Case

Russia’s Duma Opposition Split Over Navalny

Borrell Visits Moscow for Fraught Talks

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Politics

Klishin: Will Russian Authorities Follow Through on Threat to Shut Down Some Social Networks?

Pastukhov: Putin Regime Entering Its Most Brutal – and Final – Phase (Read this article online for FREE)

State and Law

CC Will No Longer Allow Independent Expert Legal Opinions on Court Cases

Space

Roskosmos Head Rogozin Says Russia Not Interested in ‘Race to the Moon’

OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES

Belarus

Mirzayan: Field Organizers and Youth, Not Exiles, Are Biggest Threat to Lukashenko

Lukashenko Banks on People’s Assembly to Shore Up Legitimacy After Protests

Ukraine

Zelensky Sanctions Opposition Lawmaker and Media, but Constitutionality of Move Is Questioned

Interview: OPL Leader Medvedchuk Calls Sanctions Unlawful, Zelensky Out of Touch

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Iran

Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Visits Moscow, Signals Tehran Ready to Join EaEU