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Election Drama

FEATURED NEWS STORIES

Protest Rallies Continue to Sweep Across Belarus

Europe, Russia React to Events in Belarus

Confusion Over Comatose Aleksei Navalny

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Politics

Putin Expresses Hope That Russia Will Avoid Second Wave of COVID, Make Economic Recovery

Petrov: If Kremlin Tries Too Hard to Save Lukashenko, It May Lose Belarus

Military Affairs

Defense Ministry Proposes Classifying Certain Data on Military Weapons, Transactions

OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES

Ukraine

Ukraine’s First President Replaces Second President as Kiev’s Representative at Donetsk Settlement Talks

Another ‘Normandy Four’ Summit Unlikely as Lower-Level Meeting Canceled Following Disagreements

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

World Politics

Washington Activates JCPOA Snapback Mechanism to Reinstate Sanctions on Iran

Russian Deputy Security Council Secretary Discusses Moscow’s Cyber Intelligence Operations

Arms Control and Nonproliferation

US Insisting on a Binding Framework Agreement as Precondition to New Arms Limitation Talks

United States

Sigov: US Electoral Process Not Truly Democratic, Since Political Elites Essentially Select Candidates (Read this article for free)