LETTER FROM THE EDITORS

Ciao, 2020!

FEATURED NEWS STORIES

Putin Gives Annual Year-End Press Conference

New Facts Emerge in Navalny Poisoning

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

The Presidency

Travin: Putin Regime Has Taken Four Distinct Forms in Last 20 Years (read this article for free online)

Politics

Duma Bill Steps Up Fines for Internet Companies That Fail to Comply With RF Content Restrictions

State and Law

Constitutional Court Rules Russia Not Obligated to Pay Compensation on The Hague’s Yukos Ruling

Military Affairs

General Staff Chief Gerasimov: NATO Stepping Up Activity Near Russia’s Borders

Chechnya

Kadyrov, His Close Associates, Chechen Sports Now Subject to US Sanctions

Human Rights

Pikhovkin: Creating a Human Rights Court Won’t Solve Judiciary System’s Endemic Problems

OTHER POST-SOVIET STATES

Belarus

Khodasevich: Belarussian Authorities Signaling They Plan to Make Good on Vow to Punish All Protestors

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan Up in Arms Over Russian Officials’ Remarks That It Should Return Land to Russia

Polovinko: Kremlin’s Silence When Officials Parrot Imperialist Rhetoric Stirs Strife in Former USSR

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

United States

Panov: START Talks Essentially Frozen Until New US Administration Takes Office

Vedomosti: Trump Trying to Play ‘China Card’ in SolarWinds Hacking Scandal