MARCH 2019 | NO 1903

MIDDLE EAST

RUSSIA

Who wants what in Yemen’s long war

Houthi forces aren’t defeated and they aren’t going away. What will happen next? | PIERRE BERNIN ▶ p5

When the US swung Yeltsin’s election

Boris Yeltsin won in 1996 when the US lent its support in securing finance | HÉLÈNE RICHARD ▶ p6

EUROPE

How can we save the EU from itself?

Revising the EU’s treaties would lead to Germany leaving, and the euro’s collapse | FRÉDÉRIC LORDON ▶ p8

ASIA

China stifles internal unrest in Xinjiang

A million Muslim Uyghurs may have been interned to suppress their wish for autonomy | RÉMI CASTETS ▶ p12

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Venezuela’s splintered politics Two presidents, divided opposition julia buxton ▶ p2

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