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(Egypt/Russia/Black Sea/Turkey) Egyptian-Russian Naval Exercises in the Black Sea: Strategic Balancing against Turkey? (Ridvan Bari Urcosta, The Jamestown Foundation)

In November 2020, Russia and Egypt conducted their first joint naval exercises in the Black Sea. The Bridge of Friendship-2020 naval drills brought the Egyptian Navy...

(Russia/Karabakh) Russian ‘Peacekeeping’ in Karabakh: Old Model, New Features, Mission Creep (Part One) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

Russia’s “peacekeeping” operation in Upper (Nagorno) Karabakh, which ended the 44-day war last November, is laying the foundation of a Russian protectorate in this...

(Azerbaijan) Karabakh Victory Transforming Meaning of Black January for Many Azerbaijanis (Paul Goble, The Jamestown Foundation)

Moscow’s brutal dispatch of more than 35,000 Soviet troops into Azerbaijan in January 1990— nominally to defend the Armenian minority there but in fact...

(Russia/USA) Moscow in Confrontational Mode Reacting to Biden’s Inauguration (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Kremlin-controlled Russian media and top officialdom have greeted President Joe Biden and his administration taking power in the US with a massive, almost...

(Ocean/Climate Change) This chart shows how much the ocean is warming (Katharina Buchholz, WEF)

In 2020, global ocean surface temperatures were 0.76 degrees Celsius higher than the average temperature for the past one hundred years. While the...

Internet regulation: a transatlantic challenge (Julian Jaursch, Marco Emanuele, The Science of Where Magazine)

The Science of Where Magazine mets Julian Jaursch, head of the project Strengthening the Digital Public Sphere at the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV) (think tank at the...

(Supply Chains/Climate Change) Supply chains can be a climate game-changer. Here’s why (Rich Lesser, WEF)

Eight supply chains account for more than 50% of global CO2 emissions. Fully decarbonizing these would add just 1-4% to end-consumer costs for...

(Cybersecurity) These are the top cybersecurity challenges of 2021 (Algirde Pipikaite, Marc Barrachin, Scott Crawford, WEF)

Corporate leaders are increasingly elevating the importance of cybersecurity to their companies. But recent high-profile attacks show how much more needs to be...

(Application Programming Interface) 5 ways in which APIs are the building blocks of a safer, less hateful internet (Kenneth Kwok, WEF)

Harmful content and misinformation is everywhere around us on search engines, social networks and streaming services. The proliferation of written, visual and audio material...

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