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DEFENSE – Putin Approves Secret Russian Defense Plan for 2021–2025 (Sergey Sukhankin, The Jamestown Foundation)

  General Valery Gerasimov, one of Russia's main military theoreticians (Source: Rossiyskaya Gazeta) On November 13, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree (ukaz) “On the Implementation...

TURKMENISTAN – Turkmenistan, Now With Soviet-Style Deficits, on Brink of Explosion (Paul Goble, The Jamestown Foundation)

Turkmenistan, far and away the most closed country in the former Soviet space, seldom receives much attention except as the butt of dismissive jokes...

NAGORNO KARABAKH – The Minsk Group: Karabakh War’s Diplomatic Casualty (Part Two) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

The second Karabakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan (September–November 2020) has conclusively discredited the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Minsk Group,...

YEMEN – Ending the Yemen war is both a strategic and humanitarian imperative (John R. Allen and Bruce Riedel, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/11/16/ending-the-yemen-war-is-both-a-strategic-and-humanitarian-imperative/

IRAN – Iran will lose the battle, but win the war (Ranj Alaaldin, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/01/iran-will-lose-the-battle-but-win-the-war/

USA – America needs a COVID-19 Commission (Elaine Kamarck, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/12/01/america-needs-a-covid-19-commission/

DATA – To enhance data security, federal privacy legislation is just a start (Robert D. Williams, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/to-enhance-data-security-federal-privacy-legislation-is-just-a-start/

USA – Building resilient rural places: Strategies from local leaders to strengthen rural assets, diversity, and dynamism (Hanna Love and Mike Powe, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/multi-chapter-report/building-resilient-rural-places-strategies-from-local-leaders-to-strengthen-rural-assets-diversity-and-dynamism/

USA – Reviving nuclear arms control under Biden (Steven Pifer, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/01/reviving-nuclear-arms-control-under-biden/

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