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Europe Is Talking to Minsk (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

On November 15 and 17, Angela Merkel, the outgoing chancellor of Germany, telephoned Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka (RBC, November 17). While, on November 14...

Lavrov’s Leaks: Moscow Embarrasses Berlin and Paris in Negotiations Over Ukraine (Part Two) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

While Kyiv, Berlin and Paris pursue (with varying degrees of intensity, frantically in Kyiv’s case) a high-level “Normandy” meeting as a goal for its...

Tajikistan’s Pamir Region Descends Into Chaos (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

The extrajudicial murder of a local Pamiri activist by state security police in the mountainous and impoverished Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast of Tajikistan has sparked...

Regional Tensions Could Trigger Energy Deficit in Karabakh (Fuad Shahbazov, The Jamestown Foundation)

Last September, long-brewing strains between Iran and Azerbaijan reached an unprecedented level, resulting in the deployment of troops and large-scale military drills by both...

Lavrov’s Leaks: Moscow Embarrasses Berlin and Paris in Negotiations Over Ukraine (Part One) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

Russian diplomacy is testing its rogue-state practices on its Western diplomatic counterparts, and finds them malleable. On November 17, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov...

Ukraine’s Troubles, Putin’s ‘Red Lines’ and Biden’s Warnings (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

Crisis is brewing yet again in the intrinsically antagonistic relations between Russia and Ukraine, and President Vladimir Putin seeks to harvest richer political dividends...

Solomon Islands deployment: Australia must meet obligations to women (Nicole George, The Interpreter)

Amid the disturbing images of mass protests, looting and arson in Honiara last week, local journalist Georgina Kekea shared footage on Twitter of the...

New Zealand: No longer Australia’s Pacific security partner? (Robert Ayson, The Interpreter)

The prophecy was delivered in 2014. “It is likely that over the next ten years,” Wellington’s Defence Assessment foretold, “New Zealand will deploy military and other...

Australia’s scrapping of Antarctic aerodrome could pave the runway for China (Elizabeth Buchanan, The Strategist)

While environmentalists have welcomed the Australian government’s decision to abandon the Davis aerodrome project in Antarctica, China is likely now drafting its own year-round...

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