Uncategorized

Crimea. The Revolving Door of Persecution in Crimea (Yulia Gorbunova, HRW)

Nariman Dzhelyal in Crimea in 2019.  © 2019 Anton Naumliuk, Grati In today’s Crimea, to be a member of the Crimean Tatar community is to be...

Afghanistan. The future of Afghanistan’s schools – and its children – is at stake (Zama Neff, HRW)

Books, notebooks, and other school supplies are left behind after May 8's deadly bombings near a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 9, 2021. ©...

Burkina Faso. Some Accountability for Attack on Burkina Faso School (Lauren Seibert, HRW)

A student responds to a teacher’s question in an overcrowded classroom at a public primary school in Kaya, Centre-Nord region, Burkina Faso. In January...

Russia. Putin’s Anti-Navalny Law (Dr. Jiri and Leni Valenta, BESA Center)

Vladimir Putin and Alexei Navalny, image via Wikimedia Commons On June 4, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a law banning “individuals designated as ‘extremists’ from running for public...

Iran/Afghanistan. Iran and the Taliban (Erfan Fard, BESA Center)

Iranian clergymen, including Ebrahim Raisi, image via Wikimedia Commons The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to overthrow the Taliban regime and al-Qaeda after the 9/11 attacks....

Russia/USA. Interpreting the Biden Doctrine: The View From Moscow (Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center)

The newly unveiled Biden doctrine, which renounces the United States’ post-9/11 policies of remaking other societies and building nations abroad, is a foreign policy...

Afghanistan. Afghanistan in the Grip of Sanctions (Ivan Timofeev, Valdai Discussion Club)

The Taliban leaders will try to change the image of the organisation, to convince the international community that it is striving to break with...

Iran/Afghanistan. Iran’s Policy Toward the Taliban (Farhad Ibrahimov, Valdai Discussion Club)

Tehran has not yet worked out a solution and cannot answer the main question for itself: is it worth recognising the Taliban at all? However, what the Islamic...

Afghanistan/Central Asia/Eurasia. Central Asia and Eurasia after the Fall of Kabul (Glenn Diesen, Valdai Discussion Club)

The fall of Kabul will have profound implications for Central Asia and wider Eurasia — presenting both risks and opportunities. The risks associated with the Taliban...

Latest articles