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Georgian Government Arrests Former President Saakashvili Upon His Return From Exile (Giorgi Menabde, The Jamestown Foundation)

On October 1, one day before Georgia held local elections, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili stated that the police had arrested former president Mikhail Saakashvili...
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Russia’s Four Diplomatic Encounters and a Summit (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

In late September, while President Joseph Biden struggled with a multitude of domestic issues and President Vladimir Putin sought opportunities to score points on...
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Crop Failures in Russia Point to Serious Shortages of Bread and Potatoes Ahead (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

For several years, food prices have been rising in Russia, forcing the population to purchase ever cheaper products (Profile.ru, September 20). The government has...
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Is Uzbekistan on the Verge of Rejoining the CSTO? (Fozil Mashrab, The Jamestown Foundation)

On September 20, Tashkent hosted a conference on the topic “Russia and Uzbekistan facing the challenges of development and security at a new historical...
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Divining the Meaning of Recent Developments on Belarus’s Two Geopolitical Flanks (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

As a fairly small (population-wise) country squeezed between Russia and the European Union, Belarus is destined to be a geopolitical tuning fork, whose reactions...
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Russia’s Armed Forces Enhance UAV Strike Capability (Roger McDermott, The Jamestown Foundation)

The joint Belarusian-Russian Zapad 2021 combined strategic exercise (sovmestnoe strategicheskoe uchenie), which lasted from September 10 to 16, witnessed numerous tests and experiments involving Russia’s...
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Radical Sanctions on Belarus Will Not Push Minsk Into Moscow’s Arms, Russian Experts Argue (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

Angered by Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s repressive moves and desirous of being on the right side of history, Western governments have imposed increasingly tough sanctions on...
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Is Serbia Preparing to Annex Kosovo’s North? (Margarita Assenova, The Jamestown Foundation)

Tensions on the Serbian-Kosovo border have rapidly escalated, threatening to spiral into a renewed conflict in the Balkans. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has ordered...
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The Taliban Takeover of Kabul and Implications for the India-Iran-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan Transit Corridor (Vali Kaleji, The Jamestown Foundation)

The port of Chabahar—located on the Makran coast of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan Province, near to the Gulf of Oman and at the mouth...
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Armored Troop Carrier Project to Link Baltic Sea Regional Partners (Olevs Nikers, The Jamestown Foundation)

In late summer, Latvia and Finland officially agreed on a deal for Riga to purchase more than 200 armored personnel carriers (APC) developed by...
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Russian Gas, German Elections, and US sanctions (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

Two high-resonance processes have been simultaneously unfolding in Europe in the last few weeks: the sharp increase in the prices on natural gas (see EDM,...
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Sanctions on Belarus Will Not Bring Regime Change (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

With reference to Nasha Niva, the Belarusian service of Radio Liberty reports that Deutsche Bank, the main correspondent bank of Belarusian state-owned financial institutions, has closed its...
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Azerbaijan Increasingly Critical of Russia’s Peacekeeping Mission in Karabakh (Vasif Huseynov, The Jamestown Foundation)

On September 6–10, Azerbaijan and Turkey held joint special forces exercises in the Lachin region of Azerbaijan, marking the first time Turkish troops carried...
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Russia’s Military Boosts Electromagnetic Spectrum Capability (Roger McDermott, The Jamestown Foundation)

As a result of major reforms and continued state investment in modernization over more than a decade, the Russian Armed Forces have significantly advanced...
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Demographic Decline and Urbanization Threaten Moscow’s Control over Borderlands (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

Demography is not destiny except over the long term, it is often said. But for Russia, that time may be now. Accelerating population decline,...
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Iran’s Full Membership in the SCO: A Win-Win Game? (Omid Shokri, The Jamestown Foundation)

Iran’s bid to become a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) dates to one year after it received observer status in 2005....
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