Tag: The Jamestown Foundation

Mikheil Saakashvili Vows Return to Georgia (Giorgi Menabde, The Jamestown Foundation)

On September 6, former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who now heads the Executive Committee of the National Council of Reforms in Ukraine, announced that...
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South Caucasus States Keen to Cash in on China’s, India’s Transportation Expansion (Aslan Doukaev, The Jamestown Foundation)

With the emergence of China and other manufacturing powerhouses in Asia that constantly seek access to new markets, the Caucasus has become attractive as...
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Amidst Zapad 2021 Exercise, Russia and Belarus Establish Joint Air-Defense and Air Force Training and Combat Center (Arseny Sivitsky, The Jamestown Foundation)

While Russia and Belarus made final preparations to kick off their quadrennial joint strategic-operational exercise Zapad 2021, the two countries’ air-defense and air force...
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Fake Elections and Russia’s Belligerent Foreign Policy (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

The outcome of Russia’s crudely manipulated parliamentary elections on September 17–19 was never in question: the Kremlin executed extra-rigid control over the campaigning and...
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Moscow Promotes Naval Cooperation Among Caspian States to Exclude Others (Paul Goble, The Jamestown Foundation)

When the five Caspian littoral states signed a maritime delimitation pact in August 2018, they additionally agreed not to allow any outside power to...
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Kyiv Airing Disappointment With Western Policies (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is reverting to his earlier, forlorn hopes of improving relation with Russia through a personal meeting with President Vladimir Putin....
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Zapad 2021 Ends Peacefully but East-West Tensions Still Simmer (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

The massive, Russo-Belarusian Zapad 2021 operational-strategic war games have ended. The scenario of this year’s iteration of Zapad (September 10–16) envisaged an attack on...
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Russian Authorities Seek Total Control Over Internet (Kseniya Kirillova, The Jamestown Foundation)

The final months ahead of the elections to the Russian State Duma (lower chamber of parliament) were marked by a total cleansing of the...
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Raisi Presidency Challenged to Tackle Three Major Problems Between Iran and Azerbaijan (Rahim Rahimov, The Jamestown Foundation)

As new Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi forms his government, Baku and Tehran are expected to enter the next uneasy and uncertain phase in their...
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Is the Belarusian Political Crisis Finally Coming to an End? (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

The principal outcome of the Russian-Belarusian summit on September 9 was the announcement that all 28 “roadmaps”—now called “Union State Programs”—have finally been endorsed....
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Russia/Asia Pacific. Sustainable Energy—A Hidden Agenda of Russia’s 2021 Eastern Economic Forum (Sergey Sukhankin, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Sixth Eastern Economic Forum 2021 (EEF-2021), which convened delegations from 60 countries, took place on September 2–4, in Vladivostok, at the Far Eastern...
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Nord Stream 2. Nord Stream Two Construction Completed, but Gas Flows Unlikely in 2021 (Mateusz Kubiak, The Jamestown Foundation)

On September 10, the project company Nord Stream 2 AG informed that the last weld has been finished, making the Nord Stream Two natural...
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Japan/Central Asia. Japan Increases Involvement in Central Asia (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

Almost two decades ago, Japan adopted the 5+1 approach to dealing with Central Asia, a model other outside players have copied. Now, Japan is...
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China. Evidence of the Chinese Central Government’s Knowledge of and Involvement in Xinjiang’s Re-Education Internment Campaign (Adrian Zenz, The Jamestown Foundation)

Documents leaked to the New York Times (also known as the Xinjiang Papers) in November 2019 revealed how Chinese President Xi Jinping laid the...
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Uzbekistan/Afghanistan. Though Wary of Border Instability, Uzbekistan Ready to Handle Any Outcomes in Afghanistan (Umida Hashimova, The Jamestown Foundation)

Tashkent continues to warily watch the developments on the Afghanistan-Uzbekistan border. The Taliban had swept through the northern parts of Afghanistan in June to...
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Russia. The Russian Elections and Hidden Regionalist Politics (Vadim Shtepa, The Jamestown Foundation)

Russians are scheduled to vote on September 19. They will be deciding electoral races not only to the State Duma (lower chamber of the...
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