Tag: The Jamestown Foundation

Russia/Caspian Sea – Russia’s Caspian Flotilla No Longer Only Force That Matters There (Paul Goble, The Jamestown Foundation)

Although Russia’s Caspian Flotilla remains the dominant naval force on the Caspian, it is not the only one that matters anymore. All four other...
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Russia – Russia Bungles Pre-Planned Intercept of UK Navy Vessel off Coast of Crimea (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

A shooting skirmish or a deadly collision between Russian and Western warships or aircraft in the Black Sea would almost certainly cause a serious...
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Finno Ugric Peoples/Russia – Kremlin’s Geopolitical Fears Divide Finno-Ugric Peoples (Vadim Shtepa, The Jamestown Foundation)

The eighth meeting of the World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples took place in Tartu, Estonia, on June 16–18. These congresses, which are held in...
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Azerbaijan/Turkey – Shusha Declaration Cements Azerbaijani-Turkish Alliance (Fuad Shahbazov, The Jamestown Foundation)

On June 15, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan paid an official visit to Karabakh to meet with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, thus becoming...
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NATO/Turkey/Russia – Can Turkish Drones Bolster NATO’s Eastern Flank Against Russia? (Can Kasapoglu, The Jamestown Foundation)

Turkish unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are becoming popular strategic assets and affordable military modernization solutions on the international arms market. Can Turkish Drones Bolster NATO’s...
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Serbia/Russia – Russia and Serbia: From Historical Memory to Future Relations (Oleg Barabanov, The Jamestown Foundation)

The phrase “Be realistic, demand the impossible” is well-known. Russia and Serbia now face approximately the same task in order to preserve their partnership in the future, writes Valdai...
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Belarus – Unpalatable Truths About Belarus’s Political Crisis (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

On June 14, Belarus’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) organized a 74-minute briefing to the press (YouTube, June 14). Two out of the three...
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Russia/Roscosmos/USA – Roscosmos Suffers From Russia’s Confrontation With the US (Pavel Luzin, The Jamestown Foundation)

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian state-owned space corporation Roscosmos, confirmed during parliamentary hearings earlier this month that Western sanctions have damaged Russia’s...
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Russia/Arctic Council – Moscow Ready to Exploit Increasingly Independent-Minded Greenland against West (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Russian government is already signaling that it plans an activist approach during its three-year term as chair of the Arctic Council (see EDM, April...
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Chechnya – Governor of Chechnya Hunts Down His Critics Across Russian Federation (Valery Dzutsati, The Jamestown Foundation)

The ruler of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, aspires to have not only administrative but also moral control over the population of his republic—as well as...
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Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan – Border Conflict Compels Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to Look for Foreign Weapons (Fozil Mashrab, The Jamestown Foundation)

Neighboring Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan came close to seeing the outbreak of renewed border clashes on June 4. This danger of fresh violence emerged little...
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USA/Russia – Putin’s Satisfaction With Geneva Summit Will Not Last (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

Expectations regarding the summit between Presidents Joseph Biden and Vladimir Putin in Geneva last Wednesday (June 16) were set quite low (see EDM, June 14, 17),...
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China/PLA – Early Warning Brief: The PLA’s Military Diplomacy Under COVID-19 (Kenneth Allen, The Jamestown Foundation)

Introduction The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been responsible for conducting military diplomacy since the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949....
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China – The 2021 Party History Study Campaign Stresses Revolution and Sacrifice (Elizabeth Chen, The Jamestown Foundation)

On June 15, Qiushi, the leading theoretical journal of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) published an article by CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) titled,...
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China – Looking Back on Short Flashes of Liberalization in the Chinese Communist Party’s 100 Years (Willy Wo-Lap Lam, The Jamestown Foundation)

Introduction After Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1893-1976) became the undisputed leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1936, he began a thorough-going purge of the...
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China – Military Political Work at the CCP’s Centennial (Maryanne Kivlehan-Wise, The Jamestown Foundation)

Introduction The phrase “military political work” (军队政治工作, jundui zhengzhi gongzuo) is an overarching term that describes all the efforts and activities of the People’s Liberation Army...
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