Tag: The Jamestown Foundation

Russian-Led Mission in Kazakhstan Unveils New Peacekeeping Model (Part Two) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

Russia’s peacekeeping intervention with four minor allies in Kazakhstan (January 6 through January 19—see Part One in EDM, January 19, 2022) brings to six the number...

The Two Faces of Kazakhstan’s Civil Unrest (Margarita Assenova, The Jamestown Foundation)

Kazakhstan faced the worst civil unrest since its independence, when popular protests turned violent and nearly caused state collapse in early January. Long perceived...

Kremlin Refocuses Its Propaganda in Preparation for War (Kseniya Kirillova, The Jamestown Foundation)

While Russia continues to build up its military forces on the Ukrainian border (see EDM, December 13, 2021 and January 20, 2022), the Kremlin has also stepped...

Water Crises and the Looming Ecological Catastrophe in Occupied Crimea and Devastated Donbas (Alla Hurska, The Jamestown Foundation)

The critical, chronic and worsening water shortages gripping the Crimean Peninsula derive from a combination of long-term and complex (both anthropogenic and natural) factors...

Kazakhstan Protests Involve Russians, Adding to Moscow’s Worries About Stability (Paul Goble, The Jamestown Foundation)

Moscow was alarmed by the protests in Kazakhstan earlier this month primarily because they represented an attack of the population against the regime, something...

Social Unrest in Kazakhstan Turns Violent, Ends Nazarbayev Era (Serik Rymbetov, The Jamestown Foundation)

The inaugural week of the new year ushered in a period of unprecedented instability for Kazakhstan, Central Asia’s largest economy. The country has long...

Russian Troops Deploy to Belarus With Fanfare (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

Tensions have been flying high between Moscow and the West for months, with little prospect currently of imminent de-escalation. Stress is also mounting between...

Kazakhstan, Fertilizer and Belarus’s Political Crisis (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

Since the start of 2022, two unexpected “black swan” events have indirectly altered last year’s calculus regarding the expected evolution of the Belarusian political...

Russian-Led Mission in Kazakhstan Unveils New Peacekeeping Model (Part One) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown

From January 6 through January 19, Russia and its allies in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) conducted a successful stabilization mission in Kazakhstan,...

CSTO Props up Presidential Succession in Kazakhstan (Roger McDermott, The Jamestown Foundation)

On January 5, in response to the then-rapidly worsening national crisis in Kazakhstan, which was triggered by increased fuel prices resulting in popular protests...

Azerbaijani Perspectives on the Recent Unrest in Kazakhstan (Vasif Huseynov, The Jamestown Foundation)

In early January, the sudden outbreak of massive anti-government protests in Kazakhstan and subsequent intervention by the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) reverberated...

Kazakhstan Events Echo Across Former Soviet Space (Paul Goble, The Jamestown Foundation)

More than any other event since the Crimean annexation in 2014, the popular protests in Kazakhstan and the subsequent Russian-led intervention to suppress them...

Tough Talks Produce New Russia-West Face-Off (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

Diplomats naturally value dialogue; but when it comes to current relations with Moscow, the wisdom of such an approach looks dubious—particularly following the week...

The Evolution of the PLA’s Enlisted Force: Conscription and Recruitment (Part One) (Kenneth Allen, The Jamestown Foundation)

This article is the first in a two-part series on the evolution of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) enlisted force. Part one provides background...

China’s Next Generation Infrastructure Development in Tibet: Implications for India (Suyash Desai, The Jamestown Foundation)

It has been 71 years since the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the local government of Tibet signed a 17-point agreement on “the...

A Bitter Winter: Omicron Tests the Limits of China’s Zero-COVID Approach (John S. Van Oudenaren, The Jamestown Foundation)

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has sought to achieve a “zero-infection” (零感染,ling ganran) rate among its population. The Chinese ...