Tag: The Jamestown Foundation

Russia/Crimea/Black Sea – Crimea: The Expanding Military Capabilities of Russia’s Area Denial Zone in the Black Sea (The Jamestown

Sergey Sukhankin Two important and connected developments in the second half of April—military exercises in Crimea (RIA Novosti, April 22) and the wider growing tensions...

Russia/Ukraine – Declared Russian Troops Pull Out: Did the Kremlin Achieve What It Wanted? (The Jamestown Foundation)

Ihor Kabanenko Russia’s long-serving minister of defense, Sergei Shoigu, announced last week (April 22) that the Russian forces massed around Ukraine’s eastern and southern borders...

Russia/Ukraine/Black Sea – Moscow Pulls Back Land Forces From Ukrainian Border but Not Its Navy in Black Sea (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble Many observers are treating Russia’s pullback of land forces from the Ukrainian border as the end of the crisis—even some of those experts...

Azerbaijan – International Involvement in Infrastructure Projects in Azerbaijan’s Newly Regained Territories (The Jamestown Foundation)

Shabnam Hasanova Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced earlier this year that a number of large infrastructure projects had been launched in the territories liberated from...

Belarus – Minsk Is Trying to Unfreeze Relations With West, Ukraine (The Jamestown Foundation)

 Grigory Ioffe Aside from the April 22 Russia-Belarus summit, which did not turn out to be groundbreaking, three other stories have dominated news headlines pertaining...

Russia – Amidst Seemingly Easing Tensions, Putin Leaves Much Unsaid in Speech to Parliament (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel K. Baev President Vladimir Putin’s annual address to the Russian Federal Assembly (parliament), delivered last Wednesday, April 21, following a long delay, was anticipated...

Hong Kong – Hong Kong Cracks Down on National Security Imperatives Amid Electoral Reforms (The Jamestown Foundation)

Elizabeth Chen On April 15, Hong Kong celebrated National Security Education Day (NSE Day) for the first time in the special administrative region (HKSAR)’s history....

China – The CCP is Retooling its Censorship System at a Brisk Pace in 2021 (The Jamestown Foundation)

Angeli Datt, Sarah Cook Earlier this month, a Chinese video-gaming industry site revealed that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Propaganda Department had introduced a trial...

Prospects of China-U.S. Climate Diplomacy: The Perspective From Beijing (The Jamestown Foundation)

Kevin Jianjun Tu As U.S.-China tensions have continued into the Presidency of Joseph R. Biden, climate change is seen by some to be a rare...

New Concept Weapons: China Explores New Mechanisms to Win War (The Jamestown Foundation)

Marcus Clay The idea of “New Concept Weapons” (NCW, 新概念武器, xin gainian wuqi) is not new. In the parlance of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), NCW...

Russia/Arctic – Moscow Pushing Even More Expansive Claims on Arctic (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble In advance of Russia’s assumption of the two-year rotating chairmanship of the Arctic Council in May, Moscow is calling on the United Nations...

Ukraine/Russia/USA – Zelenskyy Seeks a Summit With Putin Again (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vladimir Socor Following United States President Joseph Biden’s example, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has also blinked to the Kremlin. The US president solicited a meeting...

Russia – Putin Delivers More Restrained National Address as Moscow Announces Partial Troop Withdrawal (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel Felgenhauer President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual address to a joint session of both houses of parliament on April 21, in the historical Moscow...

Azerbaijan – Azerbaijan Embarks on Construction of Nakhchivan Railway (Part Three) (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vasif Huseynov The Zangezur corridor between mainland Azerbaijan and Nakhchivan across southern Armenia, if re-opened, will carry greater economic significance for the connected states than...

Ukraine/Qatar – Ukraine Teams up With Qatar in the Gas Sector (The Jamestown Foundation)

Mateusz Kubiak On April 5, Ukraine’s acting minister of energy, Yuriy Vitrenko, and his Qatari counterpart, Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, signed a bilateral memorandum of understanding...

Moscow Forming First Robotic Military Units (The Jamestown Foundation)

Roger McDermott Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has confirmed plans to create the country’s first robotic military unit. These plans draw on existing research and...