Tag: The Jamestown Foundation

USA/POLAND – US Army’s V Corps Forward Command Inaugurated in Poland (Jakub Bornio, The Jamestown Foundation)

On November 20, authorities ceremonially inaugurated the formation of the Forward Command of the United States Army’s V Corps (HQ-F) in its new location,...

BELARUS – Belarusian Crisis Through the Prism of Virtual Realities (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

At the December 2 virtual summit of the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), President Alyaksandr Lukashenka once again expressed his view that the...

RUSSIA/IRAQ – Russia and Iraq Deepen Energy, Military Ties (John C. K. Daly, The Jamestown Foundation)

As the United States hastens its drawdown of troops in Iraq before the January 20 inauguration of President-elect Joseph Biden, Russia is seeking to...

ABKHAZIA/RUSSIA – Abkhazia Bolsters Linkages With Russia (Zaal Anjaparidze, The Jamestown Foundation)

Abkhazian "President" Akhra Bzhania and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sochi, November 12 (Source: kremlin.ru) On November 24, the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs strictly condemned...

THE MINSK GROUP – Karabakh War’s Diplomatic Casualty (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation, Part Four)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts, Moscow, April 2019 (Source: Azerbaijan MFA) Over the past two decades, the main international...

RUSSIA – Russia Strives for an Oil and Gas Resurgence (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

(Source: Bloomberg) As the global economy—animated by the arrival of multiple COVID-19 vaccines—hopes for the first signs of recovery, expectations also rise in Russia for...

GEORGIA – West Calls on Georgian Opposition Not to Boycott New Parliament (Giorgi Menabde, The Jamestown Foundation)

Titus Corlatean (Romania), PACE Co-rapporteur for Monitoring Georgia (Source: 1tv.ge) The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) co-rapporteurs in charge of monitoring Georgia,...

RUSSIA – Behind the Rumors of Putin’s Illness: Distraction or Signal of Looming Changes at the Top? (Kseniya Kirillova, The Jamestown Foundation)

(Source: RBC) This past month saw a new surge in “leaks” and speculation about the state of President Vladimir Putin’s health along with suggestions in...

RUSSIA – COVID-19 Slows Down Development of Russia’s Naval Nuclear Forces (Maxim Starchak, The Jamestown Foundation)

SevMash (Source: Sevmash.ru) The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the output of all sectors of Russian industry, including arms manufacturers (see EDM, April 20, 21, 29, July 28). And...

DEFENSE – Putin Approves Secret Russian Defense Plan for 2021–2025 (Sergey Sukhankin, The Jamestown Foundation)

  General Valery Gerasimov, one of Russia's main military theoreticians (Source: Rossiyskaya Gazeta) On November 13, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree (ukaz) “On the Implementation...

TURKMENISTAN – Turkmenistan, Now With Soviet-Style Deficits, on Brink of Explosion (Paul Goble, The Jamestown Foundation)

Turkmenistan, far and away the most closed country in the former Soviet space, seldom receives much attention except as the butt of dismissive jokes...

NAGORNO KARABAKH – The Minsk Group: Karabakh War’s Diplomatic Casualty (Part Two) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

The second Karabakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan (September–November 2020) has conclusively discredited the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Minsk Group,...