Tag: The Jamestown Foundation

Ukraine in Play After Biden-Putin Discussion (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

Presidents Joseph Biden of the United States and Vladimir Putin of Russia have agreed, in their December 7 video-dialogue (see EDM, December 8), to create...

Is a Russo-US De-Escalation Feasible? (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

The stakes were high when Presidents Joseph Biden of the United States and Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation held a two-hour, bilateral video-conference...

Abkhazia’s ‘President’ Floats Idea to Lift Real Estate Purchase Restrictions for Russian Citizens (Zaal Anjaparidze, The Jamestown Foundation)

A new standoff is maturing around the long-standing issue of privatization of real estate in Georgia’s secessionist region of Abkhazia. On November 8, the...

Ossetian-Ingush Tensions Escalate Into Series of Clashes (Valery Dzutsati, The Jamestown Foundation)

During the first two weeks of November, ethnic Ossetians and Ingush in the Russian North Caucasus republic of North Ossetia–Alania skirmished on three separate...

President Zelenskyy Confronts Top Ukrainian Oligarch (Mykola Vorobiov, The Jamestown Foundation)

For the past several weeks, much of the world’s attention has been focused on an apparent Russian buildup of forces near the Ukrainian and...

Ukraine Looms Large in Biden-Putin Dialogue (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

Presidents Joseph Biden of the United States and Vladimir Putin of Russia held a one-on-one video-conference, on December 7—their fifth direct dialogue (three by...

How might allies respond if Russia invades Ukraine? (Hans Binnendijk and Barry Pavel, Defense News)

NATO needs to plan beyond efforts to deter another Russian invasion of Ukraine and recognize that its actual response may differ depending on the...

Kyrgyzstani Parliamentary Elections Strengthen President Japarov’s Rule (Serik Rymbetov, The Jamestown Foundation)

On November 28, Kyrgyzstan held early parliamentary elections, which capped a year of hectic electoral activity—inaugurated with the January presidential vote won by then–prime...

Russia, China Dividing Responsibilities in Tajikistan: Is Conflict Possible? (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

Street clashes in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan region have quieted down at least for the present, but in their wake, geopolitical competition there has, if anything,...

India Responds to New Kashmiri Militant Factions’ Campaign Against Civilians (Animesh Roul, The Jamestown Foundation)

After a period of relative dormancy, India’s restive Kashmir region has been struck by violence again, witnessing an increase in the targeted killings of...

The Window for a Negotiated Settlement in Ethiopia’s War is Closing as the Country Faces Protracted Civil War (Michael Horton, The Jamestown Foundation)

On November 22, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced that he was leaving the capital, Addis Ababa, for the frontlines of the country’s civil...

Pakistan’s Peace Talks with the Pakistani Taliban: Insights from an Interview with Abdul Wali Mohmand (alias Umar Khalid Khurasani) (Abdul Sayed, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) (“Pakistani Taliban”) spokesman, Muhammad Khurasani, announced a one-month ceasefire and peace negotiations with the Pakistani state on November 8 (Umar...

Violence Spreads in Kazakhstan, and Now Involving Attacks on Ethnic Russians (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

Clashes between Kazakhs and various non-Kazakh minorities like the Uyghurs and Dungans have become increasingly common in Kazakhstan.  But now, many in Nur-Sultan and...

Russian Ideologists Call for External Expansion: What Can Ukraine Expect? (Kseniya Kirillova, The Jamestown Foundation)

Kyiv’s western allies continue to express concern over the buildup of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine (see EDM, November 8, 29). US Secretary of...

Putin’s Ultimatum to America (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

In the past several weeks, relations between Moscow and Washington nosedived, with multiple overlapping potential crises and increasingly toxic rhetoric aggravating an already dangerous...

Europe Is Talking to Minsk (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

On November 15 and 17, Angela Merkel, the outgoing chancellor of Germany, telephoned Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka (RBC, November 17). While, on November 14...