Tag: The Jamestown Foundation

Russian LNG Shipments to India: Strategic Implications and Long-Term Prospects (Sergey Sukhankin, The Jamestown Foundation)

In late September, Russia’s first Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU)—specifically designed for emergency transportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) via the Baltic Sea to...

CSTO ‘Combat Brotherhood 2021’ Exercises Send Strong Message to Afghanistan (John C. K. Daly, The Jamestown Foundation)

On October 18–23, the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which includes Afghanistan as an observer, held its Combat Brotherhood 2021 strategic military exercises,...

Spurning Pair of International Summits, Putin Denounces Globalization (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

The back-to-back international summits of the G20 in Rome and COP26 in Glasgow at the end of October brought together hosts of dignitaries and...

Russian Military Thought on the Changing Character of War: Harnessing Technology in the Information Age (Roger McDermott, The Jamestown Foundation)

Russia’s General Staff has long-established interests in the analysis of developments in the means and methods of military conflict. In the early Soviet era,...

Russian Gazprom Ready to Pounce on Moldovan Prey (Part Two) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

Four rounds of Russian-Moldovan negotiations in October over natural gas supplies have revealed the two sides’ conflicting positions (see Part One). The Russians propose signing a...

Russian Gazprom Ready to Pounce on Moldovan Prey (Part One) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

Using Gazprom as its political instrument, the Kremlin threatens to halt natural gas supplies to Moldova temporarily on November 1, and indefinitely from December...

Beijing Changes Its Approach to Economic Expansion in Central Asia (Paul Globe, The Jamestown Foundation)

China has quietly but dramatically changed its economic approach to the countries of Central Asia—a shift with enormous consequences not only for the region...

Internal Fruit of Russian Propaganda: The Political Repercussions of COVID-19 in Russia (Pavel Felgenhauer, The Jamestown Foundation)

October 2021 marked the most dramatic month-over-month increase in reported COVID-19 cases in the Russian Federation since the pandemic began, with up to 40,000...

Tensions in Tehran-Baku Relations: Iran’s New Transit Routes in Armenia and the Caspian Sea (Vali Kaleji, The Jamestown Foundation)

Although many observers assumed that the recent uptick in tensions between Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan (see EDM, October 6) would die down following...

Saakashvili’s Hunger Strike Mobilizes Georgian Opposition (Giorgi Menabde, The Jamestown Foundation)

On October 25, United National Movement (UNM)—Georgia’s main opposition party, established in 2001 by former president Mikheil Saakashvili—released a statement regarding the hospitalization of...

Increased Social Tensions in Russia Spill Over Into Shootings and Inter-Ethnic Conflicts (Kseniya Kirillova, The Jamestown Foundation)

Beginning in the fall of 2018, sociologists saw a sharp rise in social tensions in Russia, driven by price increases, unemployment and an economic...

Belarusian-Russian Economic Dependency and Trade Wars: Is There a Contradiction? (Grigory Ioffe, The Jamestown Foundation)

Two stories involving Belarus that have been unfolding over the past few weeks appear to contradict each other on the surface. These are the...

Russia’s ‘Re-Exploration’ of Siberia and the Far East: Tools, Plans, Ambitions (Part One) (Sergey Sukhankin, The Jamestown Foundation)

In addition to other notable developments, the Sixth Eastern Economic Forum 2021 (EEF-2021), held on September 2–4, in Vladivostok (see EDM, September 14), unraveled an...

Putin’s Valdai Platitudes Obscure Worsening Domestic Situation (Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation)

The annual meeting of the Valdai Club last week (October 18–21) was less pompous than usual, and many foreign guests attended virtually; but Russian...

The Kremlin Is Pleased After Kozak-Nuland Talks on Ukraine (Part Two) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

According to Kremlin-connected analyst Fedor Lukyanov, the Joseph Biden administration had to work hard with Moscow to make Under Secretary Victoria Nuland’s visit possible....

The Kremlin Is Pleased After Kozak-Nuland Talks on Ukraine (Part One) (Vladimir Socor, The Jamestown Foundation)

The Joseph Biden administration has apparently decided to work with Russia toward a political solution to the conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas. On October 13,...