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No peacemakers for the new/old Caucasian war: Understanding the Armenia-Azerbaijan clash

(Brookings) full-blown war erupted in the South Caucasus last Sunday, September 27, and as the two belligerents — Armenia and Azerbaijan — mobilize their forces under martial law, no international authority…

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Russia’s Hardest Working Oligarch Takes Talents to Africa

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In September 2019, Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev sat down for an interview with the Russian news outlet RBC and announced the launch of the International Agency…

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Kurilla: There’s a popular saying for the last couple days: Belarus in 2020 is what Russia will be in 2024

(U.S. News & World Report) This year should have ushered in Russia’s return to greatness and Putin’s assumption of ‘great statesman’ status. Instead it has been marked by trouble for the…

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Dismissing European Outrage, Russia Turns Itself Into a ‘Great Pariah Power’

(Eurasia Daily Monitor) With its latest double breach of norms of international behavior—poisoning the opposition leader Alexei Navalny and embracing the discredited Belarusian autocrat, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka—Russia has managed to unite…

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Pipeline “Khanfluence”: Power of Siberia 2 to Go Through Mongolia to China

(China’s Resource Risks) The Power of Siberia pipeline is finally shipping Russian gas to China as of December 2019, after nearly thirty years of discussion. Despite this dilatory timeline, plans for…

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Where’s Wagner? The All-New Exploits of Russia’s “Private” Military Company

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Just when you think you know where Russia’s Wagner Group “private” military company (PMC) is deployed, it pops up somewhere else. In the past year, its…

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If Putin sends troops to Belarus, don’t expect Russians to applaud

(Monkey Cage) Russians don’t like military adventures in bad economic times, my research finds. Yesterday, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met with Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, in Sochi to discuss closer integration. The ongoing political…

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No peacemakers for the new/old Caucasian war: Understanding the Armenia-Azerbaijan clash

Russia’s Hardest Working Oligarch Takes Talents to Africa

Kurilla: There’s a popular saying for the last couple days: Belarus in 2020 is what Russia will be in 2024

Dismissing European Outrage, Russia Turns Itself Into a ‘Great Pariah Power’

Pipeline “Khanfluence”: Power of Siberia 2 to Go Through Mongolia to China

Where’s Wagner? The All-New Exploits of Russia’s “Private” Military Company

If Putin sends troops to Belarus, don’t expect Russians to applaud

Russia Alarmed and Awed by the Belarusian Revolution

Greene: If you see Navalny’s poisoning as a major shift, you haven’t been paying attention

Russia’s Crumbling Power Vertical: Decreasing Disposable Income Drives Discontentment