Water Crises and the Looming Ecological Catastrophe in Occupied Crimea and Devastated Donbas
Press Release — Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David R. Stilwell Joins Jamestown Board
Press Release – In Memoriam: Jacob W. Kipp (1942–2021)
Georgians Support Ukraine, but Georgian Government Fears Irritating Russia
On January 22, civil society activists from the The Shame Movement and multiple other pro-Western non-governmental organizations (NGO) gathered near the Embassy of Ukraine in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. While the rally was joined by many... MORE
Ukraine Crisis Elevates Importance of Gagauz in Russian Calculations
The Christian Turkic Gagauz minority in southeastern Moldova typically attracts attention only when the Kremlin seeks to use it, in combination with Transnistria, to pursue Russian interests. Those objectives are most often to put pressure... MORE
Russia and NATO Locked in High-Risk Standoff in Mediterranean and Black Seas
On Wednesday, January 26, the United States’ ambassador in Moscow, John Sullivan, personally delivered a memorandum to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs containing the official US reply to earlier Russian demands on security guarantees.... MORE
Crisis in Neighboring Kazakhstan Presents Uzbekistan With Challenges on Multiple Fronts
This month’s crisis in Kazakhstan, triggered by gas fuel price rises, came as a massive surprise for the Uzbekistani political elites. When the protests erupted in the neighboring country, almost all of Uzbekistan’s political establishment,... MORE
Belarus’s Politics of Memory Swing Back Toward Russo-Centrism
On January 5, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka signed into law a decree on “Genocide of the Belarusian People During the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945”; it envisages criminal responsibility for public denial of those horrific events... MORE
Russia’s Military Exercise in Belarus Prepares for War
The Russian-Belarusian large-scale military exercise Soyuznaya Reshimost (Allied Resolve) 2022 forms a critical dimension in Moscow’s war planning against Ukraine (see EDM, January 20). The Union State exercise, scheduled for February 10–20, will reportedly take... MORE
Year 2021 in Review: The Results of Russia’s Nuclear Weapons Modernization
Russia continues to press ahead with its nuclear weapons modernization program; but since not all goals were achieved the previous year, in 2021 the Russian military industry was forced to step up production. Last year,... MORE
Saudis in the Baltic: Can Poland Break Its Reliance on Russian Oil?
The period between late 2021 to early 2022 was marked by two crucial developments that could potentially enable a quick and sharp reduction in Poland’s energy reliance on Russia. Aside from numerous gains for Poland... MORE
As Tensions Over Ukraine Rise, Baku Signals Support for Kyiv, Worrying Moscow
As tensions between Russia and Ukraine continued to rise, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev flew to Kyiv ten days ago (January 14) to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. After their talks, the two leaders... MORE