Press Release—In Memoriam: Vladimir Socor (1945–2025)
Announcing – Promethean Liberation: Russia’s Emerging National and Regional Movements
OUT NOW – Pivotal Poland: Europe’s Rising Power
Belarus and Poland Share Military Information Despite Worsening Political Relations
Executive Summary: On September 10, Poland shot down at least 19 Russian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that had violated its airspace. Afterward, Poland invoked Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) founding treaty.... MORE
Ukraine Ramps Up Defense Production With Increased International Cooperation
Executive Summary: Ukraine is stepping up international cooperation in defense manufacturing to maximize production, drive innovation, and protect critical industrial infrastructure from Russian strikes. Kyiv launched the “Test in Ukraine” platform to allow international defense... MORE
Azerbaijan Attempts Pragmatic Diplomacy at SCO Summit
Executive Summary: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s visit to Beijing for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit on August 31–September 1 emphasizes Baku’s recent push for the formation of a multivector diplomatic position. Baku seeks deeper... MORE
Moscow Using Svalbard to Test NATO’s Readiness and Resolve
Executive Summary: Moscow is using drone incursions in Romania and Poland to test the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO’s) readiness and resolve, seeking to highlight divisions over how to respond to this new form of... MORE
Russia and Belarus Decrease Parameters of Zapad-2025 Joint Military Exercise
Executive Summary: Belarusian officials insist that the joint strategic exercise Zapad-2025 of the Regional Troops Grouping (RTG) of Belarus and Russia poses no threat to neighboring states, has limited parameters, and is purely defensive in... MORE
Russian ‘Code’ and Stalin’s Rehabilitation Highlight Kremlin’s Ideological Turn
Executive Summary: Sergey Karaganov, one of the founders of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, has created the “Code of the Russian” to codify an analogue of Soviet ideals adapted to Putin’s Russia.... MORE
Moscow Downplays Drone Incursion on Poland
Executive Summary: Russia’s September 9–10 drone attack, when at least 19 decoy Gerbera drones entered Polish airspace, caused little physical damage but triggered a swift response, including operation “Eastern Sentry,” in a kinetic test of... MORE
Eurasia Digest Volume 1, Issue 26
Welcome to Eurasia Digest, a weekly publication of Jamestown’s coverage of Eurasia. Every Friday, Jamestown will publish a compilation of articles written about Eurasia across all our publications. Read the full issue here. In This Issue:... MORE
Decoding Beijing’s ‘Colonization of the Mind’ Narrative
Executive Summary: A new report by the Xinhua Institute argues that U.S. “cognitive warfare” attempts to “colonize” the minds of people across the world, in particular in global south countries. American influence is framed as... MORE