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Kremlin’s ‘Vaccine Diplomacy’ in Action: Tools, Strengths, Intermediary Results
Russian media contends that the domestically manufactured Sputnik V—a COVID-19 vaccine developed last year by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology—is the world’s second-most highly approved inoculation against the novel coronavirus (Vzglyad, March 5). In truth, official data on the effectiveness of the... MORE
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Parallel Worlds in Belarus’s Public Politics
Signs of the Belarusian government’s rising self-confidence in the face of domestic protests and Western reproaches have been multiplying in recent weeks. First of all, arrests of opposition activists continue. Thus, on March 16, the authorities in Minsk apprehended two women, 32 and 42 years... MORE
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Turning up the Conflict Dial: The Political Reasons Behind the Resumed Fighting in Donbas
Following the latest round of consultations of political advisors within the so-called Normandy format (Ukraine, Russia, France, Germany), Andriy Yermak, the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, stated in a letter that Kyiv will not accept any of the proposals regarding the... MORE
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Moscow Weighs Options to Procure S-500 Air-Defense Systems
After many delays, Russia’s Ministry of Defense is finally considering the most suitable ways to introduce the new S-500 Prometheus surface-to-air missile (SAM) system as part of its wider air-defense modernization. The S-500 reportedly will offer enhanced defense capabilities against ballistic missiles and satellites. The... MORE
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Makhachkala Experiences First Special Operation in Five Years
On March 11, government forces in Makhachkala, Dagestan, killed a suspected rebel. According to official sources, the suspect had been plotting a terrorist attack on government agencies. Reportedly, the authorities found a machine gun, ammunition and an improvised explosive device (IED) at the site of... MORE
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Russia’s Karabakh Protectorate Taking Clearer Shape (Part Three)
*To read part one, please click here *To read part two, please click here Relations between the authorities in Stepanakert, the capital of the self-declared “republic” of Karabakh, and the government of Nikol Pashinian in Yerevan are complicated and, for the most part, uneasy. Armenia’s... MORE
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Baku-Ashgabat Accord Transforms Geopolitics of Caspian Region
When the five Caspian littoral states (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan) finally agreed, in August 2018, to the delimitation of the surface of the sea after almost two decades of on-again, off-again talks, many assumed that accord meant the situation in and around the... MORE
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Ukraine to License-Build US Helicopters for Its Armed Forces
Ukraine’s efforts to politically and military integrate with the West greatly intensified after Russia’s 2014 absorption of Crimea, while the subsequent and ongoing war in Donbas against combined Russian-proxy army units emphasized the need for Ukraine’s Armed Forces to reduce their dependence upon Soviet-era doctrine... MORE
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Russia’s Karabakh Protectorate Taking Clearer Shape (Part Two)
*To read Part One, please click here. Russia seems intent on reproducing in Karabakh the model it had earlier developed in Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria and Donbas—namely, a local proto-state with formal institutions under Russian military protection and economic sustenance (see EDM, December 8, 10,... MORE
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Two Words That Shook Putin’s Regime
The resonance in Russia from a short fragment of United States President Joseph Biden’s ABC News interview last Wednesday (March 17) has been extraordinarily loud—and the bilateral consequences could be far greater than just the Russian ambassador being recalled to Moscow for consultations (see EDM,... MORE