
Eurasia Digest, Volume 1, Issue 20
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 22 Issue:
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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
FOREIGN POLICY & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Moscow Ponders Reconfigured Middle East, Finding Few Openings
Pavel K. Baev
Italy’s Approach to Georgia Stirs Controversy
Dario Cristiani
MILITARY & SECURITY
Putin Tossing Generals Exposes Fractures in Presidential Control Over Russian Military
Leonid Sokolov
Russian Black Sea Fleet Intends to Establish Base in Abkhazia
John C. K. Daly
Kremlin Formalizing Cossack Mobilization Reserve
Richard Arnold
Kazakhstan Aims to Modernize Military Through Multivector Diplomacy
Fuad Shahbazov
ENERGY & ECONOMICS
Kremlin Addressing Symptoms Instead of Causes of Coal Industry Downturn
Sergey Sukhankin
POLITICS & SOCIETY
Russia’s FSB Increasingly Playing Ever More Roles Similar to Soviet Union’s KGB
Paul Goble
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT
Central Asia’s Water Crisis Becoming Russia’s Problem
Paul Goble