Eurasia Digest, Volume 1, Issue 20

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