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Explosion of violence in Kyrgyzstan: Moscow wins?
The terrible new outburst of intercommunal violence in Kyrgyzstan is unexpected in detail, if not necessarily in outline. While ousted president Bakiyev’s initial attempts to raise an insurrection in...
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The Uzbek factor in Kyrgyzstan
I confess I am often distinctly skeptical about the analysis produced by STRATFOR (although they do have some of the prettiest graphics around), but while not agreeing with a fair amount of the piece...
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Russia’s military and its ability to assert its power in the ‘Near Abroad’
Belatedly, I note my latest column in the Moscow News: ‘A true “Medvedev” doctrine,’ on Russia’s current ‘Center’ and ‘Union Shield’ military exercises and what they say about current priorities and...
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Updated after Biryulevo: Is Navalny a Revolutionary? If So, Which One?
A few days back, I wrote this note: Is he a reformer, a radical, a revolutionary? Indeed, what do these kinds of distinctions mean? A reformer wants to change and ameliorate the existing system, a...
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Not a new Cold War: Great Game II
This is just a short introductory excerpt from a longer piece published on the EthZ International Relations and Security Network (ISN) here. Suddenly the talk is of a new Cold War between Russia and...
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