John C. K. Daly
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 - 07:34
China is seeking to begin construction of light attack aircraft at a Ukrainian defense industry facility, the first time that China has engaged a significant portion of the former Soviet military-industrial complex.
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 - 05:07
Vital as they may be worldwide, peacekeeping operations, with their lack of glamour and faraway posts, are unloved by most ministries of defense and are typically among the first to suffer cuts in times of economic downturn, except, apparently, in Kazakhstan.
Friday, October 30, 2015 - 06:44
Beyond a feel-good tour, Central Asian leaders have to wonder about the purpose of Kerry’s visit, as beyond hectoring human rights and religious freedom lectures, there is little on offer.
Friday, September 25, 2015 - 06:31
While the West remains fixated on Moscow’s assistance to embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, closer to home Russia and the post-Soviet space are taking the IS threat very seriously.
Thursday, August 27, 2015 - 06:46
The Kazakh government has made battling corruption a top priority, but results so far are mixed, as it is a deeply ingrained problem across the post-Soviet space.
Monday, August 10, 2015 - 05:55
Of all the post-Soviet Central Asian nations, Uzbekistan under its president Islam Karimov has pursued the most doggedly independent stance towards Russia.
Thursday, July 30, 2015 - 05:48
Russian-Georgian relations have been rocky ever since the two nations fought a brief but bitter five day war in August 2008.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 06:30
On July 8 in the Caucasus, hardly the globe’s most quiescent region at the best of times, a two-week-long drill, the “Agile Spirit 2015” joint NATO-Georgian exercise began at the Vaziani airbase near Tbilisi.
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 - 06:31
Since June 17, demonstrators have been agitating in downtown Yerevan, the most serious unrest that Armenia has seen in years, raising concerns about political stability in the impoverished post-Soviet Caucasian nation.
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 05:26
The NDN was a skein of three major railway and road links across Russia and the post-Soviet Caucasian and Central Asian space that had provided logistical transit to Afghanistan for the multinational International Security Assistance Force.