Joshua Kucera
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 12:54
And curiously, the level of skepticism that the State Department used with respect to Central Asian governments didn't extend to Azerbaijan.
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 07:58
It's noteworthy that this formulation -- "defensive" anti-aircraft and anti-armor weapons -- is exactly that used by former President Mikhail Saakashvili. But where Saakashvili wanted the U.S. to give him those weapons, Alasania here is asking that NATO allies put them in Georgia.
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 07:57
And curiously, the level of skepticism that the State Department used with respect to Central Asian governments didn't extend to Azerbaijan.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 23:36
Georgia's defense minister is visiting Washington this week as the United States tries to bolster the defenses of its allies on Russia's borders.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 09:21
The "people's mayor" of the breakaway town of Slavyansk, Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, told Time magazine that "his militia force... is made up partly of volunteers who have come from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other parts of the former Soviet Union."
Sunday, April 27, 2014 - 15:41
As RIA Novosti puts it: "The development of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet became an important task for the country when a number of agreements were annulled with Ukraine after the Crimean Peninsula was reunited with Russia last month."
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 08:15
The Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization announced on Thursday that it would stop all contacts with NATO. It's a decision not likely to be deeply mourned in Brussels, which rarely had evinced any interest in cooperating with the CSTO in the first place.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 08:11
But Azerbaijan appeared to push back against any notion of formally banning outside military powers from the Caspian.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 12:39
The crisis in Ukraine has reopened a discussion of the military status of the Black Sea, where the United States has long sought to gain greater naval access and Russia has been wary of the U.S.'s ambitions.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 11:20
While color revolutions have been on the agenda of the CSTO for some time, they have not been much under discussion in the SCO, which tends to focus more on Beijing-centric bogeymen like "splittists."