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The Jamestown Foundation
April 4, 2018
On March 24, the chief of the Russian General Staff (CGS), Army General Valery Gerasimov, delineated current top brass thinking on future warfare. Gerasimov placed his remarks within the context of Russia's deteriorating relations with the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Newsweek
April 4, 2018
The list of contradictions does not stop there," Alex Vatanka, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and the Jamestown Foundation in Washington, told Newsweek. "There is nothing in this new so-called 'war cabinet' of Pompeo or Bolton that would have suggested this would be the path for the U.S. inÃâà...
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
April 4, 2018
Jacob Zenn is an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University's Security Studies Program and a fellow on African and Eurasian affairs at the Jamestown Foundation. On March 22, the Islamic State-affiliated faction of Boko Haram released 105 of the 111 the girls they kidnapped from a school inÃâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
March 27, 2018
The long-running legal conflict between the Federal Security Service (FSB) and Telegram Messenger Limited, a cloud-based instant messaging service created by Pavel Durov, finally seemed to come to an end on March 20. That day, the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, InformationÃâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
March 26, 2018
Matthew Brazil, Ph.D. is a non-resident Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation. He worked in Asia for over 20 years as an Army officer, American diplomat, and corporate security manager. Matt runs Madeira Security Consulting Inc. in San Jose, California, specializing in advice to Silicon Valley companiesÃâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
March 21, 2018
The Verkhovna Rada's (Ukrainian parliament) committee charged with national security and defense delayed the progress, on March 19, of Draft Law 8068 “On National Security” (Rada.gov.ua, accessed March 21), which had been submitted to the legislature by President Petro Poroshenko on February 28Ãâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
March 20, 2018
Since becoming independent in 1991, the countries of Central Asia, both individually and collectively, have been viewed by many outsiders and even some of their own people as the inevitable objects of politics rather than as potential subjects. The region is widely considered one of internationalÃâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
March 15, 2018
Sergei Skripal (66), a former Russian military intelligence (GRU) colonel, was arrested in Moscow in 2004 for allegedly being an agent of the United Kingdom's MI6 intelligence service. Skripal was convicted, in 2006, to serve 13 years in prison for treason. In 2010, he was pardoned, released and sent to theÃâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
March 8, 2018
During his annual address to the parliament, on March 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled an array of nuclear superweapons, claiming Russia has secretly overcome the mighty United States and assumed a dominant military position. Putin demanded the West now “negotiate,” which soundedÃâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
March 6, 2018
Georgian citizen Archil Tatunashvili died in custody in breakaway Tskhinvali Region (South Ossetia), on February 23 (Civil Georgia, February 23). Subsequently, the de-facto authorities have refused to hand over the body of the deceased (Civil Georgia, February 26) or to allow the return of two otherÃâà...
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