PSCRP-BESA Reports No 109 (Jan 13, 2025)
In December 2024, Mart Kalm, the rector of the Estonian Academy of Arts (Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, EKA), announced that this university would not continue its cooperation with Dr. Jonathan Ventura from Shenkar College in …
The majority of PSCRP materials in the final month of 2024 concentrated on the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
In two subsequent papers, Ze’ev Khanin analyzes the difficulties that accompany US President-elect Donald Trump’s ambitious goals to end the …
In November 2024, the PSCRP program at the BESA Center published analytical materials covering three subregions of the post-Soviet area, namely, Central Asia, “the West” (focusing this time on Moldova, Ukraine, and Russia), and the South Caucasus.
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In October 2024, the PSCRP program’s publications covered most sub-regions of the post-Soviet area.
Velvl Chernin presents his analysis of a shootout that occurred in September in the Russian capital, near the office of the Wildberries marketplace. He views this …
In September 2024, the Post-Soviet Conflicts Research Program focused on two broad regional clusters, namely Russia and the South Caucasus.
Gela Vasadze reviews the expectations in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia from the upcoming US elections. To Armenia, the victory of …
In August 2024, the PSCRP analysis revolved mostly around the issues of Russia’s internal and external politics.
Andrei Kazantsev-Vaisman analyzes the ethnopolitical meanings of the public scandal surrounding Wildberries, Russia’s biggest marketplace, that involves Dagestani and Chechen interest groups. The …
In July 2024, the research conducted by the BESA PSCRP analysts was thematically dominated by the events in the Caucasus, both South and North.
The “North Caucasian” block comprised the materials by Velvl Chernin and Alex Greenberg.
A violent terrorist …
In June 2024, the materials published by the BESA Post-Soviet Conflicts Research Program covered the recent developments in the South Caucasus, as well as the projections of the regional dynamics on the geopolitical stances of Israel and France.
Gela Vasadze …
In May 2024, the PSCR program’s research focused, as always, on the political dynamics in various post-Soviet regions, and the external dimensions of post-Soviet foreign politics.
Andrei Kazantsev-Vaisman, in his analysis of the new Russian foreign policy ideology of “anti-colonialism,” …
In April 2024, the PSCR program’s materials covered the conflictual dynamics in and around Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Armenia, and Estonia.
Velvl Chernin analyzes the content, timing, and potential significance of the presidential decree “On the territories of the Russian Federation historically …
