PSCRP-BESA Reports No 248 (November 4, 2026)
by Boris Ginzburg
In 2026, state elections were scheduled in five German federal states. Germany’s centrist forces are coming under increasing pressure due to the electoral successes of the far right and the …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 247 (November 3, 2026)
by Alexander Shpunt
On July 22, 2026, President Ilham Aliyev enacted amendments strengthening the secular principle in education and instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to bring school uniform regulations into line with the …
In October 2026, the PSCR program’s analytical reports dealt with the political and economic developments across the entire post-Soviet area, including Central Asia, the South Caucasus, the Baltics, and even the Russian-speaking repatriates residing in Israel.
Kiryl Kascian reflects on …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 245 (October 24, 2026)
by PSCRP team
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Samarkand, with a large business delegation behind him, shows how highly Washington now rates Central Asia. A region that Moscow long treated as …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 242 (October 24, 2026)
The Social Anthropology of Russian-Speaking Israel’s Divergent Immigrant Clusters and Their Unmet Political Demand
by Alexander Shpunt
At first glance, the social anthropology of Israeli society appears to fall outside the scope of …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 241 (October 21, 2026)
In September 2026, the book “Znykla tsyvilizatsiia — nepomichena katastrofa” (Perished Civilization — An Overlooked Catastrophe) by a Ukrainian historian writing under the pseudonym Kuzari was published in Ukraine by the …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 239 (October 16, 2026)
Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Azerbaijan to attend the Seventh Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA). Addressing the summit, he emphasized, among other things, that Azerbaijan, …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 238 (October 14, 2026)
by Gershon Kogan
More than three decades after the Soviet collapse, analysts still ask whether Central Asia is “Islamizing.” The question assumes a single Islam and a single direction of travel, and it …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 237 (October 11, 2026)
On October 2, Ilham Aliyev told the congress of his ruling New Azerbaijan Party in Baku that the world has two superpowers and “there is no third.” Russia went unnamed. Six days later, …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 236 (October 8, 2026)
by Kiryl Kascian
The 2026 Saeima election again offered Latvia’s Russophone electorate several distinct political choices. Sovereign Power/Young Latvians (SV/AJ) received 11.71% of the national vote, while Latvia First (LPV) secured 13.08%. For …
