PSCRP-BESA Reports No 169 (December 5, 2025)
For Russia’s neighbors, proximity is a liability — and Kazakhstan may want to study how the Baltic states are preparing for the next shock.
Living next door to the Russian Federation is less …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 168 (November 29, 2025)
By Alexander Shpunt
The watchword of our October monitoring issue is “Method.” This edition brings together unusual, at times even exotic, yet strictly academic materials. It so happened that in October several works …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 167 (November 24, 2025)
By Alexander Shpunt
In the first part of our study we examined the social and political role of “SVO veterans” in the contemporary political and public landscape of Russia. We concluded that this …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 165 (November 16, 2025)
By Alexander Shpunt
The military phase of the conflict in the south-east of Russia and Ukraine is far from over. More than 700,000 Russian servicemembers are simultaneously “on the line of contact”—and …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 164 (November 15, 2025)
Kazakhstan’s decision to join the Abraham Accords did more than place its signature on yet another international agreement. It re-arranged the mental map of Eurasia. To put it plainly, this marks the …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 161 (October 26, 2025)
The ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) won the parliamentary elections held in Moldova on September 28, gaining an absolute majority with 50.2% of the vote and 55 out of 101 …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 160 (October 23, 2025)
The arrest of Bishop Mkrtich Proshyan and several priests in mid-October 2025 has deepened tensions between the Armenian government and the Armenian Apostolic Church, an institution whose leadership maintains historic and political …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 159 (October 17, 2025)
by Alexander Shpunt
David Aprasidze’s article “Civil society and anti-corruption reform in Georgia: revisiting the rose revolution”, published on September 18, 2025, in Frontiers in Political Science, offers a …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 157 (October 6, 2025)
When a former U.S. ambassador says Washington has effectively abandoned Central Asia to Russia and China, it’s not idle chatter. Daniel Rosenblum, who served as ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2019 to 2022 …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 155 (September 28, 2025)
At the United Nations General Assembly this year, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov did not disguise where Bishkek’s loyalties lie. In his speech, he castigated Western sanctions on Kyrgyz banks and reaffirmed …
