PSCRP-BESA Reports No 133 (May 23, 2025)
by Anna Ayvazyan
The overall situation between Armenia and Azerbaijan has undergone substantial changes in recent years. Both are engaged in peace negotiations that involve numerous difficult decisions on both sides – from …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 132 (May 17, 2025)
Russia officially became a nationalist state in the summer of 2020, when the constitution was amended[1] to declare Russian the state language as “the language of the state-forming people,” among other changes. …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 130 (May 12, 2025)
by Alexander Shpunt
Judging by the extremely cautious reports in analytical publications of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are at the final stage of the process of delimitation of the state border dividing …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 129 (May 06, 2025)
Ethnic policies of the USSR as a time bomb
Chechens (Nokhchi) and Ingush (Galgai) are two closely related peoples. Not only are they neighbors: they share religion (Sufi Sunnism), tribal (teip) social structure, …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 125 (May 02, 2025)
by Alexander Shpunt
The April issue of our monitoring turned out to have a certain bias towards historical themes. We did not plan this initially, but researchers are increasingly turning to historicism and …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 127 (April 22, 2025)
by Alexander Shpunt
In the first part of the study, we showed that it was the position of Georgia’s business elites that influenced the country’s political course, shifting its vector from European integration …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 126 (April 21, 2025)
Astrophysicists define a black hole as an object whose gravity is so intense that nothing — not even light — can escape once it crosses the event horizon. Since the Kremlin launched its …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 124 (April 11, 2025)
by Alexander Shpunt
Third Issue of Our Monitoring of Research and Reports on Socio-Political Developments in the Post-Soviet Space: Preliminary Insights from the First Hundred Days of 2025
The third issue of our …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 123 (April 7, 2025)
Ramzan Kadyrov is seriously ill. The exact diagnoses remain the subject of rumors and speculation, but the fact itself is undeniable. This is evidenced by the changes in the politician’s physical condition …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 122 (March 31, 2025)
by Alexander Shpunt
Just two years ago, the future political orientation of Armenia and Georgia toward closer ties with Western countries—primarily the European Union—appeared to have no alternative.
Immediately after Georgia gained independence …
