PSCRP-BESA Reports No 33 (February 7, 2024)
Transnistria (officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic) is one of the three quasi-state entities, along with South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which still exist today, created on the initiative and with the active support of …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 31 (January 26, 2024)
Bashkortostan (Bashkiria) is one of the most economically developed subjects of the Russian Federation. It has large reserves of oil, gas, gold and other minerals. It refines oil, produces gasoline (1/6 of the …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 28 (January 14, 2024)
“Sakha” is the endonym of the Yakuts, a Turkic people whose ancestors migrated to what is now Yakutia in the 14th-15th centuries, partly displacing, partly assimilating the Evenks, who had moved into the …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 26 (January 7, 2024)
Although religion is nominally separate from the state in the Russian Federation, de facto religious structures have become an integral part of the state apparatus. Russia’s top Orthodox and Muslim clergy unequivocally supported …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 23 (December 30, 2023)
Located in the very southeast of Europe, Kalmykia, a subject of the Russian Federation in the lower Volga region, has almost never been in the spotlight of the global community.
The historical fate …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 19 (December 10, 2023)
In February 2022, launching a full-scale aggression against Ukraine, the top military and political leadership of the Russian Federation was counting on a blitzkrieg. However, by now the war has been going on …
