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Volatile Borderland: Russia and the North Caucasus
May 20, 2011 09:54 AM
In Volatile Borderland: Russia and the North Caucasus, The Jamestown Foundation presents a collection of essays by leading experts on the North Caucasus that allows for an in-depth look at the key dev...
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May 10, 2013
Moldova’s governing Alliance for European Integration (AEI) has collapsed in slow motion, de facto in February and officially on April 22. Interrelated with this development, the Liberal-Democrat Party of Vlad Filat has reversed...
Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, Home Page, Featured, Domestic/Social, Moldova , Vlad’s Corner
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May 14, 2013
In an effort to control “banditry” and rebel activity in the North Caucasus region, Russia’s Ministry of Interior is returning its sole armored train to service on the often dangerous rail lines of southern Russia. The main...
Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, North Caucasus Analysis, Home Page, Military/Security, The Caucasus, North Caucasus , Russia
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May 13, 2013
Russia has captured much political attention in the West in the last few days because of its allegedly central role in the deadlocked civil war in Syria. Yet, in the domestic debates—boiling hot despite the holiday season—Syria...
Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, Home Page, Featured, Domestic/Social, Foreign Policy, Syria, Russia
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May 13, 2013
In a stream of statements from Brussels and Strasbourg, European Union leaders sound shocked by the demise of Moldova’s tripartite Alliance for European Integration (AEI), and more generally by the collapse of Moldova’s...
Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, Vlad’s Corner, Home Page, Domestic/Social, Foreign Policy, Europe, Moldova
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May 10, 2013
Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria on May 12 are unlikely to ease tensions after weeks of public protests against poverty and corruption brought the government down in February. Nor will the vote open the way for economic reform...
Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, Home Page, Featured, Bulgaria
Ombatse: Nigerian Religious Cult Joins War on the State in Central Nigeria
Nigeria has experienced years of sectarian violence between Christians and Muslims and endured massacres and bombings by religiously-inspired groups like Boko Haram. Now, however, with the slaughter of as many as 90 members of...
Growing Sense of Polarization and Escalating Tensions in Crimea Ahead of 69th Anniversary of Crimean Tatar Deportation
May 17, 2013
Each year on May 18, around 25,000–30,000 Crimean Tatars gather in Crimea’s capital Simferopol to commemorate the 1944 deportation of their parents and grandparents from their historical homeland. They come to Simferopol from all...
Crimean Tatars to Protest Ukrainian Actions on Deportation Anniversary
May 17, 2013
Tomorrow (May 18) marks the 69th anniversary of Joseph Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatar nation from their homeland on trumped-up charges of collaboration with the Germans during World War II. And once again, Crimean...
Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan Presidential Summit Boosts Joint Ties
May 17, 2013
Turkmenistani President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov made a state visit to Kazakhstan on May 10–11. Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev said that his counterpart’s visit “demonstrates the mutual desire to develop these...
Sources of Moldova’s Political Chaos: The Parliamentary System
May 17, 2013
Moldova’s tripartite government, the Alliance for European Integration (AEI), has foundered over its internal contradictions, and will no longer be resuscitated in its previously existing form. Two of AEI’s parties have scuttled...
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May 17, 2013
ARABS AND TUAREG CLASH IN STRUGGLE FOR DESTINY OF NORTHERN MALI
Andrew McGregor
New fighting between northern Mali’s Arab community and the Tuareg rebels working with French intervention forces in the region threatens to...
Reports
Militant Leadership Monitor - April Issue
April 29, 2013
This issue of Militant Leadership Monitor includes profiles of Saudi Arabia's Ahmed Abdullah Saleh al-Khazmari al-Zahrani, AQIM's Jemal Oukacha, Libya's Isa Amd al-Majid, the Niger Delta's al-Haji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari (Part Two),...
Militant Leadership Monitor - March Issue
March 29, 2013
This issue of Militant Leadership Monitor includes in-depth analyses of Ansaru's Khalid al-Barnawi, the Niger Delta's al-Haji Mujahid Dokubu-Asari, succession scenarios after Talabani, and the second part of a who's who in...
Hot Issues
To gain a perspective on so-called “home grown” jihadist terrorism, two models are especially enlightening. The first is the report by the New York City Police Department (NYPD): “Radicalization In The West: The Home Grown Threat.” The other model is prescriptive and can be found in the writings of al-Qaeda authors.
Events
Breaking News:
Religious Liberties and Radicalism in Kazakhstan
May 7, 2013 09:00 AM
Featuring
Kairat Lama SharifChairman of the Religious Affairs Agency in Kazakhstan
The Jamestown Foundation invites you to a roundtable discussion with Kairat Lama Sharif, Chairman of the Re...
Media Appearances
Jamestown President Glen Howard quoted by The New York Times
May 17, 2013Jamestown President Glen Howard was quoted by The New York Times in an article titled "Chechen Refugee Questioned in F.B.I.'s Inquiry of Bombing."
Jacob Zenn interviewed by Voice of America
May 15, 2013Jacob Zenn was interviewed by Voice of America about Boko Haram and security in northeastern Nigeria.
Press Releases
Jamestown Foundation Responds to False Izvestia Article
April 26, 2013FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Matthew [email protected]
The Jamestown Foundation categorically rejects the content and premise of the April 24 report by the Russian newspaper Izvestia, which suggested that...
Jamestown Analyst Jacob Zenn Testifies Before Congressional Committee on Extremist Threats in Central Asia
March 15, 2013FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Matthew Czekaj
202.483.8888
Jamestown Foundation Analyst Jacob Zenn testified on February 27, 2013, before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on Europe,...
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