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This occasional report addresses the historical shift in the global natural gas industry away from overland pipeline deliveries and toward liquefied natural gas, as well as Russia's move toward becoming a leader in the emerging LNG market.
About the Eurasia Daily Monitor
Eurasia Daily Monitor is a publication of The Jamestown Foundation, based in Washington, D.C. Jamestown’s vanguard publication, the Eurasia Daily Monitor (EDM), was launched on May 3, 2004 and has since become a unique analytical resource on the emerging security realities in the former Soviet space. A reincarnation of the old Monitor publication, the Eurasia Daily Monitor surveys recent developments in Eurasia, placing the developments in a geo-strategic perspective and offering analysis that outlines their implications for the United States and the West. Led by a team of dedicated analysts, the contributors to EDM comprise a corps of experienced domestic and overseas analysts, whose skilled reporting is disseminated five days a week in a free electronic publication. With a readership of over 4,000 subscribers, the publication is widely used by U.S. government analysts and lawmakers, leaders and experts in the post-Soviet space, and everyday citizens who seek unbiased, unfiltered information that is not available through other channels.
About the EDM Analysts
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Salimjon Aioubov is a Senior Broadcaster with RFE/RL’s Tajik Service. |
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is the Executive Director of the Georgian NGO Democracy Resources Development Center. He has written extensively on Georgian domestic and foriegn politics. |
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Richard Arnold, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Muskingum University, where he teaches classes on Comparative Politics and International Relations. Dr. Arnold’s research focuses on xenophobic extremism in the Russian Federation and he has published papers in Nationalities Papers and Problems of Post-Communism on the Russian Neo-Nazi movement. He is also interested in Russian security more generally, including secessionism and radical Islam in the North Caucasus. |
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Director of Programs for the Balkans, Caucasus & Central Asia Margarita Assenova is a professional journalist and political analyst with over 25 years of experience in print and broadcast media, including Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty. In 1997 she was awarded the John Knight Professional Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University for her reporting on nationalism in the Balkans. Assenova has worked on democracy projects in Central-Eastern Europe and Central Asia for the International Republican Institute, Freedom House, the Institute for New Democracies, and the Woodrow Wilson Center forInternational Scholars in Washington, D.C. She currently serves as the Course Chair (Contractor) for Southeast Central Europe Advanced Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State. Assenova has authored book chapters on security, energy and democracy published by CSIS Press, Brassey’s, Freedom House, and Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers. |
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Dr. Pavel K. Baev is a senior researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). |
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Dr. Stephen Blank is a professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, PA. The views expressed here do not represent those of the U.S. Army, Defense Department, or the U.S. Government. |
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Birgit Brauer, Ph.D., is an Almaty-based analyst and journalist who writes for the The Economist and other publications on Central Asian affairs. |
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Elena Chinyaeva holds a doctorate in modern history from Oxford University and is a writer for Kommersant-Vlast, a leading Russian political weekly. |
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Emil Danielyan is a journalist and political analyst based in Armenia's capital Yerevan. He works for the Yerevan bureau of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and also writes regularly for a number of Western analytical sources . His main areas of interest are Armenian politics and economics, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Turkish-Armenian relations and regional security issues. Danielyan holds a Master's degree in political science from the American University of Armenia. |
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Victor Davidoff is a Moscow-based writer and journalist whose blog is chaadaev56.livejournal.com. |
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Munkh-Ochir Dorjjugder is an associate senior researcher at the Institute of Strategic Studies in Mongolia’s National Security Council. |
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teaches international relations and administration at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Federalism and Nationalism: the Struggle for Republican Rights in the USSR (1991), Central Asian States: Discovering Independence (1996), and Markets and Politics in Central Asia (2003) as well as scholarly articles in Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Asian Perspective and other journals. |
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Paul Goble is a longtime specialist on ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia. Most recently, he was director of research and publications at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy. Earlier, he served as vice dean for the social sciences and humanities at Audentes University in Tallinn and a senior research associate at the EuroCollege of the University of Tartu in Estonia. While there, he launched the “Window on Eurasia” series. Prior to joining the faculty there in 2004, he served in various capacities in the U.S. State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the International Broadcasting Bureau as well as at the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He writes frequently on ethnic and religious issues and has edited five volumes on ethnicity and religion in the former Soviet space. Trained at Miami University in Ohio and the University of Chicago, he has been decorated by the governments of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania for his work in promoting Baltic independence and the withdrawal of Russian forces from those formerly occupied lands. |
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Sergei Gretsky is the Chair of Central Asia Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute of the US Department of State. |
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has covered developments in the former Soviet Union for more than a decade and also carried out journalistic assignments in other parts of the world, including Africa and Latin America. He specializes in Russian domestic and foreign policy. |
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Umida Hashimova was born in Uzbekistan and moved to the U.S. in 2010. She studied at the University of Foreign Languages in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and the University of Essex in the UK. Back in Uzbekistan, she worked for the United Nations Development Program/Center for Economic Research and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. |
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Umida Hashimova is an independent scholar based in Washington, D.C. She is a native of Uzbekistan, where she used to work for the United Nations missions before moving to the U.S. |
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Fuad Huseinzadeh is a Baku-based journalist. |
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Grigory Ioffe is a Professor of Human Geography at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. |
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is a freelance writer based in Baku. He holds a master's degree from Washington University in St. Louis and currently works for Cornell Caspian Consulting. The views expressed in this article are solely his own and do not represent the views of this organization. |
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Dr. Idil P. Izmirli is a consultant on forcibly displaced persons (FDPs) in Crimea, Ukraine, for the OSCE's High Commissioner on National Minorities. |
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Jargalsaikhany Mendee is a political science PhD student at the University of British Columbia. He has worked at the Mongolian Ministry of Defense, Embassy in Washington, DC, and Institute for Strategic Studies. |
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Aida Kasymalieva is a leading expert from Kyrgyzstan who lives is Moscow and writes for RFE/RL and other outlets. |
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J. Bryan Kennard is a senior Political Science student at Muskingum University. |
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Jacob W. Kipp retired from federal service in September 2009 and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Kansas and a weekly columnist on Eurasian Security for the Jamestown Foundation. He received his PhD. in Russian History from the Pennsylvania State University in 1970. From 1971 to 1985 he taught Russian and Military History at the Kansas State University. In January 1986 he joined the newly founded Soviet Army Studies Office (SASO) at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, as a senior analyst. In 1991, SASO became the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO). In 2003, Dr. Kipp became director of FMSO and served in that capacity until October 2006, when he joined the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) as Deputy Director. He has published extensively on Russian and Soviet naval and military history. Topics have included Russian naval reform in the 19th century, Soviet naval history and analysis, operational art in theory and practice, and foresight and forecasting in Russian and Soviet military affairs. From 1992 to 2001 he served as the US editor of European Security. His most recent publications are: "Military Theory, Strategy, and Praxis," co-authored with Dr. Lester Grau, Military Review, (March-April 2011), pp. 12-22 and "Russian Military Doctrine: Past, Present, and Future," in: Stephen J. Blank, Russian Military Politics and Russia's 2010 Defense Doctrine, (Carlisle Barracks: PA: U. S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 2011), pp. 63-153 |
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Jiri Kominek is an independent journalist based in Prague. Since 1993 he has covered business, political and security developments throughout Central and Eastern Europe, the CIS and Central Asia for a variety of publicatons including Business New Europe, CNBC European Business and the Jane's Information Group. |
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Pavel Korduban is a freelance writer based in Kyiv. |
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Roman Kupchinsky was born in Vienna, Austria and immigrated to the United States in 1949. He graduated with a degree in Political Science from Long Island University; served in the US Army as a rifle platoon leader in Vietnam. From 1978-1988 was President of Prolog Research Corp., a Ukrainian language publishing house and research company. From 1990-2002 was Director of the Ukrainian service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. From 2002-2008 was a senior analyst at RFE/RL. He was the author of numerous articles on Ukrainian affairs, Russian energy and international politics. He edited RFE’s Organized Crime and Corruption Watch as well as two collections of samizdat articles “The Nationality Problem in the USSR” and “Pogrom in Ukraine”. He lived in Arlington, Virginia. Mr. Kupchinsky passed away in January, 2010. |
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Taras Kuzio is an Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Visiting Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University, in Washington D.C. He edits Ukraine Analyst. |
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Dr. George Mamulia is a politologist, a Former State Counselor of foreign affairs of the personal staff of the President of Georgia (in the period of Eduard Shevardnadze) and a former diplomat. He worked in the Embassy of Georgia in Moscow in 1995-2000. |
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Erica Marat, PhD, is an analyst and reporter at Voice of America's Russian Service. The views expressed here do not represent those of Voice of America, the Russian Service, or the U.S. Government. |
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David Marples is Professor of History and Classics at the University Alberta in Edmonton. He is the author of ten books on Soviet and post-Soviet affairs, including Belarus: From Soviet Rule to Nuclear Catastrophe (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996) and Belarus: A Denationalized Nation (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999). |
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Senior Fellow - Eurasia Program Roger N. McDermott specializes in Russian and Central Asian defense and security issues and is a Senior Fellow in Eurasian Military Studies, The Jamestown Foundation, Washington DC, Senior International Research Fellow for the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO), Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and Affiliated Senior Analyst, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen. McDermott is on the editorial board of Central Asia and the Caucasus and the scientific board of the Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies. He recently wrote The Reform of Russia’s Conventional Armed Forces: Problems, Challenges and Policy Implications (October 2011). |
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Giorgi Menabde is a journalist based in Georgia. |
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Francesco F. Milan is a PhD candidate and a teaching assistant in intelligence at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. He also works as a consultant and analyst on Turkey-related security and political matters. His publications are available at www.ffmilan.net. |
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Dumitru Minzarari is an OSI Doctoral Fellow with the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Previously he worked as a foreign and security policy analyst with the Moldova-based IDIS "Viitorul" think tank writing on national and international security. |
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Roman Muzalevsky works for iJet Intelligent Risk Systems, Inc. and is a Contributing Analyst at Wikistrat. He received his MA in International Affairs with concentration in Security and Strategy Studies from Yale University. |
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Farangis Najibullah is a writer for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. |
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Eric Norman is a freelance writer based in Azerbaijan. |
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Center for Strategic Studies, Azerbaijan |
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Mikko Patokallio is a senior contributor at The Ulkopolitist, the leading Finnish blog on foreign and security policy. |
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Jeremy Peterson is a Brussel’s based journalist with experience in investigating organized crime in Europe and Russia for EU governments and the Council of Europe. |
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Algirde Pipikaite is an expert on the Baltic States, especially political and international issues related to Lithuania. Moreover, she has international academic and professional experience working on European Union affairs. Ms. Pipikaite speaks fluent Lithuanian, English and German, and is proficient in Italian and French. Based in Washington, DC, she currently specializes in US policy toward the Eastern European and South Caucasus regions. |
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Vasili Rukhadze is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Kent State University, where he also teaches currently. He earned an M.A. in political science from the City University of New York. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University in 2007-2008. Mr. Rukhadze served as the Chairman of the Georgian Truth Commission from April to December 2010 (until the completion of the project). |
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Juha Saarinen is a senior contributor at The Ulkopolitist, the leading Finnish blog on foreign and security policy. |
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Dr. Zabikhulla S. Saipov was educated at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Currently he is a senior lecturer and foreign and domestic policy analyst at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy as well as the Management Development Institute of Singapore in Tashkent. The views expressed in the articles are entirely and solely of the author and do not necessarily reflect official thinking or policy either of the university, institute or any other government agency of the Republic of Uzbekistan. |
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Anvar Sattori is an expert on Tajikistan and Central Asia. |
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Farkhad Sharip is an independent journalist who lives in Alma-Aty, Kazakhstan. |
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Myles G. Smith is an analyst and consultant based in Central Asia. |
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Vladimir Socor is a Senior Fellow of the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation and its flagship publication, Eurasia Daily Monitor (1995 to date), where he writes analytical articles on a daily basis. An internationally recognized expert on the former Soviet-ruled countries in Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia, he covers Russian and Western policies, focusing on energy, regional security issues, Russian foreign affairs, secessionist conflicts, and NATO policies and programs. Mr. Socor is a frequent speaker at U.S. and European policy conferences and think-tank institutions; as well as a regular guest lecturer at the NATO Defense College and at Harvard University’s National Security Program’s Black Sea Program. He is also a frequent contributor to edited volumes. Mr. Socor was previously an analyst with the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (1983-1994). He is a Romanian-born citizen of the United States based in Munich, Germany. |
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Aybeniz Turan is an expert on the South Caucasus and an analyst for The Jamestown Foundation. |
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Seyitbek Usmanov is the Head of Research at the Central Asian Free Market Institute |
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Oleg Varfolomeyev is a journalist based in Kyiv, Ukraine. He covers economic and political developments in Ukraine and Belarus for analytical network CEEMarketWatch and also writes regularly for a number of other Western sources. He received a Master's degree in Political Science from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. |
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Mark Vinson is an expert on Tajikistan. |
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Georgiy Voloshin is an international affairs expert widely published on issues related to Eurasian politics, with a special focus on Central Asia. More information about him can be found on his personal website gevoloshin.com. |
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Marat Yermukanov is a journalist working for the Russian-language private newspaper "Panorama Nedely" in Petropavlovsk, North Kazakhstan, and is also a regional correspondent for the Almaty-based national weekly "Panorama." |
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As the first and so far only Russian correspondent for TIME magazine since August 1988, Zarakhovich has been covering events like the breakup of the Soviet Union, the failed attempt of democracy in a new Russia, and the return of authoritarianism. He has also previously worked at the Associated Press, and in 1998 he was granted a Ph.D. in history for his research of the U.S. press coverage of Islamic Renaissance in the post-Soviet Space. |
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Vasily Zatsepin is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department for Military Economics, Institute for the Economy in Transition, Moscow. |
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Sufian Zhemukhov is currently a visiting scholar at George Washington University. |
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Taleh Ziyadov is a research fellow at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADA) and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge (UK). |
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Ilia Zviadauri is a Georgian researcher and analyst. |
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