Tag Archives: Caucasus and Central Asia

  1. View of Mount Ararat in Turkey from Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, November 18, 2004 (Scott LaPierre)

    Accidental War Waiting to Happen on Europe’s Periphery

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    The shimmering Nagorno-Karabakh conflict threatens to upset the regional balance of power and cut European oil supplies.

  1. Pipeline construction in the Black Sea (Gazprom)

    Time for Compromise On Trans Caspian Pipeline

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    Wikistrat analysts say the time is ripe for an energy deal between Europe and Russia on Caspian Sea exports.

  1. Pakistani men unload supplies delivered by a United States Army Chinook helicopter in Matlatan, Pakistan on September 28, 2010 (Sergeant Jason Bushong)

    No Good Ways Out of Afghanistan

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    Air and land routes out of the country are either insufficient or troublesome. Leaving Afghanistan is logistically difficult.

  1. Presidents Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Emomalii Rahmon of Tajikistan during a joint press conference, September 4, 2011

    Tajikistan: Between A Rock, A Hard Place And Iran

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    As the United States plot their exit from Afghanistan, they’re making efforts to reenlist Central Asian support.

  1. Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, November 15, 2011

    Medvedev Predicts Eurasian Union By 2015

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    It may prove a tough sell to non-Russian peoples that they will not be junior partners in orbiting Kremlin interests.