Search: Belarus,South Caucasus (2 materials)

А Hen Hatching Ducklings

... swim. Today you can see our poor hen rushing along the riverbank and calling back home her beloved ducklings, but this is hopeless -they will never come back”. I recall this metaphor when I look at the current reaction from the Kremlin to events in Belarus, in the South Caucasus and in Kyrgyzstan. The ducklings — each of them in its own way — are deserting the henhouse and are trying to get to the river. Will they make it? Nobody knows for sure. Vladimir Putin, unlike Mikhail Gorbachev, does not watch this ...

15.10.2020

Challenges to Eurasian Security in the Coming Decade

... the Baltic region. Similarly, conducive to resolving crises would be the preservation of the Treaty on Open Skies and other transparency measures (observer missions during exercises and mutual notifications about planned drills and missile launches). Belarus as an island of stability Ekaterina Chimiris: Eastern Partnership Countries: Buffer Zone or Platform for Dialogue? Belarus has long remained an island of stability and security on the post-Soviet territory. It happily avoided the numerous nationalist ...

14.01.2020

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