Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1986
Meet the bit players in Russia's media war;
Moscow plays Palestinian peacemaker
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The Slow Mobilization Toward War With Putin
Amid multiple signs of an impending battle in Ukraine, NATO and Ukraine have stepped up their response. But so has Russia.
Geopolitical costs of Moscow’s war against Ukraine
By July 2015 it was clear that Russia is paying a steep economic price for its war in Ukraine. Poverty, inflation, unemployment are all rising, the economy is shrinking, and foreign investment is drying up. Moscow had to cut spending on the 2018 FIFA World CUP, pensions, and infrastructure, not to mention health care, education, science and technology, and infrastructure, i.e. human and social capital.
Eurasia Security Watch: No. 341
ISIS imposes fuel blockade;
Bahrain seizes explosives bound for Saudi Arabia;
Libya's Tripoli forces hit ISIS;
Turkey warns U.S. about Kurdish advances in Syria;
Yemeni rebels persist
Global Islamism Monitor: No. 8
Al-Shabaab versus the AU;
The U.S. fight against ISIS, year one;
Trepidation in Paris...;
...and mobilization in Tunis;
Militant retribution in Egypt