The Fight for Russia’s Borderlands

The deal is unlikely to quell concerns about Russia using the pipeline to weaken Ukraine’s position as a transit state for natural gas.

To secure its influence over the ex-Soviet state, Russia will work to undermine the new parliament’s attempts to boost cooperation with the West.

Any Western response to the plane hijacking incident is unlikely to stop Lukashenko from continuing his crackdown on dissent.

Both Kyiv and Moscow will use the escalating tensions in eastern Ukraine for their own political purposes, risking a calculated or unintended return to full confrontation.

In this episode of Baker's Dozen, host Rodger Baker speaks with Lasha Kasradze, a Eurasia analyst who specializes in the Caucasus about Georgia and the tentative geopolitical situation of the Greater Caucasus, where great powers and lesser powers have been jockeying for position.

Despite widespread outrage over the terms of last year’s peace deal with Azerbaijan, Armenia's intensifying political crisis is unlikely to spark a resumption of war.

The growing number of military and private actors in the increasingly accessible region is raising the risk of miscommunication or miscalculation.