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CHINESE SECURITY INTERESTS IN CENTRAL ASIA

VLADIMIR PARAMONOV, OLEG STOLPOVSKI
Independent experts, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Eurasian Home with a kind permission of Defence Academy of the United Kingdom publishes an analytical report on Chinese politics in Central Asia, written by Vladimir Paramonov and Oleg Stolpovski.

VISIT OF ARMENIAN PRESIDENT SERZH SARGSYAN TO MOSCOW

ALEXANDER ISKANDARYAN
Director of Caucasus Media Institute, Yerevan, Armenia

The Russian-Armenian relations can be regarded as invariably good and stable. So, the visit of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to Moscow could not change the Russian-Armenian relations drastically. For all that, it was of great importance.

INTEGRATION IMITATION WILL CONTINUE. DMITRY MEDVEDEV AND VLADIMIR PUTIN’S TACTICS AGAINST ALIAKSANDR LUKASHENKA

YAROSLAV ROMANCHUK
President of the Minsk-based Mizes Center, Belarus

Moscow’s main aim is to stop the parasitical relations with Lukashenka's regime without serious damage to the cooperation, and to establish friendly but, at the same time, pragmatic relations with the Belarusian state, which let the Kremlin keep Minsk in Russia’s sphere of influence.

THE NEW RUSSIAN PRESIDENT AND BELARUS: SLUGGISH POLITICAL EMANCIPATION, ACTIVE ECONOMIC EXPANSION?

BELARUSIAN INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES, NASHA NIVA WEEKLY, MINSK

Presidential elections in Russia have been an event of international importance. A succession scenario had been implemented, although the former President, Vladimir Putin, still controls power being the Prime-Minister and the leader of the largest faction in the State Duma. What does this mean for Belarus?

analysis

RUSSIAN OIL AND GAS PROJECTS AND INVESTMENTS IN CENTRAL ASIA

Eurasian Home publishes the report ”Russian Oil and Gas Projects and Investments in Central Asia” by independent analysts Vladimir Paramonov and Aleksey Strokov (Tashkent, Uzbekistan).

BELARUS' RELATIONS WITH UKRAINE AND LITHUANIA BEFORE AND AFTER THE 2006 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

Eurasian Home with a kind permission of The Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS) publishes an article "Belarus' Relations with Ukraine and Lithuania Before and After the 2006 Presidential Elections", written by the BISS analyst Dzianis Melyantsou and Andrei Kazakevich, professor at the European Humanities University (Vilnius).

opinion

John Marone

PLAYING UP TO PUTIN

Last weekend saw the visit of Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to Moscow, where she met with Vladimir Putin for the first time since he went from being Russia’s president to heading his country’s government. During the joint press conference both premiers chose their words carefully, demonstrating the sensitivity of current Russian-Ukrainian relations.

digest

THE RUSSIAN PRESS, JULY 3

Gazeta.ru, Kommersant: Putin strips foreign NGOs of tax privileges; RBC Daily: Britain trying to force Russia to interfere in TNK-BP row; Vremya Novostei: Major gas exporters want to change oil and gas pricing balance.

RFE/RL: GUA? MULLING MOLDOVA'S ABSENCE AS SUMMIT BEGINS

Officials from Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova are in the Georgian city of Batumi for the first day of the two-day GUAM summit.

ZERKALO NEDELI: PRESIDENT ALTERING HIS JUMPING LEG?

Three months away, a new mark appeared on Ukraine’s policy map. Those who put the mark have declared very clearly and loudly their political and electoral ambitions by intending to consolidate under the United Center Party’s roof as many as possible political forces engaged by the President and his administration.