In Central Asia, geography has not apportioned access to natural resources equally. Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, its five Central Asian successor states have had no central mechanism to redistribute resources and thus overcome each’s a deficiency. Kyrgyzstan, while not blessed with the oil wealth of
As the dust settles on last year’s forty-four-day Nagorno-Karabakh War, questions have been raised over the purpose and value of the OSCE Minsk Group. Created in 1992 under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the group has sought to facilitate a peaceful resolution to the
Amid escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine, the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Denis Pushilin, announced the separatist region’s first-ever programme of military conscription on Thursday, April 1st. Citizens born between 1994 and 2003 will be eligible for the draft, which is currently legislated to last until July
The U.K. government has announced plans to reverse 30 years of gradual nuclear disarmament in its Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, published on 16th March. Increasing the self-imposed limit on Trident nuclear warheads, from 180 to 260, is perhaps the policy document’s most eye-catching decision, though
The Chairman of the State Council of Crimea, Vladimir Konstantinov, announced on Wednesday 10th March that the body is planning to bring a “lawsuit against Ukraine due to the losses caused to the peninsula by the water blockade.” Since April 2014, shortly after the Russian annexation of Crimea, the Ukrainian
On February 16th, 2021, the BBC’s Panorama programme broadcasted a series of previously unseen videos in which Princess Latifa Al Maktoum alleged she was being held hostage. The daughter of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai, claimed she had been imprisoned by her father in a Dubai
