Category: Conflict Zones

Thoughts on Hybrid Flirtation and Hybrid Alliance

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Oleksiy Volovych The hybrid Russian-Israeli flirtation (or rather, the flirtation between Putin and Netanyahu) is perceived with great irritation in Damascus, Tehran and Ankara. Against this background, the coalition RF — TR — IRI looks hybrid, unstable, contradictory, and therefore — transient. It seems that in the political sense, for the Russian leadership, relations with Israel are more important than with Iran and Turkey.     The article is available in Ukrainian

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New Threats to Central Asia

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Vadym Volokhov In the spring of 2019, we should expect aggravation of the military-political situation on the Tajik-Afghan border, in Tajikistan and in the South-East of Uzbekistan. It is unlikely that the fighting of the ISIS and the Tajik opposition will become large-scale one, since both Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are members of the “Shanghai Cooperation Organization” and of the “Collective Security Treaty Organization”, and the charts of these organizations provide for “strengthening peace, international and regional security, collective defense of independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of member states”. The potential of member countries is relatively higher than that…

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Moscow Is Playing the Taliban

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Vadym Volokhov November 9, 2018, Moscow hosted negotiations and consultations with the participation of the Taliban on “peaceful settlement in Afghanistan”. The talks were attended by representatives of Russia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The United States was also invited, but its representative was not there. Here one should understand that Russia is not a direct participant in the negotiations, but acted as an intermediary and provided a place for the meeting. And here again the question arises: “Why did Russia go for legitimization of the Taliban movement, which in itself is…

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