The latest issue of the IISS Military Balance devotes 48 of its 500-odd pages to prevailing capabilities, trends and strategic economics in Russia and Eurasia, and 53 pages to the same region’s force strengths and defence spending.
The annual Military Balance of the International Institute for Strategic Studies highlights Russia’s effort to achieve a truly modern posture by 2020 – and the disjointed efforts of CIS members on behalf of security and stability in Eurasia.
The editor of one of Russia’s foremost analytical journals gives a sober account of Georgia's and Russia's best interests as a critical moment approaches in their apparently improved relations.
A newly published ‘briefing paper’ from Chatham House London is critical of the reliance put by Western governments on NGOs as a motor of post-Soviet democratisation.