Eurasia / Opinion

Are Georgia and Serbia heading for coloured revolutions?

Clare Nuttall in Glasgow January 23, 2025

As protests swell in Georgia and Serbia, the critical question is whether demonstrators will force change or prove ineffective against their deeply entrenched ruling elites.

URUS-ClearPic: Across Eurasia, China is leveraging supply risk successfully – so could others

Alexander Teddy and Alexander Sherwood of Urus Advisory January 23, 2025

In late 2001, when much of the world – especially the US and the West – was preoccupied by 9/11 and the resulting military campaigns, China acceded to the World Trade Organisation. This marked a shift in its global trade and China’s playbook.

COMMENT: Armenia makes a strategic turn from Russia towards the West

Robert Ananyan in Yerevan January 16, 2025

Moscow realises it is losing Armenia, which has been considered its main ally in the South Caucasus for decades.

PANNIER: Tajikistan, Taliban tone down the hostile rhetoric

Bruce Pannier January 9, 2025

Grudging acceptance that relations need to improve seen in Dushanbe and Kabul.

COMMENT: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and China accelerate efforts to expand the Middle Corridor

Seymur Mammadov in Baku December 11, 2024

Pressing need for expanded infrastructure as freight traffic along the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route increases.

Is Georgia having its EuroMaidan?

Clare Nuttall in Glasgow December 4, 2024

As in Ukraine's EuroMaidan revolution, Georgia's protests are directed at a leader with links to Russia who was attempting to pull the country away from its pro-EU path.

INTERVIEW: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank financing Central Asia’s green future

bne IntelliNews November 25, 2024

The Chinese-owned multilateral development bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), has become a major player in Eurasia and a driving force between driving sustainable development in the region.

INTERVIEW: Mobilising private finance for a greener future

Clare Nuttall in Glasgow November 22, 2024

EBRD director of sustainable business Gianpiero Nacci details how MDBs are bringing in private investment to help close the climate finance gap.

COMMENT: Will COP29 become a milestone in Azerbaijan’s long-term energy strategy?

Fuad Shahbazov in Durham November 21, 2024

After years of reliance on fossil fuel exports, Azerbaijan is steadily switching to renewable energy sources.

COMMENT: After a slow start, the Georgian protests are gathering momentum

Neil Hauer in Tbilisi November 21, 2024

The opposition initially appeared caught by surprise by Georgian Dream's election fraud, and lost all momentum and international media attention, but the protests are now visibly more energised.

COMMENT: Biden makes last gasp attempt to reach Armenian-Azerbaijani peace deal

Robert Ananyan in Yerevan November 1, 2024

If Donald Trump is elected president of the US, the likelihood of war being resumed by Azerbaijan will increase, and the signing of a treaty may become impossible.

COMMENT: The outlook for Armenia-Turkey normalisation

Richard Giragosian in Yerevan November 1, 2024

There is a renewed sense of movement in the process of “normalisation” between Armenia and Turkey, but progress has been impeded by Ankara's unwillingness to do anything that undermines its relationship with Azerbaijan.

CENUSA: Georgia's general election creates a dilemma for the EU

Denis Cenusa in Germany October 28, 2024

The general election in Georgia showed the EU is having difficulty in influencing public perception in the country.

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