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The Jamestown Foundation

The Jamestown Foundation

Contributor since: 17 Dec 2014

The Jamestown Foundation

Founded in 1984, The Jamestown Foundation is an independent, non-partisan research institution dedicated to providing timely information concerning critical political and strategic developments in China, Russia, Eurasia and the world of terrorism. Jamestown produces three periodic publications: Eurasia Daily Monitor, Terrorism Monitor and China Brief. Jamestown research and analysis is available to the public free of charge via Jamestown’s website, www.jamestown.org.

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    Published 26 January 2019 | viewed 11,196 times

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  • Germany Moves Forward With Controversial Nord Stream Two

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  • Georgia To Purchase Natural Gas Only From Azerbaijan

    Published 17 February 2018 | viewed 14,736 times

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  • Ukraine Looks To Boost Domestic Nuclear Capacity

    Published 10 February 2018 | viewed 10,174 times

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  • Moscow Braces For More U.S. Sanctions

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  • Fuel Crisis Hits Kazakhstan Hard

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    Despite being the second-largest oil producer and exporter in the former Soviet Union, only behind Russia, Kazakhstan has been historically plagued by chronic deficits of…

  • Putin Aims To Profit From China’s Silk Road Initiative

    Published 11 November 2017 | viewed 10,967 times

    Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft continues to think big and strike major deals on the global stage. It recently announced a program to sell bonds…

  • Can Ukraine Combat Its Natural Gas Crisis?

    Published 04 November 2017 | viewed 11,691 times

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  • Rosneft Looks To Expand Its South American Portfolio

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  • Erdogan And Putin Expand Military, Economic And Energy Relations

    Published 05 August 2017 | viewed 10,141 times

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an met with his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin, at the G20 summit, held in Hamburg, Germany, on July 8. Their…

  • Ukraine Aims To Join European Power Grid

    Published 15 July 2017 | viewed 7,880 times

    The Ukrainian state operator of power transmission lines, Ukrenergo, signed an agreement on June 28 with the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity…

  • Middle East Tensions Put China In A Difficult Position

    Published 08 July 2017 | viewed 12,349 times

    On June 5, Saudi Arabia announced it was cutting diplomatic ties with Qatar and closing its land border in response to Qatar “supporting terrorism.” Bahrain,…

  • Armenia To Choose Between Energy Diversification And Loyalty To Russia

    Published 01 July 2017 | viewed 15,125 times

    In mid-June, the CEO of Russia’s gas monopolist Gazprom, Alexei Miller, paid a spontaneous visit to Yerevan, where he met with Armenia’s Prime Minister Karen…

  • Russian Cyber Strength Pushes EU Into The Modern Era

    Published 25 June 2017 | viewed 14,155 times

    On June 14, during the first international Global Cybersecurity Summit, in Kyiv, the secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, Oleksandr Turchynov, stated…

  • Is Russia Overextending Itself In The Middle East?

    Published 18 June 2017 | viewed 14,676 times

    Russia’s best chances to claim a prominent role in the Middle East usually come amidst a regional escalation of tensions. But the confluence of diplomatic…

  • Ukraine Says No To Russian Coal, Gas – Favors Nuclear Power

    Published 20 May 2017 | viewed 13,640 times

    In spite of a blockade on shipments of anthracite coal from occupied Donbas to Ukrainian thermal power plants (TPPs) since this past winter, the country…

  • Is China Overreaching In Its Global Power Play?

    Published 13 May 2017 | viewed 13,710 times

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  • Olive Trees vs Pipelines: Will The TAP Pipeline Ever Be Completed?

    Published 30 April 2017 | viewed 8,303 times

    On April 6, Italy’s Lazio Regional Administrative Court (LRAC) suspended the environmental impact permit for the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), which would have allowed for the…

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