Publication

This issue includes articles on 1) the repercussions of separatist referendums in eastern Ukraine for the North Caucasus, 2) Russia’s energy strategy and its impact on Azerbaijan-Russia relations, 3) US policy towards the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, 4) changes in the political landscape in Abkhazia and South Ossetia in spring 2014. It also contains field reports discussing 1) military cooperation between Tajikistan and Belarus, 2) a state visit to Turkey by Kyrgyzstan’s president in June 2014, 3) political violence in Georgia before the June 2014 local elections, and 5) Tajikistan authorities' control over civil society ahead of the 2015 elections.