Publication

This issue contains articles on 1) the impact of Kazakhstan's joining the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) on the country's economy; 2) Russia's policy towards separatist regions in Ukraine and Georgia; 3) Pakistan and Afghanistan's signing of a intelligence agency cooperation deal; and 4) relations between Turkey and Armenia following the former's June 2015 parliamentary elections. It also includes field articles on 1) the defection of senior members of Georgia's main opposition party, the United National Movement (UNM); 2) the passing of a law in Kyrgyzstan, under which NGOs receiving funding from abroad will be labeled “foreign agents”; 3) the internal investigations in Azerbaijan's foreign ministry over the comments of a diplomat who publicly criticized the government after a deadly fire in a Baku apartment building; and 4) EU-Armenia relations.