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• JJamestown2026-10-14✓ Read

  Armenia’s ‘Assets-for-Debt’ Hinders Economic Decoupling from Russia (Part One)

  Executive Summary: Since Armenia’s independence in 1991, no government has made a greater effort than Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s administration to reduce Russia’s geopolitical influence. On October 12, Radio France International published an interview with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, in which he says Armenia’s relations with Russia will not be the same as before,

  
• JJamestown2026-10-14✓ Read

  AI Data Annotation Sector Sees Misaligned Progress

  Executive Summary: Hunan Daily recently reported that DeepSeek’s founder Liang Wenfeng (梁文锋) regards data annotation as the most important work at this stage in the industry’s development, and has half of the company’s core researchers working on it (Hunan Daily, September 16). Data annotation is the standardized labeling of raw data that allows machine learning

  
• JJamestown2026-10-13✓ Read

  Putin’s Early October Diplomacy Fails to Deliver

  Executive Summary: Early October was an extraordinarily busy time for Russian President Vladimir Putin. He started with the traditional session at the Valdai Discussion Club’s annual meeting, proceeded to the Center-2026 military exercise, and then departed for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) summit in Turkmenistan, during which he made time for a phone conversation

  
• JJamestown2026-10-09✓ Read

  Russians’ Post-Election Fears Partially Materialize

  Executive Summary: Rumors that a new formal wave of mobilization would follow the September 18–20 State Duma elections saturated the Russian media space for months. These fears now seem unlikely to materialize soon (Vazhnye Istorii, June 24). Russian society has come to expect unpopular measures after elections because Russian President Vladimir Putin established a pattern

  
• JJamestown2026-10-09✓ Read

  Türkiye Expands its Security Strategy in Libya

  Executive Summary: In late May, Türkiye hosted military training exercises that brought together personnel from Libya’s rival armed factions for the first time since the country’s post-2011 civil war began. The exercises saw the unprecedented participation of soldiers aligned with both the internationally recognized Government of National Unity (GNU) and the eastern-based Libyan National Army

  
• JJamestown2026-10-08✓ Read

  Russian Elections Reveal Federal Security Service’s Growing Power

  Executive Summary: Independent Russian and international observers have established an unprecedented level of falsification in the Russian parliamentary elections of September 18–20. Based on the results, the United Russia party will form the largest faction in the State Duma’s history, having received a constitutional majority. Independent Russian media report that the authorities began preparing the

  
• JJamestown2026-10-08✓ Read

  ‘Russian Citizens of Tajik Origin’ Pose New National Challenges for Moscow

  Executive Summary: More than 800,000 Tajiks have taken Russian citizenship over the last decade under a 1996 agreement that gives them a more or less automatic right to that status. This allows them to live without restrictions in the Russian Federation and to vote in Russian elections (see EDM, July 23). The group is now

  
• JJamestown2026-10-07✓ Read

  TRIPP Reorienting Armenia and Azerbaijan Toward the West

  Executive Summary: On August 28, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated at a press conference that Moscow can no longer be regarded as Yerevan’s strategic partner (Armenpress, August 27). His sharp rhetoric toward Russia is hardly unexpected, given that relations between Moscow and both Yerevan and Baku have recently deteriorated again. Yerevan attributes its stance

  
• JJamestown2026-10-07✓ Read

  Russia’s Invasion Spurs PLA Casualty Evacuation Developments

  Executive Summary: In mid-September, Chinese news outlets celebrated the 10th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Joint Logistics Support Force’s (JLSF) establishment. State media highlighted how the JLSF has established an integrated joint support capability over the last ten years focused on logistics, medical support, and transportation (CCTV, September 13). It has also expanded

  
• JJamestown2026-10-07✓ Read

  Russia and Pakistan Sign Deal on Rail Connectivity

  Executive Summary: On August 31, the Pakistani government announced that Pakistan Railways and Russian Railways Logistics (RZD Logistics) signed a freight forwarding contract establishing a framework for cooperation in international freight transportation. Under the deal, both countries will work toward launching a pilot container freight train route connecting Pakistan with Russia and Central Asia (Express

  
• JJamestown2026-10-06✓ Read

  Having Lost ‘Presidents,’ Ever More Russian Federal Subjects Now Have Prime Ministers

  Executive Summary: At Russian President Vladimir Putin’s insistence, Russia has only one president. After some resistance, the federal subjects were forced to stop calling their leaders presidents and instead refer to them as “heads” (Window on Eurasia, February 12, 2021). Since Russia’s war against Ukraine began in 2022, the number of federal subjects with their

  

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