Bradley Jardine

Last month, Muftah reported on the militarization of the Arctic region and its repercussions for global security. This week, Foreign Policy magazine released...

In response to reports of Russian “military buildup” in Syria, Russia's Foreign Ministry expressed outrage at the “strange hysteria” over Moscow’s...

It is no secret that Central Asia’s autocratic regimes have a disdain for independent thought and criticism. While journalists have regularly been...

Amidst a growing and aggressive campaign against political opposition, Tajik authorities have changed the rules of the game, by banning their most prominent...

On August 19, Kazakhstan’s currency, the tenge, was devalued by 4.5 percent to just 197.28 tenge per U.S. dollar. This is the steepest decline in the...

“The latest ‘land-grab,’ so to speak, is part of tactic of intimidation. Once Georgia makes moves towards the West, Moscow shows how displeased it is....

On August 11, Uzbekistan’s president, Islam Karimov, signed a new amendment to the citizenship law allowing for citizenship to be stripped from anyone who...

Eurasia is a geopolitical term that has become synonymous with post-Soviet states, particularly, Russia, the Central Asian republics, and the Transcaucasian...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union launched the most ambitious military map-making campaign the world had ever seen. The Soviet maps were so meticulous that...

Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi’s visit to Turkmenistan on July 10, part of an ambitious tour of Central Asia, could have been a prime opportunity for...

The American travel writer and humorist, Ian Frazier, once remarked that “Siberia is so big, it’s almost more an idea than a place.” Indeed, the...

In Turkmenistan, when elites want to boost their image the masses often pay the price. Frequently listed among the world’s worst in terms of respecting...

In 1904, the British Royal Geographic Society’s Halford John Mackinder penned the geostrategic concept of “heartland theory.” The theory has been central...

In November 2013, a small protest in Ukraine quickly transformed into a complex geopolitical stand-off between Russia and the West. In response to Russia’s...

I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programs are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national...

“These be the sort" — she took a fine judicial tone, and stuffed her mouth with paan — "These be the sort to oversee justice. They know the land and the...

Amidst pompous celebrations on May 25, Turkmenistan’s government revealed a giant, twenty-four-carat gold lined statue of President Gurbanguly...

China is exerting pressure on its partners in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to expatriate "suspect" Chinese citizens, many of whom are of...

For many, Central Asia is an enigma. The former heartland of the Great Silk Road - which connected markets in medieval Europe with those in China - the region...

Derbent, a town in the Republic of Dagestan, is the oldest city in the Russian Federation. Its name - from the Persian word “Darband,” meaning “locked...

On April 29, in his annual state-of-the-nation address, the controversial Belarussian president, Alexander Lukashenko, criticized a Jewish regional governor...

China’s Central Asian security framework – the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) - is currently hosting military training exercises in a...

As the centenary of the Armenian Genocide approaches on April 24, it is crucial to reflect on the stories of ethnic communities who suffered alongside the...

Recently, a council of elders from the Panksi Gorge, an isolated region of east Georgia, appealed to the central government in Tbilisi to impose travel...

In Azerbaijan, ethnic Iranian communities, known as “Talysh,” in the southern Lenkaran district are at the center of a brewing regional controversy over...

No person embodies the sporadic nature of Russia’s foreign policy better than the Russian intellectual Alexander Dugin. As the Ukrainian crisis evolves into...

Disturbances on the Turkmen-Afghan border (which spans 744 kilometres) have been growing at an alarming rate, raising concerns about potential conflict in this...

Since the beginning of Ukraine’s separatist conflict in the east, the Kremlin has continued to deny allegations regarding Russia’s provision of weapons,...

Tajikistan’s strongman president Emomali Rahmon has long silenced any opposition, but just days after parliamentary elections on March 1 a chilling event...