Bear Market Brief Podcast, Chain Reaction March 15, 2024 Russia’s Election: It Ain’t Vova ’till it’s Vova If we know how Russia’s presidential election is going to turn out… why even bother holding the election? Join... Read more »
Chain Reaction March 14, 2024 Russia’s Invasion Through Ukrainian Eyes Amid the commentary on the war in Ukraine, the voices of those who live it every day are sometimes... Read more »
Bear Market Brief Podcast, Chain Reaction February 28, 2024 Has Russia Won the Sanctions War? Despite Western economic policy, Russia has been able to continue its war against Ukraine, and even seen economic growth.... Read more »
Chain Reaction February 20, 2024 Dark Days Ahead in Ukraine? As the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches, the optimism that reigned a year ago has... Read more »
Chain Reaction, Report in Short February 8, 2024 Report in Short: A “Frozen Conflict” Boils Over On September 19, 2023, Azerbaijani forces initiated a massive attack on Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian-populated and effectively self-governing region inside... Read more »
Chain Reaction January 25, 2024 Out of the Shadows and Into the Sun: The (Re)-Emergence of Central Asia From the “Great Game” of the 19th century to the NATO war in Afghanistan, Central Asia has periodically been... Read more »
Chain Reaction, Report in Short January 9, 2024 Report in Short: Russian Military Drones Since 2009, Russia has invested significant effort into developing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, for military purposes. However,... Read more »
Bear Market Brief Podcast, Chain Reaction December 8, 2023 Why Do Autocrats Make Mistakes? Almost two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, Bear Market Brief investigates how we got here in the first place.... Read more »
Chain Reaction November 29, 2023 Wagner Group: Where Are They Now? It’s been just over five months since the Wagner Group’s insurrection against the Russian government and three months since... Read more »
Chain Reaction, The Continent November 10, 2023 KZ Right Now: Kazakhstan’s Politics in a Changing Global Order The Continent takes a (slight) detour to learn how trends over in Eurasia compare with what we’re seeing in... Read more »