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The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players.On Friday, a lavish opening ceremony kicked off the 22nd Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. ThisContinue reading “The New Great Game Round-Up #39”

The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players. Western mainstream media reporting about China's fight against the “liberation of East Turkestan” follows someContinue reading “The New Great Game Round-Up #38”

The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players. A few months ago, NATO's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen reassured the Kremlin that noContinue reading “The New Great Game Round-Up #37”

The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players.In response to the 2013 Volgograd bombings, the Russian authorities tried to show that they areContinue reading “The New Great Game Round-Up #36”

The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players. 2013 was a memorable year for the Russian city of Volgograd. At the beginning ofContinue reading “The New Great Game Round-Up #35”

The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players. As discussed two weeks ago, Russia reacts to NATO's relentless expansion and Cold War-style militaryContinue reading “The New Great Game Round-Up #34”

The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players. After several members of a Central Asian criminal group supposedly financing Hizb ut-Tahrir were recentlyContinue reading “The New Great Game Round-Up #33”

The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players. Ukraine, the largest country in the post-Soviet space, aroused Brussels' and Washington's anger by refusingContinue reading “The New Great Game Round-Up #32”

The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players. While the Tiananmen Square attack is still a main topic of conversation in China andContinue reading “The New Great Game Round-Up #31”

The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and profits between a U.S.-dominated NATO, its GCC proxies, Russia, China and other regional players. Negotiations between Washington and Kabul about the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014Continue reading “The New Great Game Round-Up #30”