As part of a new “web dossier” of essays focusing on Russia, the South Caucasus Regional Office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation published a set of articles by analysts and experts from Moscow, Sukhumi, Tbilisi and Yerevan. The compilation, entitled “The Games are over! Beware of the Peace? Russia and the South Caucasus after the Sochi Olympics,” featured contributions from Ivlian Haindrava, political analyst at the Republican Institute (RI, Tbilisi, Georgia), Sergey Markedonov, independent political analyst (Moscow, Russia), Akhra Smyr, freelance journalist (Sukhum/i, Abkhazia), and RSC Director Richard Giragosian.
Giragosian’s article, “The South Caucasus: The Limits of a Resurgent Russia,” assessed how Russia would use the post-Olympics period to promote its Eurasian Union project and strive to assert more control over the South Caucasus region by exerting pressure with the use of its energy resources.
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