Sergey Sukhankin is a researcher at the Jamestown Foundation. He studies the political and economic development and security issues of former Soviet states, especially in the Baltic Sea region. Sukhankin’s research papers, comments and expert reports have been frequently published by distinguished European think-tanks, such as the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, European Council on Foreign Relations (London), International Centre for Policy Studies (Kyiv) and New Eastern Europe (Poland). He also contributes to EurasiaNet (New York). /2018
Author's articles
Belarus After the Storm: A Time Bomb
With opposition leaders now either imprisoned or fled, president Aleksander Lukashenko of Belarus is facing some tough choices in both…
Read moreFrom Defensive Outpost to Springboard?
The consequences for the Intermarium region of Russia’s (hypothetical) absorption of Belarus.
Read moreKavkaz-2020 Exercises: A Preliminary Analysis
On 26 September, the five-day strategic exercise Kavkaz-2020, on the Kapustin Yar testing range in the Astrakhan Region, ended, resulting…
Read moreRussia’s “memory wars”, Poland, and the Forthcoming 75th Victory Day
At the end of 2019, Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, lamented the EU’s resolution on the Importance of European Remembrance for…
Read moreWhat Did Russia’s Strategic Military Exercise Tsentr-2019 Reveal?
On 16–21 September, Russia held one of its strategic-level military exercises—traditionally rotating each year between four strategic theatres and bearing…
Read moreUkraine’s Thorny Path to NATO Membership: Mission (im)possible?
The fact that Donbas turned into a frozen conflict zone killed Ukraine’s NATO aspirations.
Read moreVostok-2018: An Alternative Analysis
These large-scale strategic military exercises exposed many weak spots for the Russian army
Read moreMaking War Profitable Again: PMCs as Russia’s “Key” to Africa
Moscow is gaining a foothold in Africa once more
Read moreYunarmia: A Call from the Past, or Farewell to the Future?
Irrespective of geography and historical period, the key objective set forth by almost every authoritarian regime boiled down to winning…
Read moreZapad-2017: What Did These Military Exercises Reveal?
Russia sees NATO, not terrorism, as its main adversary in the Baltic Sea region
Read moreThe Kaliningrad Oblast Today: A “Military Bastion 2.0”, not a “Bridge of Cooperation”
In the late 1990s/early 2000s, Kaliningrad Oblast—the Russian enclave situated on the shores of the Baltic Sea—was frequently referred to…
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