Month: February 2022

For an evolving CSTO, Kazakhstan is a pop quiz by Caroline Steel

As the new year began and protests erupted across Kazakhstan, the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) elected unanimously to deploy troops in support of Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, in the alliance’s first military intervention since its founding. The CSTO, a collective security alliance comprising former Soviet states Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Belarus, and Russia, […]

What Our Analysts Are Reading – January, 2022

Navanti’s data collection and analysis are based on networks of on-the-ground researchers from all walks of life: journalists, academics, and humanitarian workers, to name a few. Our analysts also keep abreast of open source reports to inform their work. Below, these analysts have summarized and contextualized the most important pieces they have read and listened […]