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Ranked: Countries with the most and least carbon-intensive power grids
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Ranked: Countries with the most and least carbon-intensive power grids
May 13, 2025

This infographic shows the countries which get their electricity in the most and least carbon-intensive ways.

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Main Trade Partners of Former Soviet Republics
March 21, 2024

The Soviet Union broke up in 1991 with fifteen independent states arising instead. Check out our infographic to learn what these states’ main trade partners are more than thirty years on.

Strategic Infographics
Main Trade Partners of Former Soviet Republics
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Iraq Turns to Qatar, Turkmenistan to Reduce Reliance on Iranian Gas
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Iraq Turns to Qatar, Turkmenistan to Reduce Reliance on Iranian Gas
July 12, 2023

Iraqis are suffering from soaring summer temperatures amid electricity shortages caused by reduced supplies of Iranian gas.

Turkey Expanding Multinational Turkic Council to Counteract CSTO, SCO in ‘Eurasian Continent’
June 29, 2021

The Turkic Council was set up in 2009 with Turkey as its prime mover, five years after the nation hosted the NATO summit in Istanbul that recorded the largest-ever expansion of the military bloc.

Turkey Expanding Multinational Turkic Council to Counteract CSTO, SCO in ‘Eurasian Continent’
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Caspian Games: Central Asian ‘Stans’ Vie for Connectivity Market
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Caspian Games: Central Asian ‘Stans’ Vie for Connectivity Market
April 21, 2018

Azerbaijan, as a Caspian nation, maintains deep ethnic and linguistic links with Turkey. Yet Baku prizes secularism in an Ataturk vein – which sets it at odds with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamic-tinged neo-Ottomanism.

Central Asia: Diplomatic Activities Hit High Gear near Russia’s Soft Underbelly
January 28, 2016

Since mid-December till mid-January presidents, prime ministers and foreign chiefs of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Turkmenistan held a record number of meetings, mainly in Ashgabat, some in Tbilisi and Baku…

Alexei Baliev
Central Asia: Diplomatic Activities Hit High Gear near Russia’s Soft Underbelly
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Afghanistan: Militants Posing Imminent Threat to Central Asia (II)
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Afghanistan: Militants Posing Imminent Threat to Central Asia (II)
June 7, 2015

…The situation is an imminent threat to Russia with its many centuries-long history of living together with Central Asian nations. Unlike the US or the EU, Central Asia is close to Russian borders, and there is a plethora of common interests to unite Moscow with the states of the region. Unlike the West, Russia never imposed its vision of democracy and human rights protection. Common security concerns have produced the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), an organization with teeth serving as an instrument to safeguard peace and stability in Central Asia…

Andrei Akulov
Afghan Insurgency Spreading North
May 28, 2015

Afghanistan comes to the fore of Central Asian agenda. The situation has greatly exacerbated in the northern Afghan provinces… Until recently it had been widely believed that the central authorities in Kabul were fighting the Taliban. Now a third belligerent emerged. Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser, Mohammad Hanif Atmar, has said that the presence of Daesh, or the Islamic State, is growing. According to him, the group plans to seize control of Central Asia and then move to Russia. The efforts to fight the Islamic State in Afghanistan are not enough to counter the threat…

Nikolai Bobkin
Afghan Insurgency Spreading North
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