About Eurasia Daily Monitor

Eurasia Daily Monitor is a publication of The Jamestown Foundation, based in Washington, D.C. Jamestown’s vanguard publication, the Eurasia Daily Monitor (EDM), was launched on May 3, 2004 and has since become a unique analytical resource on the emerging security realities in the former Soviet space. A reincarnation of the old Monitor publication, the Eurasia Daily Monitor surveys recent developments in Eurasia, placing the developments in a geo-strategic perspective and offering analysis that outlines their implications for the United States and the West. Led by a team of dedicated analysts, the contributors to EDM comprise a corps of experienced domestic and overseas analysts, whose skilled reporting is disseminated five days a week in a free electronic publication. With a readership of over 4,000 subscribers, the publication is widely used by U.S. government analysts and lawmakers, leaders and experts in the post-Soviet space, and everyday citizens who seek unbiased, unfiltered information that is not available through other channels.

Managing Editor: Ann Robertson

Ann Robertson is also managing editor of the journal Problems of Post-Communism. She has over a decade of experience in scholarly publishing and has worked on numerous books, articles, and conference papers. Dr. Robertson has a Ph.D. in political science and an MA in Russian and East European Studies from the George Washington University, where she is also an adjunct professor of international affairs.

About the EDM Analysts

Zaal Anjaparidze is the Executive Director of the Georgian NGO Democracy Resources Development Center. He has written extensively on Georgian domestic and foriegn politics.

Pavel Baev is a senior researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO).

Gregory Gleason teaches international relations and administration at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Federalism and Nationalism: the Struggle for Republican Rights in the USSR (1991), Central Asian States: Discovering Independence (1996), and Markets and Politics in Central Asia (2003) as well as scholarly articles in Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Asian Perspective and other journals.

Charles Gurin has covered developments in the former Soviet Union for more than a decade and also carried out journalistic assignments in other parts of the world, including Africa and Latin America. He specializes in Russian domestic and foreign policy.

Fariz Ismailzade is a freelance writer based in Baku. He holds a master's degree from Washington University in St. Louis and currently works for Cornell Caspian Consulting. The views expressed in this article are solely his own and do not represent the views of this organization.

Taras Kuzio is Visiting Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. His most recent books are jointly edited Dilemmas of State-Led Nation Building and Ukrainian Foreign and Security Policy (both by Praeger, 2002).

David Marples is Professor of History and Classics at the University Alberta in Edmonton. He is the author of ten books on Soviet and post-Soviet affairs, including Belarus: From Soviet Rule to Nuclear Catastrophe (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996) and Belarus: A Denationalized Nation (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999).

Roger N. McDermott is a Senior Fellow on Eurasian Military Affairs for the Jamestown Foundation. He specializes in Russian, Central Asian and South Caucasus Security and Military Affairs. He is also an honorary senior research associate, department of politics and international relations, University of Kent at Canterbury (UK).

Vladimir Socor is a senior fellow and long-time senior analyst with the Jamestown Foundation. He was formerly a senior research analyst with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich, and is a specialist in the non-Russian former republics of the USSR, CIS affairs and ethnic conflicts.

Igor Torbakov is a freelance journalist and researcher who specializes in CIS political affairs. He holds an MA in History from Moscow State University and a PhD from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He is now based in Istanbul, Turkey.

Oleg Varfolomeyev is an editor with BBC Monitoring in Kyiv.

Marat Yermukanov is a journalist working for the Russian-language private newspaper "Panorama Nedely" in Petropavlovsk, North Kazakhstan, and is also a regional correspondent for the Almaty-based national weekly "Panorama."