@misc{13826,
  keywords = {Baltics, Crimea, CSTO, Eurasian Union, Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia, Syria},
  author = {Georgi Tsvetkov},
  title = {The Declared Withdrawal from Syria and Russia's Next Steps},
  abstract = { 
<p>This report explores Kremlin's next steps in using military and hybrid instruments after the declared withdrawal from Syria. The author outlines the following main options: (1)&nbsp;return to Syria; (2) Ukraine, in an attempt to provide a land corridor to Crimea; (3) the Baltic States, where Latvia and&nbsp;Estonia are most vulnerable to Russian influence; (4) "former friends" as Belarus and Kazakhstan; and (5) Turkey, through its potential involvement on the side of Azerbaijan in a renewed&nbsp;conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://isij.eu/bg/node/13827/">full text</a> of the report is in Bulgarian.</p>
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  year = {2016},
  journal = {CSDM Views},
  number = {34},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.11610/views.0034},
  language = {eng},
}