01065nas a2200193   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003653001200044653001100056653000900067653001900076653002100095653001100116653001000127100002000137245006300157520065100220       2016                            d10aBaltics10aCrimea10aCSTO10aEurasian Union10aNagorno-Karabakh10aRussia10aSyria1 aGeorgi Tsvetkov00aThe Declared Withdrawal from Syria and Russia's Next Steps3 a 
<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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