Libya

Baev: Moscow is pretending to act as a key peace-promoter in Libya, but in fact is acting as a spoiler

(Brookings) The United States should retain a stake in the international management of the Libyan conflict for many reasons, and one of them is that Russia is deeply engaged. Moscow is…

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Where’s Wagner? The All-New Exploits of Russia’s “Private” Military Company

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Just when you think you know where Russia’s Wagner Group “private” military company (PMC) is deployed, it pops up somewhere else. In the past year, its…

Into Africa: Prigozhin, Wagner, and the Russian Military

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Yevgeny Prigozhin, the corrupt military contractor from St. Petersburg who funds the informal armed organization known as the Wagner Group, expanded his lucrative foreign adventures into…

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The Search for Stability in Libya: OSCE’s Role between Internal Obstacles and External Challenges

(Instituto Affari Internazionali) This volume examines the goals and prospects of the OSCE’s growing engagement in the Mediterranean region and, more specifically, with the OSCE’s six Mediterranean Partners for Cooperation…

How Will Russia Approach a New Libya?

Pavel Baev, PONARS Eurasia member and research professor at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO), discusses Russian-Libyan relations in the following article: Gone Are the Days By Dan Peleschuk…

Russia’s Conflicts on Libya

Earlier this month, the Russian Government surprised many observers by going along with UN Security Council Resolution 1973, which authorized international enforcement of a no-fly zone over Libya. Russia…

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