Ukraine war remains central test of Russia’s power

In recent months, several state-aligned media outlets in Russia have once again turned their attention to the South Caucasus and Central Asia with a tone that feels unmistakably coercive. The rhetoric carries echoes of an older imperial reflex that many believed had long been subdued. Given the tightly managed nature of Russia’s media landscape, it would be naive to interpret these messages as the independent musings of individual commentators. More plausibly, they are the calibrated signals of a political center seeking to project influence beyond its borders.

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