Sentinel Country Risk Assessments - Russia and the CIS

Know where your risks and opportunities are

Jane's Sentinel Country Risk Assessments provide you with in-depth, up-to-date and accurate data and analysis on the latest events and trends in political, security and economic affairs. They provide a comprehensive one-stop information source covering 190 states and 30 territories. Jane's worldwide intelligence network of over 120 expert contributors delivers incisive and impartial analysis to help you protect your economic, strategic and political interests.

The new Security file allows prompt and reliable analysis on every country's security, primarily in the areas of terrorism and insurgency

• state stability
• international relations
• organised crime
• proliferation and procurement

Political files provide overviews of the political system, political actors and parties, cabinet lists, civil society and internal history. External files detail all relevant bilateral and multilateral relations and history. Defence files offer profound analysis of, and information on, all services of a country's military, its size, capabilities, requirements, weaknesses, strengths and orders of battle.

The world's most comprehensive and reliable source on national and international security.

Russia and the CIS countries:

• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Belarus
• Georgia
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Moldova
• Russia
• Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan
• Ukraine
• Uzbekistan

Benefits of online version
Choosing to subscribe to Jane's Sentinel Country Risk Assessments online will allow you to get the maximum benefit from the wealth of Jane's information in this area. As a subscriber, you will have:

• Quarterly updates on the majority of countries with the most volatile updated monthly.
• Additional analysis available only to online subscribers.
• Simple and advanced search tools providing several powerful search options including keyword search, boolean, proximity and wildcard operators, fielded search by date and title to take you directly to the information you are seeking.
• The ability to cut and paste Jane's text for use in your own documents for internal briefings and reports.
• Active interlinking, allows you to navigate via hyperlinks within viewed documents, to other related information, thus reducing your search time considerably.
• Instant access, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days of the year, wherever you have access to the Internet.

Jane's Sentinel Country Risk Assessments is available for networking within organisations via secure intranet services and is accessible by unique username and password, allowing you to access Jane's information wherever you are in the world.

Sections

• Air force
• Armed forces
• Army
• Defence budget
• Defence production and r & d
• Demography
• Economy
• Executive summary
• External affairs
• Geography
• Glossary
• Infrastructure
• Internal affairs
• Maps
• Natural resources
• Navy
• Non-state armed groups
• Political leadership
• Procurement
• Regional overview
• Regional statistics
• Security
• Security and foreign forces
• Strategic weapon system
• Structure of the russian federation
• Territories

Content Structure
Jane’s Sentinel Country Risk Assessments combine expert analysis of the latest events and trends in political, security and military affairs with a detailed breakdown of global military and political structures on a regional basis.

Each region is broken down by country with each country profile providing a detailed analysis of political, diplomatic and military capabilities, making Jane’s Sentinel Country Risk Assessments your complete guide to global security risk.

Updated monthly from sources on the ground and by expert analysts around the world, each profile includes the very latest intelligence on:

• Summaries
• Executive Summary - e.g. summarising key risks to a country
• Country Profile - at a glance - e.g. including information on the main political figures
• Politics
• Internal Affairs - e.g. covering domestic threats and home legislation
• External Affairs - e.g. looking at international relations
• Special Profiles
• Examples include Kosovo (Serbia and Montenegro) and Zanzibar (Tanzania)
• Military
• Armed Forces - e.g. details on Covert programmes and Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Weaponry
• Army - e.g. Bases and Inventory statistics
• Air Force - e.g. Role and Deployment details
• Navy - e.g. Operational Art and Tactical Doctrine
• Security and Foreign Forces - e.g. information on Police forces, Customs and Security Agencies
• Procurement - e.g. Equipment requirements and Modernisation programmes
• Defence Production and R&D - e.g. Military Research and Development
• Context
• Geography - e.g. Environmental factors and Climate
• Demography - e.g. Population, Religion and Ethnicity
• Infrastructure - e.g. Transport systems
• Main Economic Indicators - e.g. GDP, Imports and Exports, and Inflation

Every Jane’s Sentinel provides a comprehensive analysis and invaluable reference guide to approximately 190 states and 30 territories and substates.

As reference, there are sections within each country dealing with natural resources, demography, infrastructure and economic performance. There is also an executive summary, which includes the most pertinent dangers currently facing the state, and a country profile that outlines the country’s political leadership.

The Security file provides more detailed assessments of risks facing a state, ranging from the threat of traditional interstate confrontation to ‘softer’ security issues including drug production and separatism. The internal and external affairs files, meanwhile, provide analysis of domestic politics and international relations.

The armed forces section covers details of military personnel figures, equipment inventories and force assessment. The military’s role and deployment is discussed and the location of all major bases is provided. Ongoing production, research and development and military procurement is also covered.

Please refer to the contents pages at the beginning of the book, which lists all these section headings. There are seventeen Sentinel regional products in the range. For continuously updated global political and security risk analysis log on to sentinel.janes.com.

Commonly Used Terms
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