Eyes on Eurasia with Glen Howard

Hi everyone, Welcome to my Eyes on Eurasia podcast with Glen Howard! In today’s episode, we will examine the ongoing situation in Mali, where in the past week, al-Qaeda-linked militants launched a coordinated offensive, striking the heart of the Malian state — killing Defense Minister Sadio Camara, Moscow’s key ally in Bamako. Militant attacks also forced Russian-backed forces into retreat across...

Hi everyone, Welcome to the 27th episode of my Eyes on Eurasia podcast. Today, we are looking at an area of Eurasia that is back in the news: the Horn of Africa, and I am going to examine the Houthis of Yemen. Recently, after a month-long wait to enter the war, the Houthis have launched a series of missile attacks on Israel in the past week, joining the regional conflict between the United States,...

Hi everyone, Welcome to my Eyes on Eurasia podcast. In this episode, I’m delighted to be joined by a special guest who sits at the very edge of NATO security in the Baltic—Mr. Kaupo Rosin, Director General of the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service (EFIS). Director General Rosin helps us unpack the newly released EFIS 2026 Annual Report, ‘ International Security and Estonia 2026 .’ You can read...

Hello everyone, Welcome to the latest episode of my Eyes on Eurasia podcast! In this episode, we are going to explore the troubled state of the Russian space program. Borrowing from the 1960s classic television series Lost in Space , this episode will also, in true Star Trek fashion, boldly go’ where few have gone before and ask a simple but urgent question: Where is Russia’s space program - heade...

Hi everyone, Welcome to Episode 24 of my Eyes on Eurasia podcast with Glen Howard. This episode is available exclusively to paid subscribers of Glen’s Substack. If you’d like to unlock the full podcast and get access to all premium content, consider upgrading to a paid subscription. Your support helps keep this publication going and brings you even more great episodes. Simply click below to subscr...

Hi everyone, Welcome to the Eyes on Eurasia podcast with Glen Howard! Another menacing cloud is emerging within Putin’s Russia known as: Russkaia Obshchina (Russian Community), which is a new utra right wing nationalist group that is rapidly attracting thousands of new followers across the country. Once a marginal nationalist initiative, Russkaia Obshchina has rapidly evolved into a powerful, stat...

Hi everyone, Welcome to Episode 22 of the Eyes on Eurasia podcast with Glen Howard. Pakistan and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan are back in the news. This time it is not about Pakistan’s support for the Taliban but an eruption in border fighting between the two countries that has created the worst tension between the two countries in recent memory. At the heart of this conflict is the still unresolved...

Hello everyone, Welcome to Episode 21 of my Eyes on Eurasia podcast with Glen Howard — a special edition on the recent Alaska Summit! This is a particularly timely issue. Superpower summits are back: last Friday, President Trump met in Anchorage, Alaska with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Earlier this week, he hosted seven European leaders at the White House, including NATO Secretary General Mark...

Hi Everyone, Welcome to the 20th episode of my Eyes on Eurasia Podcast! Things have been heating up in the Caspian as a new series of events has unfolded regarding Russian relations with Azerbaijan in recent weeks. Tensions between Moscow and Baku have gone off the rails since the deaths of two ethnic Azerbaijani brothers—Huseyn and Ziyaddin Safarov in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on June 27....

Hello everyone, Welcome to Episode 19 of my Eyes on Eurasia podcast with Glen Howard! In this episode, we’re taking a close look at what’s happening inside Belarus, which recently became the focus of U.S. diplomacy with the June 21st visit of Keith Kellogg, President Trump’s Ukraine envoy. Kellogg is now one of the highest-ranking American officials to visit Belarus since February 2020, when Secre...

Hello everyone! Welcome to Episode 18 of my Eyes on Eurasia podcast with Glen Howard . In this episode I am excited to interview two prominent Ukrainian naval experts on Black Sea security. My guests are retired Ukrainian Admiral Ihor Kabanenko and Captain Andrii Ryzhenko . Part one of the interview will address the recent Ukrainian drone attack on Russia known as Operation Spiderweb where I will...

Hi everyone, Welcome to my 17th episode of my Eyes on Eurasia podcast, where I welcome back Dr. Benjamin Schmitt , a former guest on the program who is a noted expert on Russian energy weaponization and safeguarding Euro-Atlantic energy infrastructure. Ben has returned to my podcast to discuss a new report he has co-written with two other authors, commissioned and published by the University of Pe...

Hello everyone, Welcome to my Eyes on Eurasia with Glen Howard podcas t . Quite a lot has been happening on the diplomatic front in the Russia-Ukraine war in the past month as ceasefire talks evolve among the United States, Russia, and Ukraine. Last Sunday President Putin announced a 30-hour Easter ceasefire but that pledge failed to last as the war continues and talks on ending the war remain elu...

Hello everyone, Welcome to my - Eyes on Eurasia podcast with Glen Howard. Today’s podcast marks our 15th episode, and since a lot has been happening in US-Russian relations regarding Ukraine we thought it would be a good idea to catch up on US-Russian relations on ending the Ukraine War. With a big meeting taking place on Monday, March 25, in Riyadh, this episode will help you learn more about the...

Hello everyone, Welcome to my podcast - Eyes on Eurasia with Glen Howard . Today’s podcast marks our 14th episode and I wanted to thank everyone for listening. I am grateful to those of you who support these interviews by becoming paid subscribers. For our episode today, it is a great privilege to have Paul Goble joining us. Paul is a legendary American expert on Russian/Soviet nationalities quest...

Hello everyone! Welcome to the 13th episode of my Eyes on Eurasia podcast with Glen Howard! 2025 marks a new year for my podcast, and we are excited about offering a new slate of interviews with prominent experts from Eurasia extending from East Central Europe to the Caspian and beyond. With a new US administration taking over the White House I thought we would look at the future of US-Russia rela...

Hello everyone, The Black Sea has emerged as a pivotal theater in the Ukraine war, with Ukrainian Unmanned Surface Drones (USV) playing a decisive role in reshaping the conflict’s trajectory against Russian naval dominance. In this extensive interview for the Maritime Nation podcast, I speak with Admiral (ret) James Foggo , Dean of the Center for Maritime Strategy , to discuss the various land and...

Hello everyone, Welcome to the 12th episode of my podcast - Eyes on Eurasia with Glen Howard. Today, we have a special podcast dedicated to recent developments in Syria that resulted in the downfall of the Assad regime – a family dynasty that ruled this important Middle Eastern country for over 50 years. The tidal wave of events in Syria in the past couple of weeks has led to the emergence of a ma...

Hello everyone, Welcome to my podcast - Eyes on Eurasia with Glen Howard! In recent months, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been moving closer and closer to signing a major peace agreement in their ongoing efforts to end their territorial dispute and normalize relations. The prospects for peace continue to improve due to a series of important confidence-building measures that have taken place between...

Hello everyone, Welcome to the tenth episode of my podcast - Eyes on Eurasia with Glen Howard. Today I venture into the little-discussed world of the South Caucasus to examine the recent turmoil in Abkhazia. We are joined in this podcast by Ghia Nodia , Professor of Politics at Ilia Chavachadze State University in Tbilisi and Chairman of the Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development....

Hello everyone, Welcome to my podcast Eyes on Eurasia, with Glen Howard ! Today we are joined by   Thomas Kent  who is a Strategic Communications Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) in Washington, DC. Tom is a long-time expert on Russian propaganda and the author of two books on Disinformation. His first book published in 2020 is entitled: Striking Back: Overt and Covert Op...

Hello everyone, Welcome to my 8th Eyes on Eurasia podcast! For the past year, the Czech Republic has played a major role in launching a NATO-backed arms initiative to secure ammunition for Ukraine in its David versus Goliath struggle with Russia. Since Czech President Petr Pavel first announced this initiative during the Munich Security Conference in February 2024, the Czech Republic has taken on...

Hello everyone, Welcome to my 7th podcast Eyes on Eurasia with Glen Howard. In this episode, I will be discussing the looming Israeli military response to the Iranian ballistic missile attack that took place against Israel on October 1st - an unprecedented missile strike that involved nearly 200 Iranian ballistic missiles. In the coming days and weeks ahead Israel is likely to launch a retaliatory...

Hello everyone, Welcome to my sixth podcast Eyes on Eurasia with Glen Howard! In this episode, I will be discussing a recent Eye on Eurasia Special Report written by guest contributor Tim Thomas. The report is entitled The Ukraine Battle Lab: Russian Adaptations to Contemporary War’s High-Tech Developments and you can find a copy of this report prominently displayed on my substack website. For tho...

Hello everyone, Welcome to my latest podcast Eyes on Eurasia with Glen Howard! On September 26, it will be the two-year anniversary of the Nordstream 2 pipeline explosion, the strategic undersea gas pipeline in the Baltic that once delivered Russian gas to Germany. Two years after the attack it remains a mystery as to who was behind this explosion with a lot of finger-pointing at both Russia and U...