The first priority in the Russian strategy for undermining Azerbaijan, as the Center has long argued, (2) remains the fostering of regional political upheaval designed to destabilize the southern Caucasus and to impede the Azerbaijani leadership's ability to consolidate its nation's independence from Moscow.
The upheaval in the markets was still in process as the metrics for our 2, 000 were assigned on Feb. 29, so this list, which normally moves glacially, will have surely shifted further.