<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>27</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Georgi Tzvetkov</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Declared Withdrawal from Syria and Russia's Next Steps</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">CSDM Views</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Baltics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Crimea</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">CSTO</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Eurasian Union</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nagorno-Karabakh</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Russia</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Syria</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">34</style></number><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;This report explores Kremlin&amp;#39;s next steps in using military and hybrid instruments after the declared withdrawal from Syria. The author outlines the following main options: (1)&amp;nbsp;return to Syria; (2) Ukraine, in an attempt to provide a land corridor to Crimea; (3) the Baltic States, where Latvia and&amp;nbsp;Estonia are most vulnerable to Russian influence; (4) &amp;quot;former friends&amp;quot; as Belarus and Kazakhstan; and (5) Turkey, through its potential involvement on the side of Azerbaijan in a renewed&amp;nbsp;conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;/bg/node/13827/&quot;&gt;full text&lt;/a&gt; of the report is in Bulgarian.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>