Check out today's Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Analyst biweekly briefing. Hooman Peimani discusses the growing economic and political alliance between Iran and the Ukraine. Nuclear reactors and civilian aircraft figure prominently in the story. Denis Trifonov discusses the latest Russian effort in Chechnya and argues that Russia's responses to the hostage taking in Moscow is likely to drag them even deeper into an Afghanistan-type unwinnable-occupation scenario. Stephen Blank discusses the convergence of Chinese, Russian, and U.S. military forces fighting terrorism in Kyrgyzstan. And Michael Denison updates readers on the Trans-Afghan gas pipeline.