Category: Russia and Eurasia

By Zaur Shiriyev | 26 July 2010 "After the August war" - most political analysts use this quote when discussing events after the Georgian-Russian war in 2008, which changed the political map...

By Deirdre Tynan | 12 July 2010 For more than six years, the Pentagon paid fees to the Turkmen government for the use of the Central Asian nation’s airports. However, officials in...

By Nino Pasturia | 13 July 2010 An effort to remove Georgia’s North-South gas pipeline from a list of strategic state-owned properties is stirring controversy. Officials in Tbilisi maintain that full privatization...

 By Alisher Khamidov | 14 June 2010 Not only is southern Kyrgyzstan experiencing a refugee crisis, the region is facing a humanitarian disaster brought on by deepening shortages of food and medical...

By Joanna Lillis | 09 June 2010 It has been widely reported that Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, has rejected parliament-approved amendments to enhance his executive powers. But Nazarbayev’s refusal to sign the...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 01 June 2010 The South Caucasus is a region where a number of unresolved conflicts still exist in the absence of regional security arrangements. Indeed, three unresolved (Nagorno-Karabakh,...

By Paul Richardson | 01 June 2010 The Southern Kurils are three islands and a cluster of rocky outcrops that lie off the north-east coast of Hokkaido. The Japanese collectively refer to...

By Zaur SHIRIYEV | 31 May 2010 The European Parliament, or EP, approved a report on May 20 on the need for a European Union strategy for the South Caucasus, which stresses...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 21 May 2010   Turkey’s recent shuttle diplomacy between Moscow, Baku and Tbilisi has indirectly confirmed the strategic depth of its foreign policy as the country seeks to...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 17 May 2010 In recent weeks, Armenian parliamentarians and political analysts have called on Armenian diaspora organizations to press for international recognition of the Armenian regime in Karabakh...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 29 April 2010   Religious leaders from Armenia and Azerbaijan made a call in Baku for a peaceful resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The head of the...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 22 April 2010   The word "change" has recently become rather popular in political campaigns, starting of course with that of U.S. President Barack Obama, who perhaps led...

By Assoc. Prof. Bayram Gungor | 01 April 2010 It is widely known that the most basic form of integrations is the cooperation agreements. However, cooperation agreements are different from...

By Dr. Ayla Gol | 01 April 2010   Has anyone who is interested in Turkish and Armenian relations been really surprised that the most recent diplomatic attempts to normalise relations between...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 01 April 2010 Peace talks to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have been under way for more than a decade with virtually no tangible progress. The last few weeks...