Category: Russia and Eurasia

By Zaur Shiriyev | 24.03.2011 The EU is implementing all the possible projects in order to lessen Russian gas dominance in the European market and in this regard one of those...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 29 December 2010   Hungary assumes the European Union presidency in a troubled period, as all of Europe struggles under the economic crisis. As a new member...

By Dr. Zura Garakanidze | 20 December 2010 Russia's persistent interest in Iranian energy projects casts a problematic light over its bid to join the World Trade Organisation. Moscow is already...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 15 December 2010 Alliance politics is an important factor affecting threats and conflicts in South Caucasus region. Alliances in this region are a direct reaction to the...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 14 November 2010 NATO's next summit in Lisbon, scheduled for Nov. 19-21, will highlight five pertinent topics: the adoption of a new Strategic Concept, operations in Afghanistan,...

By Shahid R. Siddiqi | 12 October 2010 Fears have been expressed for a long time that successful resistance by the Pashtun Taliban against American occupation of Afghanistan and the imminent defeat...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 23 September 2010 On Wednesday, a lot of Azerbaijani people expressed their great delight at the approval of Matthew Bryza as the new ambassador to Azerbaijan by...

By Zaur Shiriyev | 17 September 2010   The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on 22 July that Kosovo's declaration of secession from Serbia did not break international law. In...

By Upstream | 17 September 2010 The head of Russia's oil pipeline monopoly Transneft said today that talks on building the Samsun-Ceyhan oil link between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean...

By Prof. Barry Rubin | 29 August 2010 Although this is a bit outside what I usually discuss (but I have an excuse coming up in a moment), I recommend to...

By Ahmed Rashid | 04 August 2010   There have been doubts in the US and Europe about the war in Afghanistan and clamour for an even earlier withdrawal of international...

By Ahmed Rashid | 03 August 2010 Over the past 32 years, Afghans have fought a series of wars to keep their country together. For all the machinations of great powers...

By Aunohita Mojumdar | 29 July 2010 The girls' high school under construction in Jabal Seraj could have turned out like any other development project in the area: crumbling and dangerous. Afghanistan...

By Ahmed Rashid | 26 July 2010 This week's conference in Kabul to determine the future of international support for Afghanistan is critical. The meeting, attended by Foreign Secretary William Hague, US...

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...