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Portrait of Displaced Georgians: Current Situation and Prospects

By Sophie TOURNON
For over fifteen years, Georgian Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have been a social, economic and political reality which has only been partially taken into account in Georgia's political agenda. These 200,000 people, which make up 5 percent of the total population, are not only socially marginalized, but also made into political pawns. An overview of a delicate question......


Géorgie 
The Kabali Market in Kakheti : When Regional Integration Revolves Around The Horse

By Nicolas LANDRU
The Kabali Sunday live-stock market in Kakheti seems to come from another time, located in the south east of Georgia several kilometers from the Azerbaijan border. It's the biggest market of its kind in Georgia, at the center of a region known fo...
Géorgie 
Georgia: Saakashvili Increases Control over the Army

By Johannes WETZINGER
A year after the August 2008 war Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili has caused heated political debates with his controversial nomination of a new Defense Minister. Bacho Akhalaia, who takes over office from Vasil Sikharulidze,should maintai...
Géorgie 
The Turkish-Armenian Border and the Karabakh Conflict: Normalisation as Geopolitics

By Christian KOLTER
On April 23rd of this year, Turkey and Armenia reached an agreement and created a road-map to normalise their relations. Switzerland and the USA were mediators. This agreement will open the Turkish-Armenian border in the near future. The border ...
Géorgie 
Summer 2009, Armenian Politics: a Snapshot

By Haroutiun KHACHATRIAN
The summer holiday time has somewhat softened the sharpness of the political situation in Armenia. However, problems remain on the political scene with tensions possibly reappearing in autumn. ...
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Can the Taliban Win in Afghanistan?
Can the Taliban be victorious in one way or another, and come back to power in Afghanistan...
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Géorgie 
The Shadow of the Legionaries
Released in late 2008, Satibaldy Narymbetov’s film ‘Mustafa Chokai’ recounts the eventful ...
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Géorgie 
Negotiations on the Shtokman gas reserves
Has the suspenseful saga surrounding the future of the Russian gas reserves of Shtokman, s...
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Géorgie 
Iran, a ‘Colour Revolution’ in the Making?
How spontaneous and independent were the recent protests against the election results and ...
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Géorgie 
Armenia and the EU: When economics trump politics
During the month of October, Armenian President Robert Kocharian has successively preserve...
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Géorgie 
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the Islamic Jihad Union: a jihadi nebulous in Central Asia and the EU
In late 2007 and mid-2008 over a dozen people were arrested in Germany and other EU countr...
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Géorgie 
Iran Rations Its Petrol Consumption
The Iran that holds the world’s second-largest oil and gas reserves could, according to a ...
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Géorgie 
Why did Russia's democratic transition fail?
This article introduces a new Caucaz.com thematic series, which focuses on the electoral p...
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Russo-Georgian Convulsions—Editorial by Eric Hoesli

By Eric HOESLI, author of On the Conquest of the Caucasus: Geopolitical Epic and Wars of Influence (to be published by Les Editions de Syrtes) and director of the regional daily newspapers of francophone Switzerland, 24 Heures and La Tribune de Genève.
What is interesting in the ‘spy’ crisis is not so much the probable and likely espionage activity of Russian officers on Georgian territory, but the spectacular production organized by Georgian authorities to sensitize domestic public opinion (filmed arrests, police lines placed around the Russian HQ, etc.). In ordinary times, agents are simply ar...

 
Tehran and the Chechen Question

By Clement THERME
Since the beginning of the first war in Chechnya in 1994, Iran has adopted a passive attitude, even though the Islamic composition of Iran would suggest that Tehran would engage in supporting the Chechen Muslims victims of the successive Russian military interventions. Nevertheless, other than the sending of humanitarian aid to the Chechen refugee...
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