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The ‘Islamist hand’ in the Kyrgyzstan unrest: a convenient myth for whom?

By Bruno DE CORDIER, Conflict Research Group
Shortly after the communal violence in Osh and Jalalabad which left, according to source, 300 to 800 dead, Kyrgyzstan’s intelligence chief Keneshbek Duishebayev claimed that relatives of deposed president Kurmanbek Bakiyev met in Dubai with Islamist militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the Islamic Jihad Union (1) and paid the latter up to 30 million dollars to destabilize southern Kyrgyzstan. Later warnings about the threa...


Géorgie 
Georgia: "Liberasts" Traitors Against Orthodox "Fascists"

By Sophie TOURNON
Right after the shocking mock-documentary that announced Russia's invasion of Georgia [1], the Georgians, who were gearing up for the strained municipal elections in Tbilisi, were faced with yet another scandal. This time it was a sort of ...
Géorgie 
Tbilisi: Gigi Ugulava, the Victory of a “Potentially Presidential” Mayor

By Nicolas LANDRU
The recent local elections in Georgia – the decisive polls of 2010 – unsurprisingly renewed the mandate of Tbilisi mayor and ruling National Movement candidate Gigi Ugulava. After leading a campaign which confirmed his mastership of the media, this 3...
Géorgie 
Georgia’s New Face – 1st Part: Old Tbilisi’s Death and New Life

By Nicolas LANDRU
Georgia has experienced deep architectural transformation during the past few years. A combination of rapid economic growth and proactive policies has pulled the country out of fifteen years of stagnation and has introduced new concepts into the urba...
Géorgie 
The last of the Georgian Communists

By Louis-Antoine LE MOULEC
The current Georgian government has definitely chosen to fall in line with the West: liberalization, privatization, free movement, desire to join NATO, with their eyes set on the European Union. Nevertheless, at the heart of the Georgian United Commu...
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Géorgie 
Imedi TV: The Russians invaded Georgia, Saakashvili murdered - a joke that evokes only forced laughter
Tbilisi, 20h. Many Georgians would have been in a cold sweat this Saturday, March 13, 2010...
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Géorgie 
Neighbours and Refugees : The Pankisi Kists keep an eye on Chechnya
In Georgia, the Kists, a small Muslim community of officially 8708 people settled near the...
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Géorgie 
The Kabali Market in Kakheti : When Regional Integration Revolves Around The Horse
The Kabali Sunday live-stock market in Kakheti seems to come from another time, located in...
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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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