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Opposition members set up tents in front of the presidential residence in Tbilisi. © RFE/RL
April demonstrations in Georgia: neither revolution nor evolution

By Nicolas LANDRU
Georgia’s political opposition announced April 9, a highly symbolic day of national mourning, as the starting point for a new round of popular mobilisation against President Mikhail Saakashvili’s regime. The avowed goal of a majority of these political forces was to rally in the streets in order to force out the president they consider illegitimate. Weakened by the loss of 2008’s presidential and parliamentary elections, and silent during the Aug...


Géorgie 
‘Caspian Qatar’ faces environmental challenges

By Bruno DE CORDIER
In the wake of the oil boom and as a late consequence of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, Baku and the beak-shaped Absheron peninsula are slowly growing into a urban area. The impact on the area’s environmental security is becoming clear. ...
Géorgie 
The Marjanishvili Theatre in Tbilisi: A stage for Identity-Questions in Georgia

By Birgit KUCH, University of Leipzig
Georgian society has undergone rapid changes and continuous transformation in recent years, and determining attitudes towards the Soviet past remains a complex and difficult issue. Which historical moments should be remembered and which ones are bett...
Géorgie 
Lost or Won? Akhalgori, Georgia – Leningor – South Ossetia

By Nicolas LANDRU
The Akhalgori region, known by Ossetians as its soviet name, Leningor, used to be the only part of the South Ossetian Autonomous Territory to have been spared by the early 1990s conflict between Georgians and Ossetians. It remained under Georgia’s un...
Géorgie 
Ilgar Ibrahimoglu: “I see a potential for Euro-Islam in Azerbaijan”

By Bruno DE CORDIER
Wearing European clothes instead of a turban and robe and being a human rights activist and newspaper editor in addition to an imam, one would not immediately associate Ilgar Ibrahimoglu with the cliché of a Shiite cleric. As such, he represents cert...
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Géorgie 
Presidential Elections in Azerbaijan: The limits of Short Term Observation
In Azerbaijan, hundreds of pairs of short term observers’ eyes witnessed a technically smo...
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Géorgie 
Georgia: A New Bill on the Rehabilitation of the Meskhetians under Consideration
Since June 14th, the Georgian press has focused on the topic of the Meskhetians, a populat...
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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 
The August War: From Political Confrontation to Military Escalation - Editorial by Bruno Coppieters
The August 2008 war between Russia and Georgia has altered our perception of European secu...
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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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