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The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the Islamic Jihad Union: a jihadi nebulous in Central Asia and the EU

By Bruno DE CORDIER, Conflict Research Group
In late 2007 and mid-2008 over a dozen people were arrested in Germany and other EU countries on suspicion of preparing raids against US military infrastructure and raising funds on behalf of two militant groups with Central Asian origins. Although those arrested were of Turkish origin or native European converts to Islam and not from Central Asia, commentators often mention the Islamic Jihad Union and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in the sa...


Géorgie 
"What is happening in Georgia is a clear attempt by Russia to redesign Eastern Europe"

By Lili DI PUPPO
Interview with Temur Iakobashvili, Georgia’s State Minister for Issues of Reintegration...
Géorgie 
Armenia: Between a state of emergency and a presidential inauguration

By Haroutiun KHACHATRIAN
The February 19 elections and the March 1 tragedy have revealed a deep split in Armenian society. Public debate in the country is focused on finding a way out of the crisis. While a new governmental coalition is taking shape prior to the official pre...
Géorgie 
Armenia: Government declares emergency rule after deadly clashes

By Haroutiun KHACHATRIAN
Armenia's Prime Minister Serge Sargsian has officially been declared winner of the February 19 presidential elections. Last week, Sargsian's main rival Levon Ter-Petrosian, the first president of independent Armenia, attempted to rally popula...
Géorgie 
Presidential election in Uzbekistan: A farce

By Juliette LE DORE, Ph.D. candidate at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Can one really talk about the presidential election in Uzbekistan, on December 23 2007? It was a non-subject, for the country has known, since 1989, but a single leader who was poised for re-election: Islam Karimov....
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The Death of Badri Patarkatsishvili: From international conspiracy theories to local Georgian politics
The death of Arkadi “Badri” Patarkatsishvili in London on February 12 has given rise to sp...
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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 
EU Overlooks Pitfalls Of Central Asian Strategy - Editorial by Marat Yermukanov
This opinion article by Kazakh journalist Marat Yermukanov is the third part of a Caucaz.c...
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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 
Corruption Mounts in Kyrgyzstan as the Second Anniversary of ‘Tulip Revolution’ Approaches
The post-Soviet “colored” revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan gained popularit...
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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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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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