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- From Baku to Kars
The Caucasus isn’t just a region of overlapping ethnicity and religion, but one of clashing national interests. It is home to three regional conflicts and cursed by natural resources. Thus it is with great pleasure that we read some positive news from the region, namely the further development of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railroad.
When previously discussed, I [...]
- Why is the Democrat Congress batshit crazy?
The Democrats took their new electoral mandate to the legislative branch of government in January of this year and promptly addressed one of the most dire issues facing America in the contemporary age: the alleged (and likely true) complicity of the Japanese imperial government in facilitating forced prostitution for soldiers on the front line during [...]
- More Georgians to Iraq
Georgia is doing what few would: sending more troops to Iraq. Like many other members of the Coalition of the Willing, its initial troop commitment was small, around 800 and stayed clear of danger. Yet, Tbilisi is now deploying an additional 1,200 soldiers and this time, for a more high-profile and potentially dangerous mission, patrolling [...]
- Competing for Genocide
The alleged Armenian Genocide is a well known topic and that Armenia has a national genocide day is also public knowledge. Yet, who among our readers could have guessed that neighboring Azerbaijan has its own genocide day? Yes, the 31st of March has been designated such to commemorate the massacres of Muslims in Baku in [...]
- Something Afoot in Tbilisi?
These two events happened a little to close to be a coincidence:
Georgia’s Separatist Province Braced for Independence Vote
Voters in Georgia’s breakaway Republic of South Ossetia will head to the polls on November 12 to choose a new president and to participate in a referendum on the unrecognized republic’s independent status, RFE/RL reports. Aside from [...]
- Trying Hard to Ruin Its Own Image
Apparently being thought of as an unreliable energy supplier is something the Russians value and are working towards:
Tbilisi Says Russia’s Plan to Double Gas Price Politically Motivated
Georgia has called Russian energy giant Gazprom’s intention to more than double the gas price up to USD 230 per 1000 cubic meters is a political decision aimed [...]
- Caucasus Travelogue
Brian Ulrich of American Footprints recently posted a roundup of entries he made while travelling through the Caucasus. If you are interested in on-the-ground happenings in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in recent months, give Brian’s posts a read. (Here’s looking at you Chirol!)
- Neighborhood Watch
Could regional security be the future withan umbrella organization like the UN providing approval. Could the UN’s future be the rubber stamp while locals do the job?
GUAM likely to ask for mandate to conduct peacekeeping operations
15 October 2006 – The GUAM committee for political issues launched an initiative to this effect within the third meeting [...]
- Georgia: Little Engine that Can?
I recently discussed the emerging concept of micropowers, building on a discussion started by Moises Naim and John Robb.
Georgia is a small state of about 4.5 million people of which 84% are Georgian. It’s ethnically homogenous and controls most of its own territory. Being geographically small, independent from the USSR for about 15 [...]
- Georgia Roundup
Russia continues to put the screws to Georgia as part of its greater fear of a third wave of NATO expansion. Feeling left out of regional security, Moscow continues to stir up trouble proving it is the key to peace in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. However, to others, it’s only proving what was [...]
