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Yabancı
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04.07.2008 |
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Why Independence For Abkhazia Is The
Best Solution
Eurasia Critic, June 2008
By George HEWITT (Professor;
London School Of Oriental and African Studies)
Historical BackgroundBagrat' III
(d. 7th May 1014) was the first ruler of the united feudal kingdom of
Georgia, having inherited the 200 year-old 'Kingdom of Abkhazia' (which
encompassed not only today's Abkhazia but western Georgia too) from his
mother. In the Georgian chronicles he (and his successors) carried the title
/mepe apxazta da kartvelta/ |
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crisisgroup.org... |
05.06.2008 |
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Georgia and Russia: Clashing over Abkhazia
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
AND RECOMMENDATIONS
With the dispute between
Georgia and Russia in a new, dangerously confrontational phase, the risk
of war in the South Caucasus is growing. Concerned by NATO’s plans for
further extension to former...
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mnweekly.ru...
12.04.2008 |
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During
last few years the permanent status of Kosovo has been
one of the main problems in global affairs. After
February 17, when Kosovo declared its independence and
was recognized by some nations, the world divided into
two opposing camps. Some believe that the division of
Serbia means the final end of the collapse of the former
Yugoslavia. Others anticipate and worry that the
recognition of Kosovo opens a Pandora's box that will
lead to a chain reaction all over the world, spreading
chaos, violence, and instability.
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RIA Novosti...
23.01.2008 |
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Abkhazia says opened
fire on Georgian ships, Georgia denies
SUKHUMI, January 23 (RIA Novosti) -
Abkhazia opened fire on two Georgian naval vessels that entered the unrecognized
republic's territorial waters, the spokesman for Abkhazia's president said
Wednesday, but Georgia denied the incident.
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http://en.rian.ru/world/20080123/97606684.html |
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RIA Novosti...
23.01.2008 |
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Russia has no plans to
back independence for Abkhazia, S.Ossetia
 MOSCOW,
January 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has never declared its readiness to recognize
the sovereignty of ex-Soviet breakaway provinces if Kosovo's independence is
declared, Russia's foreign minister said on Wednesday.
"Russia's leadership has never
stated that after Kosovo we would recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia," Sergei
Lavrov told journalists.
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RIA Novosti...
21.01.2008 |
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Two soldiers killed in
Chechnya shootout
 GROZNY,
January 21 (RIA Novosti) - Two interior troops soldiers were killed and one
wounded in a militant attack in eastern Chechnya on Sunday, a police source in
the Russian North Caucasus republic said on Monday.
"Unidentified assailants opened fire
on a group of federal soldiers in the Kurchaloyevo District of Chechnya at about
8.15 p.m. local time (5.15 p.m. GMT), killing two contract soldiers and wounding
one," the source said.
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kommersant.com...
21.01.2008 |
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Balkans Tie Russia and Georgia Tights
 The
Price of the Question
Plagiarizing Pushkin I’d say:
“A
shadow of Lavrov fell over the hills of
Georgia”.
The shadow fell on the occasion of the inauguration of President Saakashvili.
Mind your, it was Lavrov’s shadow, not that of Medvedev, for example. The
Russian foreign minister
came to Georgia to have a look at the second edition of the Georgian chieftain.
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http://www.kommersant.com/p843788/r_520/Op-Ed_Georgia_Saakashvili/ |
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WindowonEurasia...
21.01.2008 |
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Paul Goble
Baku, January 18
– Expelled from their Caucasian homeland by the tsars,
scattered throughout the Middle East by the Ottomans, and
subdivided by the Soviets, the five million Circassians of
the world will soon be linked together via satellite TV, a
joint project of Circassian activists in Jordan and
Circassian regimes in the North Caucasus.
National Adiga Radio Television – Adiga is the self-designator
of the Circassians – is based in Jordan but enjoys the
active support of the large Circassian community in Turkey
and the leaders of the Circassian republics of the North
Caucasus (Adygeia, Kabardino-Balkaria, and Karachay-Cherkessia).
And while NART
began broadcasting on radio and over the Internet last
summer (http://nart.narttv.com/),
its organizers are now almost ready to begin sending out
television programs via satellite first to the entire Middle
East and the Northern Caucasus and then to the more than 40
other countries in which Circassians now live.
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http://windowoneurasia.blogspot.com/2008/01/window-on-eurasia-new-satellite-tv-to.html |
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İnternetional
Crisis Group...
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Reuters...
16.01.2008 |
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INTERVIEW-Russia
must find Chechnya's missing -Red Cross
MOSCOW, Jan 16 (Reuters) -
The International Red Cross appealed to Russia on Wednesday to speed up work in
discovering the fate of more than 1,000 people who have disappeared in war-torn
North Caucasus over the last 20 years.
Jakob Kellenberger, the
president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), said in an
interview during a visit to Moscow that Russian officials needed to do more to
help the families of those who have disappeared to find out about their loved
ones.
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Traspol Tımes...
15.01.2008 |
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Abkhazia sees no
future in talks with Georgia's Saakashvili
Abkhazia's President Sergei Bagapsh (shown) sees little hope of a
breakthrough in independence talks with Georgia's Saakashvili
With Saakashvili in power in Georgia, a
Georgian-Abkhazian dialogue has no future. That is the opinion of
Abkhazia's President Sergei Bagapsh. The opposition says elections in
Georgia were rigged, but for Bagapsh they were merely "elections in a
neighboring state".
By
Jason Cooper, 15/Jan/2008
SUKHUMI (Tiraspol Times) - Abkhazia's President Sergei Bagapsh believes that
any talks with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili have little chance of
achieving a breakthrough, Interfax reported Monday.
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Todays Zaman...
15.01.2008 |
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Turkish-southern
Caucasus regional relations in 2008
Hasan Kanbolat
The
presidential elections slated to take place in 2008 in the southern Caucasus
will be one of the most important topics on the agenda for the coming year in
the region. To wit, in Georgia, the Jan. 5 presidential elections have already
taken place. The guiding forces in the election
results in the southern Caucasus region is not the actual votes of the citizens,
but the expressed convictions of the political administrations in power. In this
sense, the upcoming presidential elections in both Azerbaijan and Armenia are
not expected to bring about much in the way of significant changes to the
current political administrations. Within this framework, it is also not
anticipated that there will be any concrete developments as far as Nagorno-Karabakh
is concerned.
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İTAR- TASS...
15.01.2008 |
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Anti-mafia
department chief gunned down in Nalchik
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 NALCHIK,
Kabardino-Balkaria, January 13 (Itar-Tass) - The head of
the anti-organized crime department of the Interior
Ministry of Kabardino-Balkaria, the North Caucasus, has
been killed in the republic's capital of Nalchik, a law
enforcement source told Itar-Tass.
Anatoly Kyarov's car was
attacked by unidentified gunmen at around 22:30 Moscow
time on Saturday. Kyarov received deadly wounds. He died
in the republic’s clinical hospital in Nalchik.
Police in Kabardino-Balkaria
have been put on alert. Special police operations have
been launched to catch the attackers. |
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RFE/RL...
15.01.2008 |
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Russia: Court
Charges Beslan Victims' Group With 'Extremism'
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circassianworld.blogspot.com...
15.01.2008 |
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