RUSSIA AND NATO MANEUVER OVER GEORGIA
By Richard Weitz (5/6/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In recent weeks, the Russian government has taken steps to consolidate its hold over the two breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as well as affirm that all of Georgia falls within its zone of influence. Although desiring to improve relations with Moscow, NATO governments have rightly contested these Russian actions, which threaten to further weaken Western governments’ already diminished influence in Eurasia.
KYRGYZ REGIME USES ANTI-KURDISH PROTESTS FOR POLITICAL ENDS
By Erica Marat (5/6/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On April 26, a group of Kyrgyz and Russian villagers ransacked over a hundred houses belonging to ethnic Kurds, demanding they leave the Petrovka village in northern Kyrgyzstan. Inadequate and delayed responses from Kyrgyz state institutions – from the police forces and local government to the president – exacerbated the conflict. Despite the fate of thousands of ethnic Kurds being at stake, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev sought to use the conflict for his own ends.
TURKISH-ARMENIAN BREAKTHROUGH MAY BE FAR AWAY
By Haroutiun Khachatrian (5/6/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On April 23, the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, Turkey and Switzerland published a joint statement regarding their success in efforts to normalize the relations between Armenia and Turkey. This document can be considered a milestone in the Turkish-Armenian negotiations that began in 2007 in Switzerland, with that country as a mediator, and which received renewed impetus following the meeting of the Presidents of the two countries in Yerevan in September 2008.
GEORGIA’S TEST AND THE ROLE OF THE WEST
By Kelli Hash-Gonzalez and Mamuka Tsereteli (4/23/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgia is facing yet another political challenge. In the wake of a devastating war with Russia and continued Russian occupation of Georgian territories, a broad coalition of political parties and civic organizations is demanding political changes in the country. In fact, it is becoming clear that stability cannot be maintained in Georgia without significant reform.
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