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Central Asia and South Caucasus Affairs: 2006
Central Asia and South Caucasus Affairs: 2006
 
Regional Security Issues: 2006
Regional Security Issues: 2006
 
Between the Black and Caspian Seas: New Challenges and Opportunities for the South Caucasus
Between the Black and Caspian Seas: New Challenges and Opportunities for the South Caucasus
 
 
Regional Security Issues
Regional Security Issues
 
The South Caucasus as a Part of the Wider Europe
The South Caucasus as a Part of the Wider Europe
 
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  • Central Asia Critical to the US War
    Between the early 1800s and the early 1900s Great Britain and the Russian Empire were engaged in a political tug-of-war, which at times did turn violent, for control of swaths of Central Asia. more...

  • Tajik Islamic Party Puts Face-Lift To A Test
    A dark horse has emerged ahead of Tajikistan's national elections that could add some excitement to an otherwise predictable poll. more...

  • Still in the Pipeline
    Running one of Europe's most controversial infrastructure projects can at times get a little intense more...

  • Sohigian: Listening to the Wind of Change: Renewable Energy in Armenia

  • Azerbaijan mugham music makes revival

  • Central Asia: Migrants and the Economic Crisis
    If Central Asian countries want to survive as viable independent states and avoid political and social instability in the region, they need to make urgent reforms in the labour sector. more...
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Global Security Watch - Central AsiaGlobal Security Watch - Central Asia
Home to vast energy reserves … central front in the fight against global terrorism … potential Western allies in RussiaÕs backyard. Together, the independent nations of Central Asia—former Soviet republics Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, plus Afghanistan—comprise one of the most important, least understood regions of the world.  more...

 

 

 

ChildrChildren of Armeniaen of Armenia: A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-Long Struggle for Justice
Holocausts will always have their deniers. But try to imagine a world in which every post-Nazi German government for the last six decades refused to assume any national responsibility for war crimes committed against the Jews, arguing that "lives were lost on both sides," denying that there had been a policy of genocide in the first place and even prosecuting and jailing German historians who wrote about it. more...

 

 

CentCentral Asia’s Second Chanceral Asia’s Second Chance
Central Asia’s Second Chance by Martha Brill Olcott Washington, D.C.:Carnagie Endoment for the International Peace, 2005. 387 pages, price: Rs.$50,00 . The paper is much again getting currency in the international contemporary context. U.S is fighting unending war in the entire Islamic world wherever, there is tremendous resources available. This could be in the form of terrorism flushing out posing a great threat to the PAX-Americana or something else for the civilised society of the comity of the nations. more...

 

Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared
Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that DisappearedClosed to foreigners under Tsar and Soviet rule, Kazakhstan has remained largely hidden from the world, a remarkable feat for a country the size of Western Europe. Few would guess that Kazakhstan—a blank in Westerners' collective geography—turns out to be diverse, tolerant, and surprisingly modern, the country that gave the world apples, trousers, and even, perhaps, King Arthur.
Christopher Robbins is the author of five non-fiction books, including the award-winning The Empress of Ireland. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Times Magazine (UK), the Guardian (UK), and many others. He lives in London. more...


Chalk Lines: The CaucasusChalk Lines: The Caucasus
Chalk lines: The Caucasus is the amazing testimony of the only photographer who spent so much time-from before the Red Army's invasion of Chechnya until now-in this deeply unstable and fast-changing region of the world. It is a striking, moving, and compelling account. more...

 

 

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