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Karimov-Nazarbayev Summit Signals Shift in Central Asian Security
June 18, 2013 05:14 PM
On June 13–14, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev arrived in Tashkent for a summit with his Uzbekistani counterpart Islam Karimov. Although media coverage of this meeting differed in both countries, the summit witnessed the signing of a “strategic partnership” between Astana and Tashkent. Equally, despite the nuanced features of reporting the summit in each country’s media, the issue of security in Central Asia in the context of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) drawdown of combat forces from Afghanistan in 2014 was in fact prominent on the agenda. The...
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Circassian Military Traditions Still Keeping Diaspora Strong
June 18, 2013
The 500,000 Circassians in the North Caucasus have long drawn strength and encouragement from the continuing vitality of the 5-million-strong Circassian diaspora in the countries of the Middle East. A major source of the diaspora’s strength in turn has been the participation of many of its members in the military and security services of those countries. And that unique niche, one reflecting the...
Putin Hints at Normalization with Georgia on Russian Terms
June 18, 2013
Russia’s barbed-wire fence construction in Georgia beyond the occupation line (see EDM, June 3, 11–13, 17) has provided another demonstration of the shifting balance of power (“new geopolitical realities”) in this region. It drove home this point without resorting to outright military aggression; and it may have indicated that further such demonstrations, carefully calibrated in their scope but...
Xenophobia and Desire for Monopoly of Power Dominate Kyiv’s New Approach to Crimea
June 17, 2013
When writing about xenophobia and racism, Western scholarly and media writing about Ukraine inevitably focuses on Western Ukraine and the rise of the Svoboda nationalist party. But in fact, Council of Europe reports, the United States’ diplomatic cables from Kyiv (released by Wikileaks), annual reports on human rights by the US State Department and Ukrainian sociological polls point to the Crimea...
Moscow Orders Crackdown on Kadyrov Personality Cult
June 17, 2013
On June 12, some of the most astonishing news in recent years arrived from Chechnya: the previously ubiquitous portraits of Ramzan Kadyrov had reportedly vanished from the streets of Grozny and other Chechen towns and villages. Until a few days ago, enormous images of the current ruler of Chechnya covered the facades of all government offices, schools and many other buildings in the republic....
Georgia’s Reset and Russia’s Response (Part Four)
June 17, 2013
One major assumption behind the new Georgian government’s Russia policy holds that Georgia might regain its Russian-occupied territories in the future through a negotiated solution. This presupposes making Georgia an attractive country to the occupied territories’ populations; de-isolating them to broaden their options; and—if those processes work out—ultimately re-creating Georgia’s territorial...
Stalin’s Shadow over the Post-Reset Meeting Between Putin and Obama
June 17, 2013
The Group of Eight (G8) summits have traditionally been seen more for their vanity than substance, and the one that opens today (June 17) in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, will not be an exception. The members of this privileged club—the United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Germany, Japan, Italy and Russia—see no particular need to overcome their differences in managing the world’s...
Krasnaya Polyana: Breaking the 150 Years of Silence (Part Two)
June 14, 2013
The following is the conclusion to the two-part historical series in EDM by Ibragim Gukemukh of the end of the road to Krasnaya Polyana and the last stand of Circassian resistance against Tsarist Russia’s conquest of the Northeast Caucasus. To read Part One, see EDM, May 31. The AgonyIn the beginning of 1863, the new Russian commander-in-chief and the governor to the region, the Grand Duke...
Scandal in Scandinavia: Gulnara Karimova’s Shrinking Prospects to Become Next Uzbek President
June 14, 2013
The issue of power succession in Uzbekistan gained momentum as a serious investigation has been launched in Sweden against Gulnara Karimova, the 40-year old daughter of Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov. She is suspected of receiving a $320 million bribe, paid to her company Takilant Limited in exchange for a 3G mobile license and frequency, thus granting the Swedish-Finnish company...
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Vladimir Socor is a senior fellow of The Jamestown Foundation and regular writer for Eurasia Daily Monitor.
Breaking News:
Putin Hints at Normalization with Georgia on Russian Terms
June 18, 2013 05:12 PM
Russia’s barbed-wire fence construction in Georgia beyond the occupation line (see EDM, June 3, 11–13, 17) has provided another demonstration of the shifting balance of power (“new geopolitical...
