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Stalin’s Shadow over the Post-Reset Meeting Between Putin and Obama
June 17, 2013 04:01 PM
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 slow-burning crises, from the economic slowdown to Syria. Besides the photo-ops, the main content of these tightly scripted get-togethers is supposed to be generated in the back rooms, and the most private...
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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...
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...
The ‘Return’ of Geopolitics and Historical Memory
June 14, 2013
In his essay, “A Map of the World: The Return of Geopolitics,” Sergei Karaganov, a Russian pundit, analyzes the newly acquired legitimacy of geopolitics that, until recently, used to be “provincial,” “politically incorrect,” and even perceived by some as a vestige of Nazi ideology. Karaganov claims, “Moscow is skillfully conducting its geopolitically inspired foreign policy game. It contributes...
Simmering Border Conflicts Erupt Between Tajik and Kyrgyz Villagers
June 13, 2013
Just days after the presidents of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan met in Bishkek to confront the periodic conflicts breaking out on their countries’ border (http://news.tj/en/news/tajik-kyrgyz-leaders-outline-main-directions-further-bilateral-cooperation), a new incident occurred between residents of Batken (Kyrgyzstan) and Isfara (Tajkistan) districts in the Ferghana Valley on May 31. Hundreds of...
Georgia’s Reset and Russia’s Response (Part Three)
June 13, 2013
Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili supervises Georgia’s policy toward Russia through his special envoy, veteran diplomat Zurab Abashidze. This appointment has led to the establishment of a bilateral negotiating channel between Abashidze and Russia’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister and State Secretary Grigory Karasin. In the absence of diplomatic relations between the two governments, the...
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Vladimir Socor is a senior fellow of The Jamestown Foundation and regular writer for Eurasia Daily Monitor.
Breaking News:
Georgia’s Reset and Russia’s Response (Part Four)
June 17, 2013 04:03 PM
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...
