Azerbaijan’s unfinished election

8-11-2005
Sabine Freizer
Ilham Aliev’s ruling party declared victory before the votes were counted, but the opposition can still challenge some of its fraudulent results, reports the International Crisis Group’s Sabine Freizer in Baku.
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Georgia’s Byzantine politics

3-11-2005
Susan Richards
The sacking of the French-born foreign minister has opened a new phase in Georgia’s troubled post-rose-revolution history. In Tbilisi, Susan Richards assesses the challenge facing a defiant Salome Zurabishvili.
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Musa Shanib in the Caucasus: a political odyssey

12-10-2005
Thomas de Waal
The meteoric career of an intellectual, nationalist dissident in the north Caucasus is emblematic of the region’s troubled post-Soviet condition, writes Thomas de Waal of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting.
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