news from the caucasus

Georgia hopes to normalize relations with Russia: President
1 hr ago China View
... came to power in 2003 amid tensions over Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and the Caucasus Mountains nation's warming relations with the West, including with NATO. The brief detention of four Russian military officers in ...
UN body cites numerous torture reports in Russia
1 hr ago News.scotsman.com
... of terrorism suspects. The committee cited "reliable reports of unofficial places of detention in the North Caucasus and the allegations that those detained in such facilities face torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment". The U.N. forum, ...
Poland Stands between Russia and the EU
3 hrs ago Free Republic
... to gladden Russia. Udwin said that the main topics at the summit became energy, human rights, Georgia and the North Caucasus and the four Road Maps on common spaces. As a result, the summit, which was expected to be an ostentatious victory for ...
Cynical Policy on Caucasus Will Backfire
5 hrs ago Sptimes.ru
When South Ossetians overwhelmingly backed a referendum on independence earlier this month, Russian television stations provided extensive coverage of the celebrations in the capital, Tskhinvali.The result - ...
BAKU: International Crisis Group Analyzed Situation In Georgia Terri
5 hrs ago Groong Armenian News Network
... address their problems through the state structures rather than on the street", said Sabine Freizer, Crisis Group Caucasus Project Director. While the government denies that there is any inequality, many minorities claim they are treated as ...
Georgia: Private Companies Carry Burden for Gazprom Gas Price Talks
6 hrs ago Eurasianet.org
... Alexander Medvedyev told a November 7 press conference in Moscow, the company will cut gas supplies to the South Caucasus state. "No contract, no supplies," the Russian news agency Interfax reported Medvedyev as saying. Gas, however, would continue ...
Warsaw: Poland To Help Turkey And Armenia?
6 hrs ago Groong Armenian News Network
... Monday. Polish diplomats told the daily they would not dare to engage Poland in solving conflicts in the region of Caucasus and that the idea to invite Turks and Armenians to Warsaw for a conference was born still under Foreign Minister Stefan ...
Second Trainload Of Equipment Leaves Russian Garrison In Georgia
6 hrs ago Groong Armenian News Network
... Tbilisi, on Thursday, in keeping with Russia's commitment to withdraw from its military bases in the post-Soviet Caucasus state by the end of 2008. Russia's South Caucasus Command said the train set off from the suburb of Vaziani at 5 a.m., and is ...
Landmark Hydro OGK Power Tenders Unveiled
6 hrs ago Times.spb.ru
... said, adding the plan was to build 120 megawatt installed capacity through such plants by 2010, mostly in the north Caucasus. Verbund and Hydro recently agreed to evaluate possible projects in a joint working group, and Verbund spokesman Gerald ...
Caucasus Research Resource Center Releases 2006 Survey Results
7 hrs ago Groong Armenian News Network
CAUCASUS RESEARCH RESOURCE CENTERS RELEASES 2006 SURVEY RESULTS ArmInfo News Agency, Armenia Nov 21 2006 The Caucasus Research Resource Centers-Armenia released the results of the 2006 Data Initiative Survey ...
BAKU: International Crisis Group: Georgia Government To Prevent Conf
8 hrs ago Groong Armenian News Network
... to address their problems through state structures rather then in the street", says Sabine Freizer, Crisis Group's Caucasus Project Director. While the government denies there is any inequality, many minorities claim they are treated as second-class ...
Georgia's Armenian And Azeri Minorities
8 hrs ago Groong Armenian News Network
... to address their problems through state structures rather than in the street", says Sabine Freizer, Crisis Group's Caucasus Project Director. While the government denies there is any inequality, many minorities claim they are treated as second-class ...
Resolution Relating To Stability Pact In South Caucasus Approved At
11 hrs ago Groong Armenian News Network
RESOLUTION RELATING TO STABILITY PACT IN SOUTH CAUCASUS APPROVED AT PACE STANDING COMMITTEE'S NOVEMBER 17 SITTING Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia Nov 21 2006 YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 21, NOYAN TAPAN.
Armenian Parliamentary Delegation To Leave For Moscow
11 hrs ago Groong Armenian News Network
... is primarily targeted at clarifying the position of Russian colleagues on those issues. Urgent issues of the South Caucasus were discussed also in the framework of the sitting of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly held November 15-16 in Saint ...
Bilateral talks with Lithuania, Iran and Georgia
12 hrs ago Turkish Daily News
... program via negotiations. Erdo an's talks with Nogaideli concerned trade relations, a solution to conflicts in the Caucasus, the improvement of regional stability and energy cooperation.
Azeri independent channel closed
5 hrs ago BBC Europe Edition
... libel suits and trying to silence independent voices such as ANS, the BBC's Matthew Collin reports from the Caucasus. President Ilham Aliyev has denied there is a problem with freedom of speech in Azerbaijan and the Azeri authorities say they are ...
The CIS And Baltic Press On Russia - Armenia
5 hrs ago Groong Armenian News Network
... see as nothing more than wishful thinking. "They want to offer Russia a choice: either it finally leaves the South Caucasus alone or stays there with Azeri help, which will surely be to the detriment of Armenia, Russia's ally However, even ...
Same suspects in two race-hate crimes in Russia - lawyer
6 hrs ago RIA Novosti
... motivated by race-hate. As with most markets in Moscow, many traders at the Cherkizovsky market are from the North Caucasus region and former Central Asian Soviet republics, as well as China and Vietnam. REDTRAM.COM Loading ...
The Baggage Of Writer Andrei Bitov
8 hrs ago Groong Armenian News Network
... corresponds to the sequence of English-language publications: Life in Windy Weather, Pushkin House, Captive of the Caucasus, and The Monkey Link. Bitov is also a poet: his two books of poetry are The Tree and On Thursday after the Rain. Andrei Bitov ...
European Neighborhood Policy Important for South Caucasus
10 hrs ago Yerkir
The EU actions plans with the South Caucasian states are remarkable not only for financial flows but for the possibility of regional cooperation they provide, Armenian National Assembly Vice-speaker Vahan ...
Karabagh In The Context Of The European Neighborhood
11 hrs ago Groong Armenian News Network
... Azerbaijan and Georgia on November 14 in Brussels became the most important foreign policy event for the three Caucasus countries. European Commissioner for external relations and neighborhood policy Benita Ferrero-Waldner noted that the three ...
Denial
19 hrs ago Times Online
... sounded like a man who was unwell." Mr Lugovoi said that he returned to Moscow then took a business trip to the Caucasus. The first he knew of Mr Litvinenko's poisoning was on Monday. He said that he returned to Moscow and contacted the British ...
Is NATO Ready For Georgia?
Yesterday IWPR
... In The News The Chechen silence Anna Politkovskaya's death should awaken us to the vicious injustices in the north Caucasus region. By Thomas de Waal Historic graveyard is victim of war From Jeremy Page in Moscow Mentioned in Dispatches by Thomas de ...
ICG Warns on Opportunity of Conflict between Armenians and Azeris in Georgia
Yesterday PanArmenian Network
... such demands and might even help build trust with the Abkhaz and Ossetians," says Sabine Freizer, Crisis Group's Caucasus Project Director. "Tbilisi needs to do much more to build confidence and to encourage minorities to address their problems ...
The Economist: Looks Like Armenia Has Mastered Levitation
Yesterday PanArmenian Network
... the Caspian to the Mediterranean, doglegging round Armenia, mean that renewed fighting would echo far beyond the Caucasus. Internationally sponsored talks about Karabakh limp on-Mr Oskanian met his Azerbaijani counterpart this week-and Western ...
Baku: Report Re Azerbaijan In Nato Pa Security And Defense Committee
Yesterday Groong Armenian News Network
... Assembly, Ziyafet Askerov, briefed the media, Trend reports. "Issues such as the interaction of the South Caucasus countries (Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia) with NATO, social, political and economical situation in these countries and other topics ...
Baku Afraid Of Changes On French Political Arena
Yesterday Groong Armenian News Network
BAKU AFRAID OF CHANGES ON FRENCH POLITICAL ARENA PanARMENIAN.Net 21.11.2006 18:35 GMT+04:00 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Segolène Royal's ascent can deal a painful blow to France's interests in the South Caucasus.
PACE Offers To Create EU Model In South Caucasus
Yesterday Groong Armenian News Network
PACE OFFERS TO CREATE EU MODEL IN SOUTH CAUCASUS PanARMENIAN.Net 21.11.2006 15:45 GMT+04:00 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Presently the chances of the South Caucasian states to join the EU are vague, Armenian National ...
Georgia seeks gas from Shahdeniz to heal gas shortage
Yesterday Turkish Daily News
... up from $110, as of 2007, and Russian energy giant Gazprom said it would stop gas deliveries to the southern Caucasus nation on Jan. 1 if Georgia does not sign a new contract with the new price. A pipeline transporting natural gas from Azerbaijan's ...
Russian lawmakers "absolutely" against Georgia's NATO entry 24 Nov 2006 20:01, Turkishpress.com ... Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, said Georgia had not met "all the demands" for ... to Georgia as well as blockaded the Caucasus republic and removed its ambassador. NATO Secretary-General ...
Speech by Mr Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, at the International Center for Defence Studies, Tallinn 24 Nov 2006 14:37, Swedish Government ... in the former Soviet era is obviously Georgia down in the Caucasus. This year's important ... reason for this impressive achievement in the Caucasus has undoubtedly been that there seems to ...
Georgians fight to divest Russian roots 23 Nov 2006 09:28, The Miami Herald ... The country of Georgia is under intense pressure from Russia. Georgians ... been saying that Georgia, nestled between the Caucasus Mountains and Black Sea, is gearing up ...
A Murder with a Message 23 Nov 2006 06:05, TIME Europe ... of the brutal conflict in the North Caucasus was evident during the 2002 hostage debacle ... efforts to drum up hostility toward neighboring Georgia following the arrest of four Russian military ...
Georgia's affinity for the West has Kremlin seeing red 23 Nov 2006 00:15, Star Tribune ... TBILISI, GEORGIA - Some Russians believe the former Soviet ... been saying that Georgia, nestled between the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea, is gearing ...