Sunday, July 19, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
CONCERT-TOUR: Tutarchela will give concerts in the next two weeks in Europe. (myspace.com/tutarchelafromgeorgia)
The girls' choir “Tutarchela” was established at the beginning of 2004 in Rustavi, under the guidance of Mrs. Tamar Buadze. The choir consists of 13 singers. Most of the girls have graduated from Tbilisi State conservatory's choir-conducting department. The group performs European and classic songs, folk songs of different countries as well as the folk songs of all the regions of Georgia.
Tomorrow I will go to Lörrach. I am the tourmanager for this common concert tour:
more: www.myspace.com/tutarchelafromgeorgia
Tomorrow I will go to Lörrach. I am the tourmanager for this common concert tour:
| Lörrach | Lörrach | ||
| Kaufmanns Schlachthof | Bruchsal, Baden-Württemberg | ||
| Alte Synago | Hagenow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | ||
| I-Taufers i.M. | |||
| xxx | Adendorf | ||
| Zehntscheuer | Lüneburg | ||
| Kirche | Neetze |
more: www.myspace.com/tutarchelafromgeorgia
ENERGY: He who pays for the pipelines calls the tune (economist.com)
Nabucco and other new gas pipelines may make Europe’s energy more secure, but market liberalisation matters too.
TRAGEDY and farce have too often been the hallmarks of European efforts to improve energy security. Dependence on Russia, which supplied a third of its gas imports through Kremlin-controlled east-west pipelines, seemed to be rising inexorably and worryingly. Squabbling between Russia and Ukraine led to repeated supply cuts. The Russians exploited energy to divide and rule their Western neighbours. Big energy companies in countries such as Germany and Austria sought cosy relations with Russia’s state-controlled gas giant, Gazprom.
The overlap between politics and profit was epitomised by Gerhard Schröder, a former German chancellor. Since 2005 he has been the front man for Nord Stream, the pipeline that is planned to run under the Baltic. Along with South Stream, a sister project across the Black Sea, Nord Stream would let Russia bypass troublesome transit countries, chiefly Ukraine. West European customers could benefit, but the plans alarm countries in the east that are at greater risk of Russian bullying.
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TRAGEDY and farce have too often been the hallmarks of European efforts to improve energy security. Dependence on Russia, which supplied a third of its gas imports through Kremlin-controlled east-west pipelines, seemed to be rising inexorably and worryingly. Squabbling between Russia and Ukraine led to repeated supply cuts. The Russians exploited energy to divide and rule their Western neighbours. Big energy companies in countries such as Germany and Austria sought cosy relations with Russia’s state-controlled gas giant, Gazprom.
The overlap between politics and profit was epitomised by Gerhard Schröder, a former German chancellor. Since 2005 he has been the front man for Nord Stream, the pipeline that is planned to run under the Baltic. Along with South Stream, a sister project across the Black Sea, Nord Stream would let Russia bypass troublesome transit countries, chiefly Ukraine. West European customers could benefit, but the plans alarm countries in the east that are at greater risk of Russian bullying.
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ARTICLE: Zerstörungswut des Marktes - Fotoausstellung in Bremen über Baku (baunetz.de)
Aserbaidschans Wirtschaft wächst infolge des Ölbooms rasant. Das zeigt sich besonders in der Hauptstadt. Der persische Name der kaspischen Metropole Baku – Stadt der schlagenden Winde – verweist nicht nur auf ihr Wetter, sondern auch auf ihre häufigen Wandlungen in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Die traurige Realität der momentanen Veränderungen zeigt nun eine Fotoausstellung im Bremer Zentrum für Baukultur mit dem Titel Stadt der schlagenden Winde – Die Zerstörungswut des freien Marktes im heutigen Baku.In letzter Zeit schießen die Grundstückspreise und die Gebäude in die Höhe. Seit dem Jahr 2000 wurden mehr als 800 neue Hochhäuser in der Innenstadt errichtet. Dabei blickt die Stadt auf ein reiches architektonisches Erbe zurück. Gründerzeitbauten reihen sich aneinander, Boulevards und große Promenaden prägen das Stadtbild und geben der im Kern orientalischen Stadt eine europäische Anmutung, ähnlich Paris oder Berlin. Dieses Stadtbild wird durch den heutigen Bauboom massiv bedroht.
Die schleichende Vernichtung einer maßstäblichen Stadt wird in der Ausstellung durch die Fotografien von Sebastian Burger sichtbar gemacht. Dabei steht die Perspektive jener Menschen im Vordergrund, die von dem Wandel betroffen sind. Sie leben auf Abruf in den alten innerstädtischen Häusern und Quartieren.
Ausstellung: 22. Juli bis 14. August 2009, Mo-Fr 11-17 Uhr
Eröffnung: 21. Juli 2009, 19 Uhr
Ort: Bremer Zentrum für Baukultur (b.zb), Am Speicher XI, 1, 3. OG, 28217 Bremen
Zum Thema: www.bzb-bremen.de
AUSSTELLUNG: Die schlagenden Winde von Baku (kreiszeitung.de)
Mit Fotografien von Sebastian Burger, 17.07.2009
Von Thomas Kuzaj
Architektur: "Stadt der schlagenden Winde" - damit ist nicht etwa, wie man vielleicht annehmen könnte, Bremerhaven gemeint. Und auch nicht Bremen.
Sondern: Baku. Nanu, Baku? "Aserbaidschans Wirtschaft wächst rasant. Das Land erlebt seinen zweiten Ölboom. Formelle und informelle Sektoren florieren. Das zeigt sich besonders in der Hauptstadt. Der persische Name der kaspischen Metropole Baku - Stadt der schlagenden Winde - verweist nicht nur auf ihr Wetter, sondern auch auf ihre kontrastreiche städtebauliche Geschichte", heißt es in der Ankündigung einer Ausstellung, die demnächst im Bremer Zentrum für Baukultur (BZB) zu sehen ist - Fotografien von Sebastian Burger, die "die Zerstörungswut des freien Marktes im heutigen Baku" vor Augen führen sollen. Die Ausstellung in den BZB-Räumen im Speicher XI (Überseestadt) wird am Dienstag, 21. Juli, um 19 Uhr eröffnet. Sie dauert bis zum 14. August, öffnet montags bis freitags von 11 bis 17 Uhr.
Baku hat ein reiches architektonisches Erbe mit europäischer Anmutung, es stammt aus der Gründerzeit. Seit dem Jahr 2000 wurden mehr als 800 neue Hochhäuser errichtet. Ein brisanter Wandel, der Altes vernichtet und Spekulationsobjekten Platz schafft, wie Kritiker klagen. Aspekte dieses Wandels dokumentierte der Fotograf Sebastian Burger im Rahmen seiner Diplomarbeit. Seine Ausstellung entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit der Architektin Oriana Kraemer, die zum Thema einen Bericht verfasst hat.
Von Thomas Kuzaj
Architektur: "Stadt der schlagenden Winde" - damit ist nicht etwa, wie man vielleicht annehmen könnte, Bremerhaven gemeint. Und auch nicht Bremen.
Sondern: Baku. Nanu, Baku? "Aserbaidschans Wirtschaft wächst rasant. Das Land erlebt seinen zweiten Ölboom. Formelle und informelle Sektoren florieren. Das zeigt sich besonders in der Hauptstadt. Der persische Name der kaspischen Metropole Baku - Stadt der schlagenden Winde - verweist nicht nur auf ihr Wetter, sondern auch auf ihre kontrastreiche städtebauliche Geschichte", heißt es in der Ankündigung einer Ausstellung, die demnächst im Bremer Zentrum für Baukultur (BZB) zu sehen ist - Fotografien von Sebastian Burger, die "die Zerstörungswut des freien Marktes im heutigen Baku" vor Augen führen sollen. Die Ausstellung in den BZB-Räumen im Speicher XI (Überseestadt) wird am Dienstag, 21. Juli, um 19 Uhr eröffnet. Sie dauert bis zum 14. August, öffnet montags bis freitags von 11 bis 17 Uhr.
Baku hat ein reiches architektonisches Erbe mit europäischer Anmutung, es stammt aus der Gründerzeit. Seit dem Jahr 2000 wurden mehr als 800 neue Hochhäuser errichtet. Ein brisanter Wandel, der Altes vernichtet und Spekulationsobjekten Platz schafft, wie Kritiker klagen. Aspekte dieses Wandels dokumentierte der Fotograf Sebastian Burger im Rahmen seiner Diplomarbeit. Seine Ausstellung entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit der Architektin Oriana Kraemer, die zum Thema einen Bericht verfasst hat.
Friday, July 17, 2009
EXHIBITION: New Medea art brings artists together (georgiatoday.ge)
The second part will start on 26. august until 26. septembre in the "Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken". The title would be there "Tiflis Transfer". Aditional there would are an art-blog with the same title to the art and to the capital of Georgia - Tbilisi. Arround the 22. August you can find more here in this blog.
Print version (georgiatoday.ge)
By Anna Chichinadze 10.07.2009
The New Medea Theater Collective launched recently a contemporary art project, whose name alludes to mythology and the reason behind the initiative.
German artist Patricia London Ante Paris, creator and the curator of the project, was disturbed with the distance between artists abroad and in post-Soviet countries. She found it difficult to “reach” Europe for many reasons, with visas topping the list.
Patricia gathered the collective of Georgian artists because she said, “We claim to be democratic countries, but we do not even have the freedom of travel.”
Concerned with this issue, she decided to gather her colleagues to participate in one project.
The first show was held at Tbilisi’s New Art Cafe. The collection will travel to Kuenstlerhaus, Saarbrucken, Germany, in August.
The project is built around the story of the legendary “Golden Fleece.” According to Georgian and Greek legends, Jason and his band of Argonauts arrive to the Kingdom of Colchis — today’s Kolkheti in western Georgia — to find the fleece. Princess Medea helps Jason capture the fleece and later escapes with him. Patricia altered the story as if Jason arrived to the region in search of oil, and Medea promised to help him if he would take the princess and her artist friends abroad.
The exhibition includes all genres of new media, such as video, photography, computer graphics, drawing and mixed techniques.
Sofi Babluani, 22, used a mixed technique to show a woman, Media-Medea Magnate, with a ram in her neck and an oil well in the background. Anthea Nicholson drew two human heads over hills, defining their being as a mix of energy, love and oil. Georgian composer Natia Sartania, also known as “Stia,” provided a rather standard, photographed self-portrait shot in a car mirror, which supposedly reveals the Medea’s feminine nature.
Four videos were also exhibited. In one video, two men in black, motley suits made of paper wave their hands back and forth violently, which expresses confusion over the direction in which oil is flowing.
If one listens with closed eyes Stia’s musical accompaniment creates an ancient atmosphere.
However, the video recalls something more modern and less artistic, perhaps because contemporary art is a tight circle. The collective’s artwork was designed to be small, so it could easily bring the works to Germany, hoping the authors will also follow.
“When the works are exhibited, the artists should be there as well,” painter Nino Chipashvili said. “Otherwise the event will pass without reason. To go further in your work, you need contact, changing ideas and emotions. Offers for future collaborations only come after engaging in personal relations with people in the same space where you show your art.”
“London Ante Paris” is Patricia’s alias which she created for her thesis when graduating from the Munich Arts Academy. She took a new surname, presented as a diploma work, and received an excellent evaluation.
“I like when you cannot read one’s nation, class or race because of a name,” Patricia said, expressing her wish for no boundaries for artists around the world.
Print version (georgiatoday.ge)
By Anna Chichinadze 10.07.2009
The New Medea Theater Collective launched recently a contemporary art project, whose name alludes to mythology and the reason behind the initiative.
German artist Patricia London Ante Paris, creator and the curator of the project, was disturbed with the distance between artists abroad and in post-Soviet countries. She found it difficult to “reach” Europe for many reasons, with visas topping the list.
Patricia gathered the collective of Georgian artists because she said, “We claim to be democratic countries, but we do not even have the freedom of travel.”
Concerned with this issue, she decided to gather her colleagues to participate in one project.
The first show was held at Tbilisi’s New Art Cafe. The collection will travel to Kuenstlerhaus, Saarbrucken, Germany, in August.
The project is built around the story of the legendary “Golden Fleece.” According to Georgian and Greek legends, Jason and his band of Argonauts arrive to the Kingdom of Colchis — today’s Kolkheti in western Georgia — to find the fleece. Princess Medea helps Jason capture the fleece and later escapes with him. Patricia altered the story as if Jason arrived to the region in search of oil, and Medea promised to help him if he would take the princess and her artist friends abroad.
The exhibition includes all genres of new media, such as video, photography, computer graphics, drawing and mixed techniques.
Sofi Babluani, 22, used a mixed technique to show a woman, Media-Medea Magnate, with a ram in her neck and an oil well in the background. Anthea Nicholson drew two human heads over hills, defining their being as a mix of energy, love and oil. Georgian composer Natia Sartania, also known as “Stia,” provided a rather standard, photographed self-portrait shot in a car mirror, which supposedly reveals the Medea’s feminine nature.
Four videos were also exhibited. In one video, two men in black, motley suits made of paper wave their hands back and forth violently, which expresses confusion over the direction in which oil is flowing.
If one listens with closed eyes Stia’s musical accompaniment creates an ancient atmosphere.
However, the video recalls something more modern and less artistic, perhaps because contemporary art is a tight circle. The collective’s artwork was designed to be small, so it could easily bring the works to Germany, hoping the authors will also follow.
“When the works are exhibited, the artists should be there as well,” painter Nino Chipashvili said. “Otherwise the event will pass without reason. To go further in your work, you need contact, changing ideas and emotions. Offers for future collaborations only come after engaging in personal relations with people in the same space where you show your art.”
“London Ante Paris” is Patricia’s alias which she created for her thesis when graduating from the Munich Arts Academy. She took a new surname, presented as a diploma work, and received an excellent evaluation.
“I like when you cannot read one’s nation, class or race because of a name,” Patricia said, expressing her wish for no boundaries for artists around the world.
FEATURE: Journey to Armenia: Komitas - The Saddest Music in the World. (bbc.co.uk)
British writer Toby Litt travels to Armenia in search of Komitas, an orphan whose musical talent turned him into the voice of his country. Six decades after his death in 1935, his music and the vast body of folk songs that he collected guarantees him a unique place in Armenian culture, remembered and revered as much by cow herdsmen as by musicians.
Please click on the link below or copy and paste the text to hear the programme.
link >>>
Music of Armenia
http://www.musicofarmenia.com/
Please click on the link below or copy and paste the text to hear the programme.
link >>>
Music of Armenia
http://www.musicofarmenia.com/
NACHRICHTEN: Mord an russischer Menschenrechtlerin (eurotopics.net)
Am Mittwoch haben Unbekannte in der tschetschenischen Hauptstadt Grosny die russische Menschenrechtsaktivistin Natalija Estemirowa entführt und getötet. Sie arbeitete für die Menschenrechtsorganisation "Memorial" und galt als enge Vertraute der ebenfalls ermordeten Journalistin Anna Politkowskaja.
El País - Spanien "Wenige Dinge haben in Russland weniger Konsequenzen als der Mord an denjenigen, die die herrschende Missachtung der Menschenrechte dokumentieren", schreibt die linksliberale Tageszeitung El País: "Der Mord an Natalija Estemirowa beleuchtet erneut die dringliche Notwendigkeit, dass Europa und die USA, die gestern ihre Empörung geäußert haben, das Thema der Menschenrechte in den Mittelpunkt jeglichen Dialogs mit Moskau stellen. ... Sowohl für die Europäische Union als auch für die USA, wo Barack Obama dieser Tage mit der medienwirksamen Idee spielt, die Beziehungen zwischen Washington und Moskau von Null beginnen zu lassen, wäre ein demokratisches Russland ein wesentlich vertrauenswürdigerer, stabilerer ... Partner als das aktuelle autoritäre [Russland]." (17.07.2009)
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Delo - Slowenien Die Ermordung der Menschenrechtsaktivistin Natalija Estemirowa habe Auswirkungen auf die Berichterstattung über die Konfliktregion Nordkaukasus, schreibt die Tageszeitung Delo: "Die Ermordung Natalija Estemirowas, die den alternativen Nobelpreis ... bekommen hat, ist für Russland ein eigenartiger Wendepunkt. Menschenrechtsaktivisten waren bisher die einzige Informationsquelle über die Greueltaten in Tschetschenien. Deshalb werden sie auch einer nach dem anderen umgebracht. Doch wer wird die Wahrheit über den Nordkaukasus weitergeben, wenn auch diese mutigen Berichterstatter verstummen? Deshalb ist es höchste Zeit, dass die internationale Gemeinschaft endlich die Augen öffnet. Die Verbrechen, die die russische Armee und ihre Helfer begehen, sind nämlich nicht weniger grausam, als die die [der frühere serbische Präsident Slobodan] Milošević im ehemaligen Jugoslawien begangen hat." (17.07.2009)
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Die Presse - Österreich Natalja Estemirowa ist das letzte Opfer einer ganzen Serie von Morden an Menschenrechtlern in Russland, von denen die meisten unaufgeklärt seien, schreibt die Presse: "Die russische Justiz ist lichtempfindlich. Diese Aggression gegen jegliche Form von Transparenz könnte ein Grund sein, dass Dutzende Morde an Journalisten und Menschenrechtsaktivisten unaufgeklärt bleiben. Vor allem die Hintermänner und Auftraggeber bleiben oft im Verborgenen. So im Fall [der Journalistin Anna] Politkowskaja, den die Staatsanwaltschaft mit der Verurteilung von Mittätern schnell abschließen wollte, obwohl die Auftraggeber bis dato unbekannt geblieben sind. Und auch im Fall [des Journalisten] Paul Chlebnikow, bei dem nicht nur die Auftraggeber, sondern auch die Ausführenden frei herumlaufen. ... Diese Tradition verheißt auch im Fall der tschetschenischen Menschenrechtsaktivistin Natalja Estemirowa nichts Gutes." (17.07.2009) » zum ganzen Artikel (externer Link, deutsch)
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Corriere del Ticino - Schweiz Der russische Präsident Dmitrij Medwedjew könnte sich mit seiner Reaktion auf den Mord an Natalja Estemirowa vom Clan des Ministerpräsidenten Wladimir Putin emanzipieren, mutmaßt die liberale Tageszeitung Corriere del Ticino: "Der russische Präsident zeigt sich empört ... und hat auch zugestanden, dass der Mord eindeutig mit dem Menschenrechtsengagement von Natalja Estemirowa zusammenhängt. Die Frage ist, ob dieser größeren Sensibilität, die der neue Kreml-Chef an den Tag legt, auch ein Marschroutenwechsel Moskaus im Schutz der Menschenrechte folgen wird, oder ob es - angesichts des Aufsehens, das die neue Bluttat bei der internationalen Gemeinschaft erregt hat - nur eine Scheinreaktion ist. Das Schweigen von Putin, der in seiner Rolle als Premier eng mit Medwedjew zusammenarbeitet, über den Vorfall ist kein ermutigendes Zeichen. Wenig ermutigend ist auch die Tatsache ist, dass die Ermittlungen zum Mord an Natalja Estemirowa Alexander Bastrikin anvertraut worden sind. Er ist der kontroverse Chef des Ermittlungsausschusses, der mit Putin liiert ist und über dessen Misserfolg im Fall Politkowskaja viel geredet wird." (17.07.2009)
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Gazeta Wyborcza - Polen Die liberale Tageszeitung Gazeta Wyborcza befasst sich mit den politischen Zielen der Aktivistin Natalija Estemirowa in Tschetschenien: "Einerseits ist es gut, dass man solche Menschen wie Natalija Estemirowa an jeder Ecke Russlands finden kann. Andererseits ist es tragisch, dass sie sich immer in der Schusslinie befinden. Und es sieht auch nicht danach aus, dass sich das so schnell ändern wird. ... Estemirowa war - ähnlich übrigens wie [Anna] Politkowskaja - keine Anhängerin der Unabhängigkeit von Tschetschenien. Sie war gegen die Fanatiker, die Tschetschenien in den führungslosen 1990er Jahren beherrscht und dort versucht haben, die Scharia [islamisches Recht] einzuführen. Und denen es in Wirklichkeit nur ums Geld ging und darum, die Macht ungeteilt ausüben zu können. ... Estermirowa ging es darum, dass Tschetschenien eine echte Autonomie innerhalb Russland bekommt. Und es ging ihr vor allem darum, dass es dort nicht zu Vergewaltigung und Rechtlosigkeit kommt - unabhängig davon, wer in der Republik herrscht." (17.07.2009)
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more (guardian.co.uk.):
Journalists and human rights lawyers killed in Russia
Chechen president threatened murdered campaigner, human rights group alleges
Award-winning human rights campaigner murdered in Chechnya
El País - Spanien "Wenige Dinge haben in Russland weniger Konsequenzen als der Mord an denjenigen, die die herrschende Missachtung der Menschenrechte dokumentieren", schreibt die linksliberale Tageszeitung El País: "Der Mord an Natalija Estemirowa beleuchtet erneut die dringliche Notwendigkeit, dass Europa und die USA, die gestern ihre Empörung geäußert haben, das Thema der Menschenrechte in den Mittelpunkt jeglichen Dialogs mit Moskau stellen. ... Sowohl für die Europäische Union als auch für die USA, wo Barack Obama dieser Tage mit der medienwirksamen Idee spielt, die Beziehungen zwischen Washington und Moskau von Null beginnen zu lassen, wäre ein demokratisches Russland ein wesentlich vertrauenswürdigerer, stabilerer ... Partner als das aktuelle autoritäre [Russland]." (17.07.2009)
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Delo - Slowenien Die Ermordung der Menschenrechtsaktivistin Natalija Estemirowa habe Auswirkungen auf die Berichterstattung über die Konfliktregion Nordkaukasus, schreibt die Tageszeitung Delo: "Die Ermordung Natalija Estemirowas, die den alternativen Nobelpreis ... bekommen hat, ist für Russland ein eigenartiger Wendepunkt. Menschenrechtsaktivisten waren bisher die einzige Informationsquelle über die Greueltaten in Tschetschenien. Deshalb werden sie auch einer nach dem anderen umgebracht. Doch wer wird die Wahrheit über den Nordkaukasus weitergeben, wenn auch diese mutigen Berichterstatter verstummen? Deshalb ist es höchste Zeit, dass die internationale Gemeinschaft endlich die Augen öffnet. Die Verbrechen, die die russische Armee und ihre Helfer begehen, sind nämlich nicht weniger grausam, als die die [der frühere serbische Präsident Slobodan] Milošević im ehemaligen Jugoslawien begangen hat." (17.07.2009)
» weiterführende Informationen (externer Link, slowenisch)
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Die Presse - Österreich Natalja Estemirowa ist das letzte Opfer einer ganzen Serie von Morden an Menschenrechtlern in Russland, von denen die meisten unaufgeklärt seien, schreibt die Presse: "Die russische Justiz ist lichtempfindlich. Diese Aggression gegen jegliche Form von Transparenz könnte ein Grund sein, dass Dutzende Morde an Journalisten und Menschenrechtsaktivisten unaufgeklärt bleiben. Vor allem die Hintermänner und Auftraggeber bleiben oft im Verborgenen. So im Fall [der Journalistin Anna] Politkowskaja, den die Staatsanwaltschaft mit der Verurteilung von Mittätern schnell abschließen wollte, obwohl die Auftraggeber bis dato unbekannt geblieben sind. Und auch im Fall [des Journalisten] Paul Chlebnikow, bei dem nicht nur die Auftraggeber, sondern auch die Ausführenden frei herumlaufen. ... Diese Tradition verheißt auch im Fall der tschetschenischen Menschenrechtsaktivistin Natalja Estemirowa nichts Gutes." (17.07.2009) » zum ganzen Artikel (externer Link, deutsch)
Mehr aus der Presseschau zu den Themen » Kriminalität / Rechtsprechung, » Russland
Alle verfügbaren Texte von » Eduard Steiner
Corriere del Ticino - Schweiz Der russische Präsident Dmitrij Medwedjew könnte sich mit seiner Reaktion auf den Mord an Natalja Estemirowa vom Clan des Ministerpräsidenten Wladimir Putin emanzipieren, mutmaßt die liberale Tageszeitung Corriere del Ticino: "Der russische Präsident zeigt sich empört ... und hat auch zugestanden, dass der Mord eindeutig mit dem Menschenrechtsengagement von Natalja Estemirowa zusammenhängt. Die Frage ist, ob dieser größeren Sensibilität, die der neue Kreml-Chef an den Tag legt, auch ein Marschroutenwechsel Moskaus im Schutz der Menschenrechte folgen wird, oder ob es - angesichts des Aufsehens, das die neue Bluttat bei der internationalen Gemeinschaft erregt hat - nur eine Scheinreaktion ist. Das Schweigen von Putin, der in seiner Rolle als Premier eng mit Medwedjew zusammenarbeitet, über den Vorfall ist kein ermutigendes Zeichen. Wenig ermutigend ist auch die Tatsache ist, dass die Ermittlungen zum Mord an Natalja Estemirowa Alexander Bastrikin anvertraut worden sind. Er ist der kontroverse Chef des Ermittlungsausschusses, der mit Putin liiert ist und über dessen Misserfolg im Fall Politkowskaja viel geredet wird." (17.07.2009)
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Gazeta Wyborcza - Polen Die liberale Tageszeitung Gazeta Wyborcza befasst sich mit den politischen Zielen der Aktivistin Natalija Estemirowa in Tschetschenien: "Einerseits ist es gut, dass man solche Menschen wie Natalija Estemirowa an jeder Ecke Russlands finden kann. Andererseits ist es tragisch, dass sie sich immer in der Schusslinie befinden. Und es sieht auch nicht danach aus, dass sich das so schnell ändern wird. ... Estemirowa war - ähnlich übrigens wie [Anna] Politkowskaja - keine Anhängerin der Unabhängigkeit von Tschetschenien. Sie war gegen die Fanatiker, die Tschetschenien in den führungslosen 1990er Jahren beherrscht und dort versucht haben, die Scharia [islamisches Recht] einzuführen. Und denen es in Wirklichkeit nur ums Geld ging und darum, die Macht ungeteilt ausüben zu können. ... Estermirowa ging es darum, dass Tschetschenien eine echte Autonomie innerhalb Russland bekommt. Und es ging ihr vor allem darum, dass es dort nicht zu Vergewaltigung und Rechtlosigkeit kommt - unabhängig davon, wer in der Republik herrscht." (17.07.2009)
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more (guardian.co.uk.):
Journalists and human rights lawyers killed in Russia
Chechen president threatened murdered campaigner, human rights group alleges
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WEB: VISIONS FOR KARABAKH IN 2014 (c-r.org)
In an effort to stimulate discussion about where the Karabakh conflict is heading and where the best hopes for a peaceful resolution lie, Conciliation Resources has commissioned papers from three Armenian and three Azerbaijani analysts, asking them to depict scenarios for how the conflict might look in 2014.
They presented these papers at a seminar at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London on July 10, 2009, with former US Karabakh negotiator Carey Cavanaugh leading a discussion in
the final session.
For more information and downloads of the papers, please visit:
http://www.c-r.org/our-work/caucasus/karabakh-2014.php
Christopher Selbach
Caucasus Programme Director
Conciliation Resources
173 Upper Street
London
N1 1RG
Email: chris.selbach@gmx.de
Web: http://www.c-r.org
UK charity number 1055436
Conciliation Resources (CR) is an independent non-governmental organization working to prevent violence, promote justice and transform conflict into opportunities for development.
They presented these papers at a seminar at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London on July 10, 2009, with former US Karabakh negotiator Carey Cavanaugh leading a discussion in
the final session.
For more information and downloads of the papers, please visit:
http://www.c-r.org/our-work/caucasus/karabakh-2014.php
Christopher Selbach
Caucasus Programme Director
Conciliation Resources
173 Upper Street
London
N1 1RG
Email: chris.selbach@gmx.de
Web: http://www.c-r.org
UK charity number 1055436
Conciliation Resources (CR) is an independent non-governmental organization working to prevent violence, promote justice and transform conflict into opportunities for development.
ARTICLE: Turkish-Armenian Rapprochement and Obama’s Policy in The Caucasus
By Vahan Dilanyan
The developments from the Russian-Georgian war of last August, to the global financial crisis brought about essential changes in the political situation in the Caucasus. All the energy programs that have until now been implemented in the region, having Armenia debarred from, have always made the Caucasus “incomplete” in terms of regional security. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and Baku-Supsa pipelines blocked during August war asserted the time for “political railroads, roads and pipelines” is over and that the Caucasus would be more secure if it were full of “economic cross-roads”. In these circumstances, Turkish and Armenian leaders took historic and courageous steps on reconciliation of their over 15 years “closed” relationships. The rapprochement of Turkey and Armenia considers being “a new Door” for resolution the vacuum in the region and creation of good atmosphere for future regional intimacy.
In 1993 Turkey closed the borders with Armenia regarding Nagorno-Karabakh war between Azerbaijan and Armenians. Ankara has always set preconditions on Armenia to opening the borders; withdrawal of Armenian troops from Nagorno-Karabakh and refusal of Armenian Genocide done by Ottoman Turks in 1915. Instead, Yerevan has been demanding the opening of the border and the establishment of diplomatic relations "without any precondition."
Turkey and Armenia intensified their negotiations in August 2007 with diplomats regularly meeting in Geneva to discuss the issues related to reconciliation. With President Abdullah Gul's visit to Yerevan in September last year to attend a Turkish-Armenian soccer match, and the meeting between Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and Turkish Prime Minister Tayip Erdogan in January 2009 during World Economic Forum in Davos, indicated the political will of both sides about proceeding with rapprochement. The next meeting of Armenian and Turkish Presidents in Prague on the 8th May 2009 was the “verification of common wishes”; “We agreed to respect the agreement reached,” the Armenian President told reporters.
Since mid 1990s US has worked intensively on establishing a dialogue between Turks and Armenians through meetings among Civil society actors. Both of these two nations entertained big hopes with President-elect Obama. The recent visit to Ankara of US President made obvious that US fully supports the started dialogue between Ankara and Yerevan. “An open border would return the Turkish and Armenian people to a peaceful and prosperous coexistence that would serve both of your nations. That is why the United States strongly supports the full normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia.”- President Obama stated in the Turkish Parliament. Back then both Turks and Armenians were impatient to observe president Obama’s annual April 24 statement, the day when the world’s Armenians commemorate the historical tragedy. Barrack Obama’s campaign promise was to call the mass slaughter of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 a “Genocide”.
Turkey is sensitive about Genocide issue. It had several times been stated by Turkish side that the incremental diplomatic progress could well be lost if Obama recognizes Armenian Genocide. The “solution” was found in April 22, when Turkey and Armenia, together with the Swiss mediators, signed a joint statement saying: “The two parties have achieved tangible progress and mutual understanding in this process and have agreed on a comprehensive framework for the normalization of bilateral relations in a mutually satisfactory manner.” In this context, a road-map has been identified. Later on April 24 American President tried to please all sides, by uttering the Armenian term “Medz Yeghern”, meaning “great calamity” and praising Turkey’s and Armenia’s peacemaking efforts. The Turkish newspaper Hurriyet writes, Turkey signed the agreement under US pressure to escape from the Obama’s possible pronunciation of the term “Genocide”.
The US State Department welcomed the agreement. "It has long been and remains the position of the United States that normalization should take place without preconditions and within a reasonable timeframe," said spokesman Robert Wood. It was obvious that the “road-map” was one of the achievements of Obama’s policy in the Caucasus. It essentially refreshed the US traditional position in Turkish-Armenian dialogue process and balanced the recently activated Russian influence over it.
Baku is distressed about Turkish-Armenian rapprochement as it has always had Turkey's sympathy over Azerbaijan regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. The road-map alarmed the possible end of “one nation-two states” Azeri-Turkish concept as no mention of the Karabakh precondition was there in the agreement. Yet the philosophy of Obama’s security policy considers the opening of Armenian-Turkish borders as a “clue” of re-establishing “Trust” in the region and a stimulus to settle the Karabakh conflict. The "positive mood" created by the Turkish-Armenian roadmap, "gives a new energy to accelerate our work to help resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict" said Matthew Bryza, US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group.
Turkish-Armenian intimacy will also destroy the “century wall” between US and Russia. Armenia is the only country bordering Turkey, a NATO member, where Russia has troops, the only Russian military presence in the Caucasus. After the borders open and diplomatic relations establish, there will be no need of Russian troops presence. It will assist NATO’s enlargement towards the East, and US could see Turkey as a “controller” in the Caucasus. Turkish-Armenian intimacy could positively influence the possible formation of a dialogue between Iran and West taking Armenia’s friendly relations with Iran.
Therefore, this will have a regional re-balancing role on the Russia dimension. The latter though, meets several challenges. Turkey imports 65% of its natural gas and 25% of its oil from Russia, Armenia's railroads belong to Russian Railways and 70 % of the energy sector of the country also is owned by Russians. These facts create obstacles on Armenia’s entire integration to the West through Turkey. However, the re-opening of Kars-Gyumri rail-road, which could be one of the 1st steps of the road-map, is welcomed by Russia as well. Moscow now supports the Turkish-Armenian rapprochement while it has always been worried about loosing control in the Caucasus if Armenia integrates with Turkey. The August war has “cut” Russia’s “connections” with the South. Now it needs to functionalize “alternative connections”, through Armenia and Turkey, while trying to isolate Georgia. Moscow’s will to buy Azerbaijan’s gas which is considered to become one of the main suppliers for Nabucco, and the intention to realize the Russia-Azerbaijan-Iran railroad project, pursues the same purpose.
It should be noted that the Turkey’s recently activated “eastern initiative” has formed a new environment for Turkish-Russian rapprochement. US should take into consideration the recent actions by Turkey; the fact that Turkey, being a NATO member, kept a neutral position in Russian-Georgian war and the “Security Platform in Caucasus” offered by Turkey without the consent of the United States. However, Obama’s opposition on the war in Iraq, which caused Turkey to turn away from the US, has created a good atmosphere to re-evaluate the American-Turkish partnership. The recent visit of president Obama to Turkey was a big boost towards this end. The US full support on Turkish-Armenian dialogue adds on to the reconsideration of the Turkish role in key energy pipelines. In this case, if Turkey, under US pressure, manages to reach to stabilized relations with Armenia, new routes for natural gas to Europe could open up in the future, decreasing Russian leverage against Europe. The law of Geopolitics highlights that the closeness of two Eurasian Powers’ interests is timely, and that they naturally confront. Thus, Turkey should realize the rapprochement with Russian isn’t long-lasting. Besides, Obama’s new administration should coordinate efforts on keeping up with its traditional image on Turkish-Armenian dialogue formation, which will affect the resolution of other conflicts in the region, create a “window of opportunity” for alternative energy projects and move the Caucasus states towards a common secure future.
Euro-Atlantic Quarterly /2 - 2009/
Article, “Turkish-Armenian Rapprochement and Obama’s Policy in The Caucasus” published in Euro-Atlantic Quarterly in Slovak (2/2009 edition).
It was published a week ago and will appear on the EAQ website later.
I am sending you the English version of it.
Best regards,
Euro-Atlantic Quarterly is about security, defense and international issues. It is a magazine of the Slovak Atlantic Commission. SAC is the member of the Atlantic Treaty Association http://www.ata-sec.org/.
------------------------
Vahan Dilanyan
Chairman, Political Developments Research Centre
Yerevan, Armenia
http://vahand.wordpress.com/
(+374) 94 806 098
The developments from the Russian-Georgian war of last August, to the global financial crisis brought about essential changes in the political situation in the Caucasus. All the energy programs that have until now been implemented in the region, having Armenia debarred from, have always made the Caucasus “incomplete” in terms of regional security. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and Baku-Supsa pipelines blocked during August war asserted the time for “political railroads, roads and pipelines” is over and that the Caucasus would be more secure if it were full of “economic cross-roads”. In these circumstances, Turkish and Armenian leaders took historic and courageous steps on reconciliation of their over 15 years “closed” relationships. The rapprochement of Turkey and Armenia considers being “a new Door” for resolution the vacuum in the region and creation of good atmosphere for future regional intimacy.
In 1993 Turkey closed the borders with Armenia regarding Nagorno-Karabakh war between Azerbaijan and Armenians. Ankara has always set preconditions on Armenia to opening the borders; withdrawal of Armenian troops from Nagorno-Karabakh and refusal of Armenian Genocide done by Ottoman Turks in 1915. Instead, Yerevan has been demanding the opening of the border and the establishment of diplomatic relations "without any precondition."
Turkey and Armenia intensified their negotiations in August 2007 with diplomats regularly meeting in Geneva to discuss the issues related to reconciliation. With President Abdullah Gul's visit to Yerevan in September last year to attend a Turkish-Armenian soccer match, and the meeting between Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and Turkish Prime Minister Tayip Erdogan in January 2009 during World Economic Forum in Davos, indicated the political will of both sides about proceeding with rapprochement. The next meeting of Armenian and Turkish Presidents in Prague on the 8th May 2009 was the “verification of common wishes”; “We agreed to respect the agreement reached,” the Armenian President told reporters.
Since mid 1990s US has worked intensively on establishing a dialogue between Turks and Armenians through meetings among Civil society actors. Both of these two nations entertained big hopes with President-elect Obama. The recent visit to Ankara of US President made obvious that US fully supports the started dialogue between Ankara and Yerevan. “An open border would return the Turkish and Armenian people to a peaceful and prosperous coexistence that would serve both of your nations. That is why the United States strongly supports the full normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia.”- President Obama stated in the Turkish Parliament. Back then both Turks and Armenians were impatient to observe president Obama’s annual April 24 statement, the day when the world’s Armenians commemorate the historical tragedy. Barrack Obama’s campaign promise was to call the mass slaughter of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 a “Genocide”.
Turkey is sensitive about Genocide issue. It had several times been stated by Turkish side that the incremental diplomatic progress could well be lost if Obama recognizes Armenian Genocide. The “solution” was found in April 22, when Turkey and Armenia, together with the Swiss mediators, signed a joint statement saying: “The two parties have achieved tangible progress and mutual understanding in this process and have agreed on a comprehensive framework for the normalization of bilateral relations in a mutually satisfactory manner.” In this context, a road-map has been identified. Later on April 24 American President tried to please all sides, by uttering the Armenian term “Medz Yeghern”, meaning “great calamity” and praising Turkey’s and Armenia’s peacemaking efforts. The Turkish newspaper Hurriyet writes, Turkey signed the agreement under US pressure to escape from the Obama’s possible pronunciation of the term “Genocide”.
The US State Department welcomed the agreement. "It has long been and remains the position of the United States that normalization should take place without preconditions and within a reasonable timeframe," said spokesman Robert Wood. It was obvious that the “road-map” was one of the achievements of Obama’s policy in the Caucasus. It essentially refreshed the US traditional position in Turkish-Armenian dialogue process and balanced the recently activated Russian influence over it.
Baku is distressed about Turkish-Armenian rapprochement as it has always had Turkey's sympathy over Azerbaijan regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. The road-map alarmed the possible end of “one nation-two states” Azeri-Turkish concept as no mention of the Karabakh precondition was there in the agreement. Yet the philosophy of Obama’s security policy considers the opening of Armenian-Turkish borders as a “clue” of re-establishing “Trust” in the region and a stimulus to settle the Karabakh conflict. The "positive mood" created by the Turkish-Armenian roadmap, "gives a new energy to accelerate our work to help resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict" said Matthew Bryza, US Co-Chair of the OSCE Minsk Group.
Turkish-Armenian intimacy will also destroy the “century wall” between US and Russia. Armenia is the only country bordering Turkey, a NATO member, where Russia has troops, the only Russian military presence in the Caucasus. After the borders open and diplomatic relations establish, there will be no need of Russian troops presence. It will assist NATO’s enlargement towards the East, and US could see Turkey as a “controller” in the Caucasus. Turkish-Armenian intimacy could positively influence the possible formation of a dialogue between Iran and West taking Armenia’s friendly relations with Iran.
Therefore, this will have a regional re-balancing role on the Russia dimension. The latter though, meets several challenges. Turkey imports 65% of its natural gas and 25% of its oil from Russia, Armenia's railroads belong to Russian Railways and 70 % of the energy sector of the country also is owned by Russians. These facts create obstacles on Armenia’s entire integration to the West through Turkey. However, the re-opening of Kars-Gyumri rail-road, which could be one of the 1st steps of the road-map, is welcomed by Russia as well. Moscow now supports the Turkish-Armenian rapprochement while it has always been worried about loosing control in the Caucasus if Armenia integrates with Turkey. The August war has “cut” Russia’s “connections” with the South. Now it needs to functionalize “alternative connections”, through Armenia and Turkey, while trying to isolate Georgia. Moscow’s will to buy Azerbaijan’s gas which is considered to become one of the main suppliers for Nabucco, and the intention to realize the Russia-Azerbaijan-Iran railroad project, pursues the same purpose.
It should be noted that the Turkey’s recently activated “eastern initiative” has formed a new environment for Turkish-Russian rapprochement. US should take into consideration the recent actions by Turkey; the fact that Turkey, being a NATO member, kept a neutral position in Russian-Georgian war and the “Security Platform in Caucasus” offered by Turkey without the consent of the United States. However, Obama’s opposition on the war in Iraq, which caused Turkey to turn away from the US, has created a good atmosphere to re-evaluate the American-Turkish partnership. The recent visit of president Obama to Turkey was a big boost towards this end. The US full support on Turkish-Armenian dialogue adds on to the reconsideration of the Turkish role in key energy pipelines. In this case, if Turkey, under US pressure, manages to reach to stabilized relations with Armenia, new routes for natural gas to Europe could open up in the future, decreasing Russian leverage against Europe. The law of Geopolitics highlights that the closeness of two Eurasian Powers’ interests is timely, and that they naturally confront. Thus, Turkey should realize the rapprochement with Russian isn’t long-lasting. Besides, Obama’s new administration should coordinate efforts on keeping up with its traditional image on Turkish-Armenian dialogue formation, which will affect the resolution of other conflicts in the region, create a “window of opportunity” for alternative energy projects and move the Caucasus states towards a common secure future.
Euro-Atlantic Quarterly /2 - 2009/
Article, “Turkish-Armenian Rapprochement and Obama’s Policy in The Caucasus” published in Euro-Atlantic Quarterly in Slovak (2/2009 edition).
It was published a week ago and will appear on the EAQ website later.
I am sending you the English version of it.
Best regards,
Euro-Atlantic Quarterly is about security, defense and international issues. It is a magazine of the Slovak Atlantic Commission. SAC is the member of the Atlantic Treaty Association http://www.ata-sec.org/.
------------------------
Vahan Dilanyan
Chairman, Political Developments Research Centre
Yerevan, Armenia
http://vahand.wordpress.com/
(+374) 94 806 098
Thursday, July 16, 2009
CONCERT: Katie Melua Sings for Free in Tbilisi and Batumi - Video: Spider's Web Tbilisi 09' (geotimes.ge)
By Rusudan Gvazava. (www.geotimes.ge)
About 1,000 fans will be given a treat by Katie Melua in Tbilisi as the most famous “British singer of Georgian origin” holds her first solo concert at Tbilisi’s Z. Paliashvili Opera and Ballet State Theatre.
Katie Melua will be performing for a Georgian audience at a charity concert on 14 July. The concert is called "I Believe in Love - Together We Can Save the Future!” Melua will not however be staying in the Georgian capital. She will dash to Batumi the same evening and perform another charity concert in Batumi Boulevard the next day. Iavnana, a charity founded by renowned Georgian opera singer Paata Buchuladze, Melua herself, Eastern Promotions, a local promotional company and the Ministry of Culture, Monument Protection and Sport are organising the concerts.
Almost all the tickets for the Tbilisi performance were sold out in a few days when news of it broke. A girl in the box office told GT that only 15 tickets costing 100 GEL and 165 GEL were left by about 7pm on July 3. Melua’s fans could buy them for 35 GEL, 45 GEL, 100 GEL and 165 GEL earlier. The money from ticket sales will go to Iavnana which will buy two apartments for two homeless families.
“I am preparing very particularly for this concert and am a bit anxious. I do not usually worry before concerts but this one is very important for me and it is special as all my family members will attend,” Melua commented in Georgian with a slight British accent in an interview given to TV channel Rustavi2.
Katie Melua did not make any eccentric or unusual demands when discussing the arrangements for her Georgian concerts, Kakha Kandelaki , Eastern Promotion’s Marketing and PR Manager, said. She only asked for high standard technical equipment.
Katie Melua was born in 1984 in Kutaisi inGeorgia and spent her first years with her grandparents in Tbilisi. In 1993, in the aftermath of the Georgian Civil War, the family moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland. During her time in Northern Ireland, Melua attended St. Catherine's Primary School.
Because of her upbringing in politically unstable Georgia and troubled Belfast, Melua initially planned to become either a historian or a politician. This changed in 2000, at the age of 15, when Melua took part in a talent competition on British television channel ITV called "Stars Up Their Noses" (a spoof of Stars in Their Eyes) as part of the children's programme Mad for It! Melua won the contest by singing Badfinger's "Without You". The prize was £350 worth of MFI vouchers.
At sixteen she joined the BRIT School for the Performing Arts in London, undertaking a BTEC with an A-level in music. She began to write songs at the school. Melua first met her future manager, producer Mike Batt, when studying at the school. She has won many prizes and awards. In 2007 she won the ECHO award for Best International Female Artist and the Goldene Kamera Pop International Soloist award, in 2006 the BRIT Awards Best British Female Solo Artist and the 2005 ECHO award Best International Newcomer, being also nominated for the 2006 BRIT Awards Best Pop Act and 2005 ECHO Award Best International Female Artist. Melua was the best-selling UK female artist of 2004 and 2005.
In 2006 Melua had a tulip named after her. According to VH1, Call Off The Search is the 87th best-selling British album in history.
Katie Melua - Kviteli Potlebi. Tbilisi, 14.07.09
About 1,000 fans will be given a treat by Katie Melua in Tbilisi as the most famous “British singer of Georgian origin” holds her first solo concert at Tbilisi’s Z. Paliashvili Opera and Ballet State Theatre.
Katie Melua will be performing for a Georgian audience at a charity concert on 14 July. The concert is called "I Believe in Love - Together We Can Save the Future!” Melua will not however be staying in the Georgian capital. She will dash to Batumi the same evening and perform another charity concert in Batumi Boulevard the next day. Iavnana, a charity founded by renowned Georgian opera singer Paata Buchuladze, Melua herself, Eastern Promotions, a local promotional company and the Ministry of Culture, Monument Protection and Sport are organising the concerts.
Almost all the tickets for the Tbilisi performance were sold out in a few days when news of it broke. A girl in the box office told GT that only 15 tickets costing 100 GEL and 165 GEL were left by about 7pm on July 3. Melua’s fans could buy them for 35 GEL, 45 GEL, 100 GEL and 165 GEL earlier. The money from ticket sales will go to Iavnana which will buy two apartments for two homeless families.
“I am preparing very particularly for this concert and am a bit anxious. I do not usually worry before concerts but this one is very important for me and it is special as all my family members will attend,” Melua commented in Georgian with a slight British accent in an interview given to TV channel Rustavi2.
Katie Melua did not make any eccentric or unusual demands when discussing the arrangements for her Georgian concerts, Kakha Kandelaki , Eastern Promotion’s Marketing and PR Manager, said. She only asked for high standard technical equipment.
Katie Melua was born in 1984 in Kutaisi inGeorgia and spent her first years with her grandparents in Tbilisi. In 1993, in the aftermath of the Georgian Civil War, the family moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland. During her time in Northern Ireland, Melua attended St. Catherine's Primary School.
Because of her upbringing in politically unstable Georgia and troubled Belfast, Melua initially planned to become either a historian or a politician. This changed in 2000, at the age of 15, when Melua took part in a talent competition on British television channel ITV called "Stars Up Their Noses" (a spoof of Stars in Their Eyes) as part of the children's programme Mad for It! Melua won the contest by singing Badfinger's "Without You". The prize was £350 worth of MFI vouchers.
At sixteen she joined the BRIT School for the Performing Arts in London, undertaking a BTEC with an A-level in music. She began to write songs at the school. Melua first met her future manager, producer Mike Batt, when studying at the school. She has won many prizes and awards. In 2007 she won the ECHO award for Best International Female Artist and the Goldene Kamera Pop International Soloist award, in 2006 the BRIT Awards Best British Female Solo Artist and the 2005 ECHO award Best International Newcomer, being also nominated for the 2006 BRIT Awards Best Pop Act and 2005 ECHO Award Best International Female Artist. Melua was the best-selling UK female artist of 2004 and 2005.
In 2006 Melua had a tulip named after her. According to VH1, Call Off The Search is the 87th best-selling British album in history.
Katie Melua - Kviteli Potlebi. Tbilisi, 14.07.09
INTERVIEW: David Remnick: Natalia Estemirova (newyorker.com)
A couple of years ago, at a memorial service for the great Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya put together by PEN, I had the honor of interviewing onstage one of Politkovskaya’s friends, the human-rights activist Natalia Estemirova. Politkovskaya, who was murdered at her home in Moscow in 2006 (as Michael Specter and Keith Gessen have written in The New Yorker), did her best and bravest work in Chechnya for the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, one of the few remaining outlets with the audacity to continue publishing the truth about Russia in the Age of Putin. In Chechnya, one of her closest friends and sources of information was Natalia.
Natalia was one of those remarkable people whom reporters depend on in every ominous corner of the world: the human-rights activists who know so much, and who give completely of themselves, with little thought to their security. They are the ones who reap no glory or profit; they are the ones for whom the violence and corruption is not a “story” but the center of their lives. Natalia did her work for Memorial, a human-rights group that began during the Gorbachev years. It started out intending to unearth the buried facts of the Stalin era. Now it concentrates largely on the present tense.
This morning, according to news reports, Natalia was kidnapped near her home in Chechnya. She was thrown into a van and disappeared. Now she has been found dead, with two bullet wounds in her head, in the neighboring region of Ingushetia.
It is a horrible event, and yet it is just the latest of many outrages against Russians devoted to truth-telling. Each time, the reaction is the same: the howls of anger, the dramatic funeral, the icy indifference of the Russian government, and a prolonged investigation and a trial scripted by Dostoyevsky.
Below is my interview with Natalia.
Interview from David Remnick >>>
Russian activist Natalya Estemirova found dead >>>
The prize-winning Russian human rights activist Natalya Estemirova was found dead in Ingushetia on Wednesday after being abducted earlier in the neighbouring region of Chechnya, it has been reported. (telegraph.co.uk)
Menschenrechtlerin im Kaukasus erschossen >>>
Die russische Menschenrechtsaktivistin Natalja Estemirowa ist in Tschetschenien entführt und ermordet worden. Sie kämpfte seit Jahren gegen staatliche Willkür in der Region. (sueddeutsche.de)
Natalia was one of those remarkable people whom reporters depend on in every ominous corner of the world: the human-rights activists who know so much, and who give completely of themselves, with little thought to their security. They are the ones who reap no glory or profit; they are the ones for whom the violence and corruption is not a “story” but the center of their lives. Natalia did her work for Memorial, a human-rights group that began during the Gorbachev years. It started out intending to unearth the buried facts of the Stalin era. Now it concentrates largely on the present tense.
This morning, according to news reports, Natalia was kidnapped near her home in Chechnya. She was thrown into a van and disappeared. Now she has been found dead, with two bullet wounds in her head, in the neighboring region of Ingushetia.
It is a horrible event, and yet it is just the latest of many outrages against Russians devoted to truth-telling. Each time, the reaction is the same: the howls of anger, the dramatic funeral, the icy indifference of the Russian government, and a prolonged investigation and a trial scripted by Dostoyevsky.
Below is my interview with Natalia.
Interview from David Remnick >>>
Russian activist Natalya Estemirova found dead >>>
The prize-winning Russian human rights activist Natalya Estemirova was found dead in Ingushetia on Wednesday after being abducted earlier in the neighbouring region of Chechnya, it has been reported. (telegraph.co.uk)
Menschenrechtlerin im Kaukasus erschossen >>>
Die russische Menschenrechtsaktivistin Natalja Estemirowa ist in Tschetschenien entführt und ermordet worden. Sie kämpfte seit Jahren gegen staatliche Willkür in der Region. (sueddeutsche.de)
PHOTOGRAPHER: Temo Bardzimashvili from Georgia (photojournalism.ge)
Temo: Having mostly technical and scientific background (BS in physics from Tbilisi State University, Georgia in 2001; MS in Industrial Mathematics from Michigan State University, USA in 2005; Later working for two years as a software developer in a Georgian phone company), I got interested in photography about four years ago. While initially shooting mostly for pleasure, two years ago I began to use photography professionally when I started writing and taking photos for regional environmental magazine called Caucasus Environment.
In 2007 I applied to Certified Practical Course in Photojournalism at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, which sparked the interest for photojournalism in me. After completing it I decided to enroll English Master's Degree Program in Journalism and Media Management at Caucasus School of Journalism and Media Management at GIPA, where I study now. While studying I continue working as a writer and photographer for different local issues.
I also assist at Certified Practical Course in Photojournalism since 2007.
In August 2008, during the Russian-Georgian conflict, I had a good opportunity to raise my journalistic skills while working as a reporter and a photographer for such issues as The Washington Post and EurasiaNet online magazine. I continue collaborating with these issues presently.
more here: www.photojournalism.ge
In 2007 I applied to Certified Practical Course in Photojournalism at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, which sparked the interest for photojournalism in me. After completing it I decided to enroll English Master's Degree Program in Journalism and Media Management at Caucasus School of Journalism and Media Management at GIPA, where I study now. While studying I continue working as a writer and photographer for different local issues.
I also assist at Certified Practical Course in Photojournalism since 2007.
In August 2008, during the Russian-Georgian conflict, I had a good opportunity to raise my journalistic skills while working as a reporter and a photographer for such issues as The Washington Post and EurasiaNet online magazine. I continue collaborating with these issues presently.
more here: www.photojournalism.ge
AWARD: Justyna Mielnikiewicz, EVE Photographers member, awarded Canon Female Photojournalist 2009. (evephotographers.com)
Congratulations, Justyna!
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As you might have seen already, we've changed our image a little bit. As well as our website, courtesy of Livebooks, that you will be able to visit very soon.
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We are also glad to announce that each of the EVE Photographers member has been given a website courtesy of LiveBooks.
Thanks, LiveBooks!
We invite you all to visit our sites and to leave any impression or comment you want.
Some of them are ready. As for the rest, as soon as we start having them ready we will post the addresses here.
www.agnesdherbeys.com
www.lourdessegade.com
www.newshatavakolian.com
www.maricruppe.com
www.benedictekurzen.com
www.justmiel.org
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As you might have seen already, we've changed our image a little bit. As well as our website, courtesy of Livebooks, that you will be able to visit very soon.
-------------------------------------------
We are also glad to announce that each of the EVE Photographers member has been given a website courtesy of LiveBooks.
Thanks, LiveBooks!
We invite you all to visit our sites and to leave any impression or comment you want.
Some of them are ready. As for the rest, as soon as we start having them ready we will post the addresses here.
www.agnesdherbeys.com
www.lourdessegade.com
www.newshatavakolian.com
www.maricruppe.com
www.benedictekurzen.com
www.justmiel.org
STUDIUM: 70 Plätze für armenische Studenten aus dem Ausland für das Jahr 2009/10
Das Ministerium für Erziehung und Bildung der Republik Armenien lässt bekannt geben, dass für 70 armenische Studenten aus dem Ausland für Jahr 2009/10 Studiumsplätze in Armenien zur Verfügung stehen. Auswahl der Kandidaten wir durch eine dafür gebildete Kommission durch Prüfung der Bewerbungen der Kandidaten erfolgen.
Die Gebührenfreien Studienplätze werden vergeben in den Fächern: Pädagogik, Armenistik, und Kultur. Es ist auch möglich, als ausländischer Student an gebührenpflichtigen Studien teilzunehmen.
Es besteht die Möglichkeit, an den Universitäten an den einjährigen Sprach-Vorbereitungskursen teilzunehmen.
Genauere Informationen sowie Beverbungsformulare finden Sie im Anhang dieser Mail. Diese können auch von der Kanzlei der Diözese unter Tel:0221/7126223 oder per Mail an: armenische_dioezese@hotmail.com angefordert werden.
Kanzlei der Diözese
Die Gebührenfreien Studienplätze werden vergeben in den Fächern: Pädagogik, Armenistik, und Kultur. Es ist auch möglich, als ausländischer Student an gebührenpflichtigen Studien teilzunehmen.
Es besteht die Möglichkeit, an den Universitäten an den einjährigen Sprach-Vorbereitungskursen teilzunehmen.
Genauere Informationen sowie Beverbungsformulare finden Sie im Anhang dieser Mail. Diese können auch von der Kanzlei der Diözese unter Tel:0221/7126223 oder per Mail an: armenische_dioezese@hotmail.com angefordert werden.
Kanzlei der Diözese
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
EXHIBITION: KISS TO SUMMER. Presents Maka Batiashvili.
17 July - 8pm - 8 Sioni Street
The Whip, 61x80cm, oil on canvas, 2009. By Maka Batiashvili
EXHIBITION: "Open Iron Curtain" (tbilisiopenair.com)
Will be opened at Hippodrome, on July 22, at 8 p.m.
The submission of applications for the photo-exhibition - Open Iron Curtain - ended on 1th of July.
More than 50 professional photographers' works were submitted. The qualified photographs will be selected by judges.
The creative prints were successfully received from Berlin Wall Museum too.
Source: www.tbilisiopenair.com
The submission of applications for the photo-exhibition - Open Iron Curtain - ended on 1th of July.
More than 50 professional photographers' works were submitted. The qualified photographs will be selected by judges.
The creative prints were successfully received from Berlin Wall Museum too.
Source: www.tbilisiopenair.com
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
BLOG: Georgien-Tagebuch (blog.zdf.de/3sat.Kulturtube)
Stefan Braunshausen und Matthias Bölinger sind im Juli auf Drehreise für "Kulturzeit" (3sat). Binsenweisheiten und oberflächliche Alltagsbeobachtungen findet man in ihrem Blog. Distanzierte Beschreibungen ihre Reise, wo sie die Lage Georgiens herausfinden wollen, veröffentlichen sie dort online. Und dabei meine ich nicht die skeptische Distanz, die für eine Analyse notwendig ist. Keine Fragen, keine Interviews, keine geopolitischen Recherchen. Aber gängige Klischees kann man nachlesen, dass zum Beispiel Taxifahrer Straßen nicht kennen. Soll das bedeuten, dass man sich im Kaukasus grundsätzlich dumm anstellt?
Normalerweise hätte ich von diesem Format, für welches diese Journalisten arbeiten, mehr erwartet.
Hier geht es zu dem Blog >>>
Normalerweise hätte ich von diesem Format, für welches diese Journalisten arbeiten, mehr erwartet.
Hier geht es zu dem Blog >>>
Mein Komentar dazu: Ich finde, dass man sich schon etwas mehr Mühe geben könnte. Von Journalisten erwarte ich etwas mehr Recherche, etwas mehr Tiefgang etc. ... Für mich ist das eine banale Berichterstattung ... und das von "Kulturredakteuren" !!! Ich erwarte mehr Gewissenhaftigkeit!Oft vermisse ich Autoren, die ein Urteilsvermögen haben, ohne einem Gleichklang zu verfallen, und natürlich auch kritsch sind, nachdem sie in verschiedene Richtungen recherchiert haben. Dabei sollten sie natürlich ihr Einfühlungsverhalten nicht vor die Hunde gehen zu lassen. Das respektvoll geurteilt wird, sollte wohl eine Voraussetzung sein. Und wenn man sich schon darüber hinwegsetzt, würde ich zumindest einen gewissen gewinnenden Humor erwarten ... aber so trocken mit mit der Situation anderer umzugehen, ist einfach krude.
Für den landläufigen Leser, der sich nicht auskennt, entsteht hier ein ziemlich dubioses und oberflächliches Bild!! Keine Mentalität wird beschrieben, kaum Geschichte, nichts wird versucht irgendwie zu erklären. Als Leser will ich doch wissen, was dort wirklich los ist? Es findet kaum eine Annäherung statt. Kein Einfühlungsvermögen, geschweige, dass die Autoren irgendeine Ahnung von der Region haben.
Was soll das? Kann denn jeder irgendwie einen Reisebericht zum besten geben. Von Redakteuren erwarte ich etwas mehr. Das was hier abgeliefert wird, kann jeder! Ich bin enttäuscht! Das ganze klingt, um mal von dem Klang dieses Tagebuches zu sprechen, also es klingt ..., als ob 14-Jährige irgendwie berichten und nacherzählen was sie so unmittelbar während ihres ersten Auslandsaufenthalt so erleben, gehört und gesehen haben ... Normalerweise möchte ich nichts abwerten. Aber dieses Tagebuch ist weniger als durchschnittlich ...
Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, was am Ende dabei herauskommen soll - nach der Drehreise! Ich glaube da werden wieder einmal nur Klischees bestätigt. Blabla ... keine Fragen, nichts wird gewagt ... geschweige denn Persönlichkeiten, die etwas vom Thema verstehen, befragt ... Wo bleibt die Analyse oder das Statement, oder irgendeine kenntnisreiche Darstellung der Situation und des Konfliktes in der Region selbst und natürlich ist die geopolitische Lage nicht zu unterschätzen ...
Und dass die Taxifahrer Straßen nicht kennen ... ist ebenso banal ... mich interessiert doch, wie die Umstände der Menschen dort sind, wie sie sich derzeit fühlen und warum es Probleme gibt? Ich weiß nicht, aber irgendwie vermute ich eine gewisse Arroganz ... Es geht eben wieder einmal nicht über einen unterbewußten Vergleich hinaus.
Immer dasselbe: mittlerweile weiß jeder, dass weltweit zum Beispiel die Straßen in einem schlechteren Zustand sind, als hier bei uns (und das ist zum gähnen) ...
So ein Tagebuch finde ich letztendlich ziemlich anmaßend!
Monday, July 13, 2009
PHOTOGRAPHY: Tango Tbilisi in Garikula. By Irma Sharikadze
Irma Sharikadze took photos near the Villa Garikula www.garikula.org. Her project is calling "Tango Tbilisi in Garikula". But this isn't a fake. Tango is possible in Tbilisi. Nika Lomtadze lived in Berlin and learnt there to dancing Tango. Back in Tbilisi he started Tango Lessons in the New Art Cafe, Orbeliani street. It is an amazing meeting. His german partner Susanne made the couple to a feast for the eyes like the photo by Irma ... When you would like to learning Tango than you can go in the New Art Cafe and ask for Nika!
Three pics from "Tango Tbilisi" >>>
Three pics from "Tango Tbilisi" >>>
AUSSTELLUNG: Sevrugian. Bilder des Orients in Fotografie und Malerei 1880–1980 (kulturkurier.de)
Museum der Weltkulturen mit Galerie 37
Galerie 37 und Hochparterre, Schaumainkai 37
6.12.2008–12.7.2009 Museum der Weltkulturen, Galerie 37 und Hochparterre
Schaumainkai 37
Die Ausstellung "Sevrugian. Bilder des Orients in Fotografie und Malerei 1880–1980" zeigt 97 Werke zweier armenischer Künstler im Kontext ihrer Familiengeschichte. Bei den Künstlern handelt es sich um Vater und Sohn, die einer Diplomatenfamilie in Teheran entstammten.
Der Fotograf Antoine-Khan Sevruguin (ca. 1840–1933) und der Maler André "Darvish" Sevrugian (1894–1996) gehörten der großbürgerlichen Oberschicht Teherans an, die als Kosmopoliten über nationale Grenzen hinweg im kulturellen, wissenschaftlichen und künstlerischen Austausch der damaligen Zeit standen. Antoine Sevruguin und André Sevrugian – der Sohn verwendete seinen Familiennamen in die ursprünglichen armenische Schreibweise – waren in der armenischen Diaspora in Teheran/Iran zuhause und – obgleich christliche Armenier – in der persischen Kultur tief verwurzelt. Antoine-Khan Sevruguin war Hoffotograf der Schahs Naser ad-Din bis Reza Pahlevi. Auf vielen Reisen durch Persien fotografierte und dokumentierte er das traditionelle Leben unterschiedlicher Bevölkerungsgruppen. Er fotografierte auch antike Monumente in Iran, die in Büchern deutscher Archäologen zwar häufig abgebildet wurden, doch stets ohne Nennung des Künstlers. So ist Antoine in Deutschland – im Gegensatz zu den USA und England – weitgehend unbekannt geblieben.
Der Künstler André "Darvish" Sevrugian widmete viele Jahre seines Lebens der persischen Poesie, deren literarische Bilder er in Anlehnung an den Stil persischer Miniaturen malerisch umsetzte. Seinen Bildern verlieh er durch Farb- und Formgebung Tiefe und Perspektive und seinen Figuren eine starke emotionale Ausdruckskraft. Bekannt wurde er durch seine 416 Illustrationen des Schahname, dem von Ferdousi im 11. Jahrhundert zusammengetragenen "Buch der Könige", sowie Bebilderungen weiterer Dichtungen islamischer Mystiker (z. B. Omar Chajjam, 1048–1128).
So wie Antoine Sevruguin und André Sevrugian in zwei Kulturen – der armenischen und der persischen – zuhause waren, so ist auch ihr künstlerisches Werk durchdrungen von der Zugehörigkeit zu beiden Kulturen. Der besondere Reiz dieser Ausstellung liegt in der Parallele zwischen der multikulturellen Lebenswelt der Sevrugian-Familie und dem Zusammenspiel von östlicher und westlicher Kunst, die in den Fotografien des Vaters und im malerischen Werk des Sohnes zum Ausdruck kommen.
Die Exponate der Ausstellung, die zum Teil erstmalig in Deutschland gezeigt werden, stammen aus der Sammlung Emanuel Sevrugian, des Enkels bzw. Sohnes beider Künstler, der heute in Heidelberg lebt. Die Ausstellung ist ein Kooperationsprojekt zwischen dem Museum der Weltkulturen in Frankfurt am Main und dem Kuratorium Weltkulturdenkmal Kloster Lorsch e. V..
Verantwortlich für Konzept und Inhalt der Ausstellung:
PD Dr. Ulrike Krasberg, Frankfurt am Main.
Katalog zur Ausstellung:
Zur Ausstellung erscheint ein gleichnamiger Katalog im Societätsverlag, Frankfurt am Main, herausgegeben von Ulrike Krasberg (215 S., zahlreiche Fotografien und farbige Abbildungen, Preis € 19,90).
Der Katalog ist ein internationales Projekt mit Beiträgen von Wissenschaftlern und Wissenschaftlerinnen aus Armenien, Iran, den USA und Deutschland.
Ab sofort online:
Sevrugian-Schwerpunktthema im ethnologischen Online-Magazin www.journal-ethnologie.de
In Planung:
Die Ausstellung soll im Anschluss in Wien, Teheran und Eriwan gezeigt werden.
Förderer:
Auswärtiges Amt
Hessische Kulturstiftung
Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG
Fazit-Stiftung
Dezernat Kultur und Wissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main
Amt für Multikulturelle Angelegenheiten
Kooperationspartner:
Armenischer Kulturverein Hessen e.V.,
naxos.
KINO IM THEATER
Medienpartner:
hr2 kultur
Öffnungszeiten:
Di + Do – So 10–17 Uhr
Mi 10–20 Uhr
Mo geschlossen
Eintritt: 4,00 €, ermäßigt: 2,50 €
Kontakt:
Museum der Weltkulturen, Julia Rajkovic-Kamara M.A., Öffentlichkeitsarbeit/Public Relations,
Tel.: 069/212 45115,
E-Mail: julia.rajkovic-kamara@stadt-frankfurt.de
Termine - 12.07.2009 - 10:00 Uhr - Museum der Weltkulturen mit Galerie 37
Kontakt:
Museum der Weltkulturen mit Galerie 37
Schaumainkai 29-37
60594 Frankfurt/Main
museum.weltkulturen@stadt-frankfurt.de
http://www.mdw-frankfurt.de
Telefon: 069-212-31510
Fax: 069-212-30704
Galerie 37 und Hochparterre, Schaumainkai 37
6.12.2008–12.7.2009 Museum der Weltkulturen, Galerie 37 und Hochparterre
Schaumainkai 37
Die Ausstellung "Sevrugian. Bilder des Orients in Fotografie und Malerei 1880–1980" zeigt 97 Werke zweier armenischer Künstler im Kontext ihrer Familiengeschichte. Bei den Künstlern handelt es sich um Vater und Sohn, die einer Diplomatenfamilie in Teheran entstammten.
Der Fotograf Antoine-Khan Sevruguin (ca. 1840–1933) und der Maler André "Darvish" Sevrugian (1894–1996) gehörten der großbürgerlichen Oberschicht Teherans an, die als Kosmopoliten über nationale Grenzen hinweg im kulturellen, wissenschaftlichen und künstlerischen Austausch der damaligen Zeit standen. Antoine Sevruguin und André Sevrugian – der Sohn verwendete seinen Familiennamen in die ursprünglichen armenische Schreibweise – waren in der armenischen Diaspora in Teheran/Iran zuhause und – obgleich christliche Armenier – in der persischen Kultur tief verwurzelt. Antoine-Khan Sevruguin war Hoffotograf der Schahs Naser ad-Din bis Reza Pahlevi. Auf vielen Reisen durch Persien fotografierte und dokumentierte er das traditionelle Leben unterschiedlicher Bevölkerungsgruppen. Er fotografierte auch antike Monumente in Iran, die in Büchern deutscher Archäologen zwar häufig abgebildet wurden, doch stets ohne Nennung des Künstlers. So ist Antoine in Deutschland – im Gegensatz zu den USA und England – weitgehend unbekannt geblieben.
Der Künstler André "Darvish" Sevrugian widmete viele Jahre seines Lebens der persischen Poesie, deren literarische Bilder er in Anlehnung an den Stil persischer Miniaturen malerisch umsetzte. Seinen Bildern verlieh er durch Farb- und Formgebung Tiefe und Perspektive und seinen Figuren eine starke emotionale Ausdruckskraft. Bekannt wurde er durch seine 416 Illustrationen des Schahname, dem von Ferdousi im 11. Jahrhundert zusammengetragenen "Buch der Könige", sowie Bebilderungen weiterer Dichtungen islamischer Mystiker (z. B. Omar Chajjam, 1048–1128).
So wie Antoine Sevruguin und André Sevrugian in zwei Kulturen – der armenischen und der persischen – zuhause waren, so ist auch ihr künstlerisches Werk durchdrungen von der Zugehörigkeit zu beiden Kulturen. Der besondere Reiz dieser Ausstellung liegt in der Parallele zwischen der multikulturellen Lebenswelt der Sevrugian-Familie und dem Zusammenspiel von östlicher und westlicher Kunst, die in den Fotografien des Vaters und im malerischen Werk des Sohnes zum Ausdruck kommen.
Die Exponate der Ausstellung, die zum Teil erstmalig in Deutschland gezeigt werden, stammen aus der Sammlung Emanuel Sevrugian, des Enkels bzw. Sohnes beider Künstler, der heute in Heidelberg lebt. Die Ausstellung ist ein Kooperationsprojekt zwischen dem Museum der Weltkulturen in Frankfurt am Main und dem Kuratorium Weltkulturdenkmal Kloster Lorsch e. V..
Verantwortlich für Konzept und Inhalt der Ausstellung:
PD Dr. Ulrike Krasberg, Frankfurt am Main.
Katalog zur Ausstellung:
Zur Ausstellung erscheint ein gleichnamiger Katalog im Societätsverlag, Frankfurt am Main, herausgegeben von Ulrike Krasberg (215 S., zahlreiche Fotografien und farbige Abbildungen, Preis € 19,90).
Der Katalog ist ein internationales Projekt mit Beiträgen von Wissenschaftlern und Wissenschaftlerinnen aus Armenien, Iran, den USA und Deutschland.
Ab sofort online:
Sevrugian-Schwerpunktthema im ethnologischen Online-Magazin www.journal-ethnologie.de
In Planung:
Die Ausstellung soll im Anschluss in Wien, Teheran und Eriwan gezeigt werden.
Förderer:
Auswärtiges Amt
Hessische Kulturstiftung
Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG
Fazit-Stiftung
Dezernat Kultur und Wissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main
Amt für Multikulturelle Angelegenheiten
Kooperationspartner:
Armenischer Kulturverein Hessen e.V.,
naxos.
KINO IM THEATER
Medienpartner:
hr2 kultur
Öffnungszeiten:
Di + Do – So 10–17 Uhr
Mi 10–20 Uhr
Mo geschlossen
Eintritt: 4,00 €, ermäßigt: 2,50 €
Kontakt:
Museum der Weltkulturen, Julia Rajkovic-Kamara M.A., Öffentlichkeitsarbeit/Public Relations,
Tel.: 069/212 45115,
E-Mail: julia.rajkovic-kamara@stadt-frankfurt.de
Termine - 12.07.2009 - 10:00 Uhr - Museum der Weltkulturen mit Galerie 37
Kontakt:
Museum der Weltkulturen mit Galerie 37
Schaumainkai 29-37
60594 Frankfurt/Main
museum.weltkulturen@stadt-frankfurt.de
http://www.mdw-frankfurt.de
Telefon: 069-212-31510
Fax: 069-212-30704
Sunday, July 12, 2009
NEWS: 10 Jul 09 | Caucasus Reporting Service 501 (iwpr.net)
Azeri Visit to Karabakh Sparks Row
War of words breaks out as public relations exercise by Baku representatives goes wrong. By Samira Ahmedbeili in Baku, Sara Khojoian in Yerevan and Anahit Danielian in Stepanakert (CRS No. 501, 10-July-09)
Georgian Town Hit by Sewage Floods
Crisis legacy of shoddy Soviet-built sewerage systems and a decade of post-independence neglect. By Tamar Uchidze in Akhaltsikhe (CRS No. 501, 10-July-09)
War of words breaks out as public relations exercise by Baku representatives goes wrong. By Samira Ahmedbeili in Baku, Sara Khojoian in Yerevan and Anahit Danielian in Stepanakert (CRS No. 501, 10-July-09)
Georgian Town Hit by Sewage Floods
Crisis legacy of shoddy Soviet-built sewerage systems and a decade of post-independence neglect. By Tamar Uchidze in Akhaltsikhe (CRS No. 501, 10-July-09)
Saturday, July 11, 2009
PHOTOGALLERY: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin by unknown in the Georgian Steppe
photo by Hans Heiner BuhrMore visual interventions and phenomenas, signs, designs, buildings, monuments relics and cultural legacies found in the Caucasus Region by Hans Heiner Buhr - slideshow >>>
RESEARCH: Publications on the countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia (kices.org)
KICES – Koszalin Institute of Comparative European Studies
www.kices.org
Research Centre for East European Studies / Forschungsstelle Osteuropa Bremen
www.forschungsstelle.uni-bremen.de
Publications on the Caucasus and Central Asia – A quarterly bibliography (POCAU+CA) 2 – 2009
An overview of recent English- and German-language academic publications on the Caucasus and Central Asia
POLITICS
Central Asian Survey: Special Issue: Domestic and International Perspectives on Kyrgyzstan's ‘Tulip Revolution’: Motives, Mobilization and Meanings, Central Asian Survey, Vol. 27 (2008), No. 3 & 4.
Chervonnaya, Svetlana: The New Independent States of the Central Caucasus: The Achilles’ Heel of their National Policies, in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1.
Cheterian, Vicken: From Reform and Transition to 'Coloured Revolutions', in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25 (June 2009), No. 2 & 3, pp. 136–160.
Closson, Stacy: State Weakness in Perspective: Strong Politico-Economic Networks in Georgia's Energy Sector, in: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 61 (2009), No. 5, pp. 759–778.
Collins, Kathleen: Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia, Cambridge University Press, June 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0521114660, pp. 400.
Divinianin, A.: The Transcaucasus: Problems and Prospects, in: International Affairs, Vol. 55 (2009), No. 1, pp. 42–50.
Drahokoupil, Jan: After transition: Varieties of political-economic development in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (review article), in: Comparative European Politics, Vol. 7 (2009), No. 2, 279–298.
Ergashev, Bahodyr: The Social-Democratic Parties of Central Asia: Declarations, Specifics, and Projects, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Gegeshidze, Archil: Georgia after the War: Toward Lasting Peace and Stability, in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1. 2
Heathershaw, John: Post-Conflict Tajikistan: The politics of peacebuilding and the emergence of legitimate order, Routledge, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-415-48403-9, Hardcover, pp. 240.
Herron, Erik: Elections and Democracy after Communism?, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0230600959, Hardcover, pp. 256.
Jahn, Egbert (ed.): Nationalism in Late and Post-Communist Europe, Volume 2: Nationalism in the Nation States, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-3969-4, pp. 633.
Lane, David: 'Coloured Revolution' as a Political Phenomenon, in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25 (June 2009), No. 2 & 3, pp. 113–135.
Lundberg, Thomas Carl: Post-Communism and the Abandonment of Mixed-Member Electoral Systems, in: Representation, Vol. 45 (April 2009), No. 1, pp. 15–27.
Macków, Jerzy (ed.): Autoritarismus in Mittel- und Osteuropa, VS Verlag, May 2009, ISBN-13: 978-3531168456, Hardcover, pp. 359.
Markowitz, Lawrence: How master frames mislead: The division and eclipse of nationalist movements in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 32 (May 2009), No. 4, pp. 716–738.
Metreveli, Ekaterine: State Approaches to National Integration in Georgia: Two Perspectives, Silk Road Paper, February 2009, http://www.isdp.eu/files/publications/srp/09/nn09stateapproaches.pdf
Møller, Jørgen: Post-communist Regime Change: A Comparative study, Routledge, Juune 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0415483391, Hardcover, pp. 178.
Nußberger, Angelika: Begrenzungen und Entgrenzungen präsidentieller Macht in post-kommunistischen Staaten, in: Osteuropa-Recht, Vol. 56 (2009), No. 2, pp. 109–129.
Ó Beacháin, Donnacha: Roses and Tulips: Dynamics of Regime Change in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan, in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25 (June 2009), No. 2 & 3, pp. 199–226.
O'Loughlin, John / O Tuathail Gerard Toal, Gearoid: Accounting for separatist sentiment in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the North Caucasus of Russia: A comparative analysis of survey responses, in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 32 (May 2009), No. 4, pp. 591–615.
Ostrowski, Wojciech: The Legacy of the ‘Coloured Revolutions’: The Case of Kazakhstan, in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25 (June 2009), No. 2 & 3, pp. 347–368.
Peimani, Hooman: Conflict and Security in Central Asia and the Caucasus, ABC-CLIO, June 2009, ISBN-13: 978-1598840544, Hardcover, pp. 312.
Rose, Richard: Understanding Post-Communist Transformation: A Bottom Up Approach, Routledge, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-415-48218-9, Hardcover, pp. 240. 3
Schurak, Sebastian: Die Farbrevolutionen: Eine vergleichende Untersuchung anhand der Analyse der Ereignisse in der Ukraine, Georgien und Kirgisien, Grin Verlag, May 2009, ISBN-13: 978-3640326105, Paperback, pp. 32.
Spechler, Martin C.: Human Rights in Central Eurasia: The Unexpected Sides of Economic Growth and Authoritarian Rule, in: Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 56 (March–April 2009), No. 3, pp. 3–16.
Tatum, Jesse David: Democratic Transition in Georgia: Post-Rose Revolution Internal Pressures on Leadership, in: Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3 (Spring 2009), No. 2, pp. 156–171, http://www.cria-online.org/7_4.html
White, Stephen: Is There a Pattern?, in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25 (June 2009), No. 2 & 3, pp. 396–412.
Yovkochev, Shukhrat: The Modernization of Society and Transfer of Power in Muslim Countries, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Zherebkin, Maksym: In search of a theoretical approach to the analysis of the ‘Colour revolutions’: Transition studies and discourse theory, in: Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 42 (June 2009), No. 2, pp. 199–216.
FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY
Abduvalieva, Ryskul: Kyrgyzstan’s Security Problems Today, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Abushov, Kavus: Policing the near abroad: Russian foreign policy in the South Caucasus, in: Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 63 (June 2009), No. 2, pp. 187–212.
Bialasiewicz, Luiza / Dahlman, Carl / Apuzzo, Gian Matteo / Ciută, Felix / Jones, Alun / Rumford, Chris / Wodak, Ruth / Anderson, James / Ingram, Alan: Interventions in the new political geographies of the European ‘neighborhood’, in: Political Geography, Vol. 28, No. 2 (February 2009), pp. 79–89.
Central Asian Survey: Special Issue: Domestic and International Perspectives on Kyrgyzstan's ‘Tulip Revolution’: Motives, Mobilization and Meanings, Central Asian Survey, Vol. 27 (2008), No. 3 & 4.
Cornell, Svante E. / Starr, S.: Frederick (eds): The Guns of August 2008: Russia's War in Georgia, M. E. Sharpe, June 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0765625083, Paperback, pp. 304.
Dodikhudoev, Khurshed / Niyatbekov, Vafo: The Chinese Vector in Tajikistan’s Foreign Policy, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56). 4
Eyvazov, Jannatkhan: Russia in Central Eurasia: Security Interests and Geopolitical Activity, in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1.
Fert, Imre / Soós, Károly Attila: Duration of trade of former communist countries in the EU market, in: Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 21 (March 2009) No. 1, pp. 31-39.
Galbreath, David J.: Putting the Colour into Revolutions? The OSCE and Civil Society in the Post-Soviet Region, in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25 (June 2009), No. 2 & 3, pp. 161–180.
Gegeshidze, Archil: Georgia after the War: Toward Lasting Peace and Stability, in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1.
Guang Tian, Robert: From Internal to External: Challenges Against U.S.’S Central Asian Policy, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Guliyev, Farid / Akhrarkhodjaeva, Nozima: The Trans-Caspian energy route: Cronyism, competition and cooperation in Kazakh oil export, in: Energy Policy, Vol. 37 (August 2009), No. 8, pp. 3171–3182.
Halbach, Uwe / Jenni, Sabine: Nachkriegsentwicklung in Südossetien und Abchasien: Internationale Isolation und Abhängigkeit von Russland, SWP-Aktuell 2009/A 28, June 2009, pp. 8, http://www.swp-berlin.org/common/get_document.php?asset_id=6036
Heathershaw, John: Rethinking the International Diffusion of Coloured Revolutions: The Power of Representation in Kyrgyzstan, in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25 (June 2009), No. 2 & 3, pp. 297–323.
Hovsepyan, Levon: The Turkish Model and Turkey’s Central Asian Policies Conditioned by Western Strategic Interests, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Ipek, Pinar: Azerbaijan's Foreign policy and Challenges for Energy Security, in: The Middle East Journal, Vol. 63 (Spring 2009), No. 2, pp. 227–239.
Janardhanan, Nandakumar: China's search for energy and its strategy towards Central Asia, in: International Journal of Energy Sector Management, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 2, pp. 102–107.
Kolesnichenko, Anna: Institutional Harmonization and Its Costs and Benefits in the Context of EU Cooperation with Its Neighbors: An overview, CASE Network Studies & Analyses No. 387, http://www.case.com.pl/upload/publikacja_plik/25197237_sa387.pdf
Krueger, Heiko: Implications of Kosovo, Abkhazia and South Ossetia for International Law: The Conduct of the Community of States in Current Secession Conflicts, in: Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3 (Spring 2009), No. 2, pp. 121–142, http://www.cria-online.org/7_2.html
Łapczynski, Marcin: The European Union’s Eastern Partnership: Chances and Perspectives, in: Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3 (Spring 2009), No. 2, pp. 143–155, http://www.cria-online.org/7_3.html
Linn, Johannes F.: First Eurasia Emerging Markets Forum: ‘Connecting Central Asia with the World’, in: Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies, Vol. 1 (May 2009), pp. 241–258.
Magomedov, Arbakhan: The Conflict in South Ossetia and the Frontiers of Struggle for the Greater Caspian’s Energy Resources, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
MacKay, Joseph: Running dry: International law and the management of Aral Sea depletion, in: Central Asian Survey, Vol. 28 (March 2009), No. 1, pp. 17–27.
Paramonov, Vladimir / Stolpovskiy, Oleg: Russia and the Central Asian Countries: Bilateral Security Cooperation, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Peimani, Hooman: Conflict and Security in Central Asia and the Caucasus, ABC-CLIO, June 2009, ISBN-13: 978-1598840544, Hardcover, pp. 312.
Radziwill, Artur / Smietanka, Paweł: EU's Eastern Neighbours: Institutional Harmonisation and Potential Growth Bonus, CASE Network Studies & Analyses No. 386, http://www.case.com.pl/upload/publikacja_plik/25194533_CNS&A_386_25_05_09.pdf
Reiter, Erich: Der Krieg um Bergkarabach: Krisen- und Konfliktmanagement in der Kaukasus-Region, Böhlau, May 2009, ISBN-13: 978-3205784043, Paperback, pp. 200.
Rudenko, Elena: A Close-Up View of Indian-Tajik Political Cooperation: The Indian Perspective, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Sadyrbek, Mahabat: Die Zentralasienstrategie der EU: Neues „Great Game― oder neue Chance für die Region?, Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2009, ISBN: 978-3-8300-4334-8, pp. 228.
Starchak, Maxim: U.S. vs Russia: Attempted Cooperation with Turkmenistan in the Security and Defense Sphere, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Telatin, Michela: Armenia: A Defense Reform Through the Looking Glass, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Tolipov, Farkhad: Strategic Friction in Afghanistan and Geopolitical Reversal in Central Asia, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Troitsky, Mikhail: Accepting the Inevitable? in: Russia in Global Affairs, Vol. 7 (April–June 2009), No. 2, http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/numbers/27/1283.html
van Ruiten, Maria: The European Commission and post-conflict rehabilitation in Georgia: Lessons learned, in: Security and Human Rights, Vol. 20 (May 2009), No. 2, pp. 165–174.
Wilson, Jeanne L.: Coloured Revolutions: The View from Moscow and Beijing, in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25 (June 2009), No. 2 & 3, pp. 369–395.
Yazkova, Alla: Russia and the Independent Caucasian States, in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1.
ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Asadov, Farda: The public oversight of oil projects in Azerbaijan, 2004-2007, in: International Social Science Journal, Vol. 57 (May 2009), Supplement 1, pp. 93–106.
Barry, Michael P.: Dutch Disease in Uzbekistan? A Computable General Equilibrium Model of Effects of Foreign Investment into Uzbekistan's Gas Sector, in: Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3 (Spring 2009), No. 2, pp. 189–209, http://www.cria-online.org/7_7.html
Barry, Michael: Post-Soviet Migration to Russia: A Computable General Equilibrium Approach, in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1.
Bruckner, Till: Decision-Making and Georgia's Perpetual Revolution: The Case of IDP Housing, in: Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3 (Spring 2009), No. 2, pp. 172–180, http://www.cria-online.org/7_5.html
Buxton, Charles: NGO Networks in Central Asia and Global Civil Society: Potentials and Limitations, in: Central Asian Survey, Vol. 28 (March 2009), No. 1, pp. 43–58.
Central Asian Survey: Special Issue: Domestic and International Perspectives on Kyrgyzstan's ‘Tulip Revolution’: Motives, Mobilization and Meanings, Central Asian Survey, Vol. 27 (2008), No. 3 & 4.
Closson, Stacy: State Weakness in Perspective: Strong Politico-Economic Networks in Georgia's Energy Sector, in: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 61 (2009), No. 5, pp. 759–778.
Connolly, Richard: Financial vulnerabilities in Emerging Europe: An overview, BOFIT Online, 2009, No. 3, http://www.bof.fi/NR/rdonlyres/BA4C9028-D69D-45CB-ABF1-140ECB129E4C/0/bon0309.pdf
Dao, Minh Quang: Poverty, income distribution, and agriculture in developing countries, in: Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 36 (2009), No. 2, pp. 168–183.
Drahokoupil, Jan: After transition: Varieties of political-economic development in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (review article), in: Comparative European Politics, Vol. 7 (2009), No. 2, 279–298.
Fernandes, Ana M.: Structure and performance of the service sector in transition economies, in: Economics of Transition, Vol. 17 (2009), No. 3, pp. 467–501.
Fert, Imre / Soós, Károly Attila: Duration of trade of former communist countries in the EU market, in: Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 21 (March 2009) No. 1, pp. 31-39.
Fidrmuc, Jan / Tichit, Ariane: Mind the break! Accounting for changing patterns of growth during transition, in: Economic Systems, Vol. 33 (June 2009), No. 2, pp. 138–154.
Galbreath, David J.: Putting the Colour into Revolutions? The OSCE and Civil Society in the Post-Soviet Region, in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25 (June 2009), No. 2 & 3, pp. 161–180.
Garagozov, Rauf: Collective Memory and National Identity in the Globalization Era (Empirical Studies of the Azeri Youth), in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1.
Gentile, Michael / O’Hara, Sarah : Household Incomes in Central Asia: The Case of Post-Soviet Kazakhstan, in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 50 (May–June 2009), No. 3, pp. 327–374.
Grewlich, Klaus W.: Wasser gegen Drogen: Die Nutzung von Wasser als Entwicklungsprojekt in Zentralasien, in: Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, Vol. 2 (Januar 2009), No. 1, pp. 24–34.
Guliyev, Farid / Akhrarkhodjaeva, Nozima: The Trans-Caspian energy route: Cronyism, competition and cooperation in Kazakh oil export, in: Energy Policy, Vol. 37 (August 2009), No. 8, pp. 3171–3182.
Halbach, Uwe: Die Weltwirtschaftskrise in Kaukasien und Zentralasien, SWP-Aktuell 2009/A 20, April 2009, pp. 8, http://www.swp-berlin.org/common/get_document.php?asset_id=5926
Hasanov, Rasim: Management in Transition Economies: An Azerbaijan Republic Case Study, in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1.
Holmes, Leslie: Crime, organised crime and corruption in post-communist Europe and the CIS, in: Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 42 (June 2009), No. 2, pp. 265-287.
International Monetary Fund: Georgia: 2009 Article IV Consultation and Second Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement—Staff Report; Press Release and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Georgia, IMF Country Report No. 09/127, April 2009, pp. 85, http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2009/cr09127.pdf
International Monetary Fund: Republic of Armenia: Request for Stand-By Arrangement—Staff Report; Staff Supplements and Statement; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for the Republic of Armenia, IMF Country Report No. 09/140, http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2009/cr09140.pdf
International Monetary Fund: Republic of Tajikistan - 2009 Article IV Consultation, Final Review Under the Staff-Monitored Program, and Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, IWF Country Report No. 09/174, June 2009, http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=22995.0
Jacobi, Moritz: Das Bildungssystem Zentralasiens im Wandel, Grin Verlag, 2009, ISBN-13: 978-3640294923, pp. 28.
Jahn, Egbert (ed.): Nationalism in Late and Post-Communist Europe, Volume 2: Nationalism in the Nation States, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329--4, pp. 633.
Kalyuzhnova, Yelena / Kutan, Ali M. / Yigit, Taner: Corruption and Economic Development in Energy-rich Economies, in: Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 51 (June 2009), No. 2, pp 161–180.
Kemoklidze, Nino: Victimisation of Female Suicide Bombers: The Case of Chechnya, in: Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3 (Spring 2009), No. 2, pp. 181–188, http://www.cria-online.org/7_6.html
Kyj, Myroslaw J. / Kyj, Larissa: An institution-stakeholder framework for examining business relationship dynamics in a transforming Eastern Europe [Odessa-Brody oil pipeline], in: Journal of World Business, Vol. 44 (July 2009), No. 3, pp. 300–310.
Korhonen, Iikka / Mehrotra, Aaron: Real exchange rate, output and oil: Case of four large energy producers, BOFIT Discussion Papers, No. 6, 2009, http://www.bof.fi/NR/rdonlyres/0A076C57-5214-4A04-A6A1-E29207291A25/0/DP0609.pdf
Lerman, Zvi / Sedik, David: Agricultural Development and Household Incomes in Central Asia: A Survey of Tajikistan, 2003-2008, in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 50 (May–June 2009), No. 3, pp. 301–326.
Linn, Johannes F.: First Eurasia Emerging Markets Forum: ‘Connecting Central Asia with the World’, in: Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies, Vol. 1 (May 2009), pp. 241–258.
Maliszewski, Wojciech: Modelling inflation in Georgia, in: Applied Economics, Vol. 41 (April 2009), No. 10, pp. 1203-1213.
Markowitz, Lawrence: How master frames mislead: The division and eclipse of nationalist movements in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 32 (May 2009), No. 4, pp. 716–738.
Masimli, Ali: Azerbaijan and The World Financial Crisis, in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1.
McBrien, Julie: Mukadas's struggle: Veils and modernity in Kyrgyzstan, in: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 15 (May 2009), Supplement 1, pp. 127–144.
Natelauri, Iza: Microeconomic Environment in Post-Soviet Georgia: Reverses and Paradoxes, in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1.
Nasritdinov, Emil: Regional Change in Kyrgyzstan: Bazaars, Cross-Border Trade and Social Networks, Lambert Academic Publishing, June 2009, ISBN-13: 978-3838300931, Paperback, pp. 176.
Paasiaro, Maija: Home-Grown Strategies for Greater Agency: Reassessing the Outcome of Civil Society Strengthening in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, in: Central Asian Survey, Vol. 28 (March 2009), No. 1, pp. 59–77.
Parks, Lisa: Signals and oil: Satellite footprints and post-communist territories in Central Asia, in: European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 12 (May 2009), pp. 137–156.
Polonsky, Jonny: Equity in community health insurance schemes: Evidence and lessons from Armenia, in: Health Policy and Planning, Vol. 24 (May 2009), No. 3, pp. 209–216.
Pomfret, Richard: Using Energy Resources to Diversify the Economy: Agricultural Price Distortions in Kazakhstan, in: Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 51 (June 2009 ), No. 2, pp 181–212.
Radnitz, Scott et al.: The Origins of Social Capital: Evidence From a Survey of Post-Soviet Central Asia, in: Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 42 (June 2009), pp. 707–732.
Reshiev, Sulaiman: Forming an Effective Mechanism of Sociopolitical Stability in the Northern Caucasus, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Roberts, Ken et al.: Young adults' family and housing life-stage transitions during post-communist transition in the South Caucasus, in: Journal of Youth Studies, Vol. 12 (April 2009), No. 2, pp. 151–166.
Scrimin, Sara et al.: Attention and Memory in School-Age Children Surviving the Terrorist Attack in Beslan, Russia, in: Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, Vol. 38 (May 2009), No. 3, pp. 402–414.
Spechler, Martin C.: Human Rights in Central Eurasia: The Unexpected Sides of Economic Growth and Authoritarian Rule, in: Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 56 (March–April 2009), No. 3, pp. 3–16.
Spence, Martine: Internationalisation of entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan, in: International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, Vol. 3 (April 2009), No. 3, pp. 252–262.
Stan, Lavinia: Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Reckoning with the Communist Past, Taylor & Francis, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-415-77671-4, pp. 328.
van Atta, Don: "White Gold" or Fool's Gold? The Political Economy of Cotton in Tajikistan, in: Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 56 (March–April 2009), No. 3, pp. 17–35.
Werner, Cynthia: Bride abduction in post-Soviet Central Asia: Marking a shift towards patriarchy through local discourses of shame and tradition, in: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 15 (June 2009), No. 2, pp. 314–331.
Whitsel, Christopher M.: Family Resources, Sitting at Home and Democratic Choice: Investigating Determinants of Educational Attainment in Post-Soviet Tajikistan, in: Central Asian Survey, Vol. 28 (March 2009), No. 1, pp. 29–41.
Yovkochev, Shukhrat: The Modernization of Society and Transfer of Power in Muslim Countries, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Ziemer, Ulrike: Narratives of Translocation, Dislocation and Location: Armenian Youth Cultural Identities in Southern Russia, in: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 61 (May 2009), No. 3, pp. 409–433.
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Publications on the Caucasus and Central Asia – A quarterly bibliography (POCAU+CA) 2 – 2009
An overview of recent English- and German-language academic publications on the Caucasus and Central Asia
POLITICS
Central Asian Survey: Special Issue: Domestic and International Perspectives on Kyrgyzstan's ‘Tulip Revolution’: Motives, Mobilization and Meanings, Central Asian Survey, Vol. 27 (2008), No. 3 & 4.
Chervonnaya, Svetlana: The New Independent States of the Central Caucasus: The Achilles’ Heel of their National Policies, in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1.
Cheterian, Vicken: From Reform and Transition to 'Coloured Revolutions', in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25 (June 2009), No. 2 & 3, pp. 136–160.
Closson, Stacy: State Weakness in Perspective: Strong Politico-Economic Networks in Georgia's Energy Sector, in: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 61 (2009), No. 5, pp. 759–778.
Collins, Kathleen: Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia, Cambridge University Press, June 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0521114660, pp. 400.
Divinianin, A.: The Transcaucasus: Problems and Prospects, in: International Affairs, Vol. 55 (2009), No. 1, pp. 42–50.
Drahokoupil, Jan: After transition: Varieties of political-economic development in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (review article), in: Comparative European Politics, Vol. 7 (2009), No. 2, 279–298.
Ergashev, Bahodyr: The Social-Democratic Parties of Central Asia: Declarations, Specifics, and Projects, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Gegeshidze, Archil: Georgia after the War: Toward Lasting Peace and Stability, in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1. 2
Heathershaw, John: Post-Conflict Tajikistan: The politics of peacebuilding and the emergence of legitimate order, Routledge, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-415-48403-9, Hardcover, pp. 240.
Herron, Erik: Elections and Democracy after Communism?, Palgrave Macmillan, May 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0230600959, Hardcover, pp. 256.
Jahn, Egbert (ed.): Nationalism in Late and Post-Communist Europe, Volume 2: Nationalism in the Nation States, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-3969-4, pp. 633.
Lane, David: 'Coloured Revolution' as a Political Phenomenon, in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25 (June 2009), No. 2 & 3, pp. 113–135.
Lundberg, Thomas Carl: Post-Communism and the Abandonment of Mixed-Member Electoral Systems, in: Representation, Vol. 45 (April 2009), No. 1, pp. 15–27.
Macków, Jerzy (ed.): Autoritarismus in Mittel- und Osteuropa, VS Verlag, May 2009, ISBN-13: 978-3531168456, Hardcover, pp. 359.
Markowitz, Lawrence: How master frames mislead: The division and eclipse of nationalist movements in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 32 (May 2009), No. 4, pp. 716–738.
Metreveli, Ekaterine: State Approaches to National Integration in Georgia: Two Perspectives, Silk Road Paper, February 2009, http://www.isdp.eu/files/publications/srp/09/nn09stateapproaches.pdf
Møller, Jørgen: Post-communist Regime Change: A Comparative study, Routledge, Juune 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0415483391, Hardcover, pp. 178.
Nußberger, Angelika: Begrenzungen und Entgrenzungen präsidentieller Macht in post-kommunistischen Staaten, in: Osteuropa-Recht, Vol. 56 (2009), No. 2, pp. 109–129.
Ó Beacháin, Donnacha: Roses and Tulips: Dynamics of Regime Change in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan, in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25 (June 2009), No. 2 & 3, pp. 199–226.
O'Loughlin, John / O Tuathail Gerard Toal, Gearoid: Accounting for separatist sentiment in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the North Caucasus of Russia: A comparative analysis of survey responses, in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 32 (May 2009), No. 4, pp. 591–615.
Ostrowski, Wojciech: The Legacy of the ‘Coloured Revolutions’: The Case of Kazakhstan, in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25 (June 2009), No. 2 & 3, pp. 347–368.
Peimani, Hooman: Conflict and Security in Central Asia and the Caucasus, ABC-CLIO, June 2009, ISBN-13: 978-1598840544, Hardcover, pp. 312.
Rose, Richard: Understanding Post-Communist Transformation: A Bottom Up Approach, Routledge, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-415-48218-9, Hardcover, pp. 240. 3
Schurak, Sebastian: Die Farbrevolutionen: Eine vergleichende Untersuchung anhand der Analyse der Ereignisse in der Ukraine, Georgien und Kirgisien, Grin Verlag, May 2009, ISBN-13: 978-3640326105, Paperback, pp. 32.
Spechler, Martin C.: Human Rights in Central Eurasia: The Unexpected Sides of Economic Growth and Authoritarian Rule, in: Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 56 (March–April 2009), No. 3, pp. 3–16.
Tatum, Jesse David: Democratic Transition in Georgia: Post-Rose Revolution Internal Pressures on Leadership, in: Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3 (Spring 2009), No. 2, pp. 156–171, http://www.cria-online.org/7_4.html
White, Stephen: Is There a Pattern?, in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25 (June 2009), No. 2 & 3, pp. 396–412.
Yovkochev, Shukhrat: The Modernization of Society and Transfer of Power in Muslim Countries, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Zherebkin, Maksym: In search of a theoretical approach to the analysis of the ‘Colour revolutions’: Transition studies and discourse theory, in: Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 42 (June 2009), No. 2, pp. 199–216.
FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY
Abduvalieva, Ryskul: Kyrgyzstan’s Security Problems Today, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Abushov, Kavus: Policing the near abroad: Russian foreign policy in the South Caucasus, in: Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 63 (June 2009), No. 2, pp. 187–212.
Bialasiewicz, Luiza / Dahlman, Carl / Apuzzo, Gian Matteo / Ciută, Felix / Jones, Alun / Rumford, Chris / Wodak, Ruth / Anderson, James / Ingram, Alan: Interventions in the new political geographies of the European ‘neighborhood’, in: Political Geography, Vol. 28, No. 2 (February 2009), pp. 79–89.
Central Asian Survey: Special Issue: Domestic and International Perspectives on Kyrgyzstan's ‘Tulip Revolution’: Motives, Mobilization and Meanings, Central Asian Survey, Vol. 27 (2008), No. 3 & 4.
Cornell, Svante E. / Starr, S.: Frederick (eds): The Guns of August 2008: Russia's War in Georgia, M. E. Sharpe, June 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0765625083, Paperback, pp. 304.
Dodikhudoev, Khurshed / Niyatbekov, Vafo: The Chinese Vector in Tajikistan’s Foreign Policy, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56). 4
Eyvazov, Jannatkhan: Russia in Central Eurasia: Security Interests and Geopolitical Activity, in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1.
Fert, Imre / Soós, Károly Attila: Duration of trade of former communist countries in the EU market, in: Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 21 (March 2009) No. 1, pp. 31-39.
Galbreath, David J.: Putting the Colour into Revolutions? The OSCE and Civil Society in the Post-Soviet Region, in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25 (June 2009), No. 2 & 3, pp. 161–180.
Gegeshidze, Archil: Georgia after the War: Toward Lasting Peace and Stability, in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1.
Guang Tian, Robert: From Internal to External: Challenges Against U.S.’S Central Asian Policy, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Guliyev, Farid / Akhrarkhodjaeva, Nozima: The Trans-Caspian energy route: Cronyism, competition and cooperation in Kazakh oil export, in: Energy Policy, Vol. 37 (August 2009), No. 8, pp. 3171–3182.
Halbach, Uwe / Jenni, Sabine: Nachkriegsentwicklung in Südossetien und Abchasien: Internationale Isolation und Abhängigkeit von Russland, SWP-Aktuell 2009/A 28, June 2009, pp. 8, http://www.swp-berlin.org/common/get_document.php?asset_id=6036
Heathershaw, John: Rethinking the International Diffusion of Coloured Revolutions: The Power of Representation in Kyrgyzstan, in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25 (June 2009), No. 2 & 3, pp. 297–323.
Hovsepyan, Levon: The Turkish Model and Turkey’s Central Asian Policies Conditioned by Western Strategic Interests, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Ipek, Pinar: Azerbaijan's Foreign policy and Challenges for Energy Security, in: The Middle East Journal, Vol. 63 (Spring 2009), No. 2, pp. 227–239.
Janardhanan, Nandakumar: China's search for energy and its strategy towards Central Asia, in: International Journal of Energy Sector Management, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 2, pp. 102–107.
Kolesnichenko, Anna: Institutional Harmonization and Its Costs and Benefits in the Context of EU Cooperation with Its Neighbors: An overview, CASE Network Studies & Analyses No. 387, http://www.case.com.pl/upload/publikacja_plik/25197237_sa387.pdf
Krueger, Heiko: Implications of Kosovo, Abkhazia and South Ossetia for International Law: The Conduct of the Community of States in Current Secession Conflicts, in: Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3 (Spring 2009), No. 2, pp. 121–142, http://www.cria-online.org/7_2.html
Łapczynski, Marcin: The European Union’s Eastern Partnership: Chances and Perspectives, in: Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3 (Spring 2009), No. 2, pp. 143–155, http://www.cria-online.org/7_3.html
Linn, Johannes F.: First Eurasia Emerging Markets Forum: ‘Connecting Central Asia with the World’, in: Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies, Vol. 1 (May 2009), pp. 241–258.
Magomedov, Arbakhan: The Conflict in South Ossetia and the Frontiers of Struggle for the Greater Caspian’s Energy Resources, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
MacKay, Joseph: Running dry: International law and the management of Aral Sea depletion, in: Central Asian Survey, Vol. 28 (March 2009), No. 1, pp. 17–27.
Paramonov, Vladimir / Stolpovskiy, Oleg: Russia and the Central Asian Countries: Bilateral Security Cooperation, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Peimani, Hooman: Conflict and Security in Central Asia and the Caucasus, ABC-CLIO, June 2009, ISBN-13: 978-1598840544, Hardcover, pp. 312.
Radziwill, Artur / Smietanka, Paweł: EU's Eastern Neighbours: Institutional Harmonisation and Potential Growth Bonus, CASE Network Studies & Analyses No. 386, http://www.case.com.pl/upload/publikacja_plik/25194533_CNS&A_386_25_05_09.pdf
Reiter, Erich: Der Krieg um Bergkarabach: Krisen- und Konfliktmanagement in der Kaukasus-Region, Böhlau, May 2009, ISBN-13: 978-3205784043, Paperback, pp. 200.
Rudenko, Elena: A Close-Up View of Indian-Tajik Political Cooperation: The Indian Perspective, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Sadyrbek, Mahabat: Die Zentralasienstrategie der EU: Neues „Great Game― oder neue Chance für die Region?, Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2009, ISBN: 978-3-8300-4334-8, pp. 228.
Starchak, Maxim: U.S. vs Russia: Attempted Cooperation with Turkmenistan in the Security and Defense Sphere, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Telatin, Michela: Armenia: A Defense Reform Through the Looking Glass, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Tolipov, Farkhad: Strategic Friction in Afghanistan and Geopolitical Reversal in Central Asia, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Troitsky, Mikhail: Accepting the Inevitable? in: Russia in Global Affairs, Vol. 7 (April–June 2009), No. 2, http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/numbers/27/1283.html
van Ruiten, Maria: The European Commission and post-conflict rehabilitation in Georgia: Lessons learned, in: Security and Human Rights, Vol. 20 (May 2009), No. 2, pp. 165–174.
Wilson, Jeanne L.: Coloured Revolutions: The View from Moscow and Beijing, in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25 (June 2009), No. 2 & 3, pp. 369–395.
Yazkova, Alla: Russia and the Independent Caucasian States, in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1.
ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Asadov, Farda: The public oversight of oil projects in Azerbaijan, 2004-2007, in: International Social Science Journal, Vol. 57 (May 2009), Supplement 1, pp. 93–106.
Barry, Michael P.: Dutch Disease in Uzbekistan? A Computable General Equilibrium Model of Effects of Foreign Investment into Uzbekistan's Gas Sector, in: Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3 (Spring 2009), No. 2, pp. 189–209, http://www.cria-online.org/7_7.html
Barry, Michael: Post-Soviet Migration to Russia: A Computable General Equilibrium Approach, in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1.
Bruckner, Till: Decision-Making and Georgia's Perpetual Revolution: The Case of IDP Housing, in: Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3 (Spring 2009), No. 2, pp. 172–180, http://www.cria-online.org/7_5.html
Buxton, Charles: NGO Networks in Central Asia and Global Civil Society: Potentials and Limitations, in: Central Asian Survey, Vol. 28 (March 2009), No. 1, pp. 43–58.
Central Asian Survey: Special Issue: Domestic and International Perspectives on Kyrgyzstan's ‘Tulip Revolution’: Motives, Mobilization and Meanings, Central Asian Survey, Vol. 27 (2008), No. 3 & 4.
Closson, Stacy: State Weakness in Perspective: Strong Politico-Economic Networks in Georgia's Energy Sector, in: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 61 (2009), No. 5, pp. 759–778.
Connolly, Richard: Financial vulnerabilities in Emerging Europe: An overview, BOFIT Online, 2009, No. 3, http://www.bof.fi/NR/rdonlyres/BA4C9028-D69D-45CB-ABF1-140ECB129E4C/0/bon0309.pdf
Dao, Minh Quang: Poverty, income distribution, and agriculture in developing countries, in: Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 36 (2009), No. 2, pp. 168–183.
Drahokoupil, Jan: After transition: Varieties of political-economic development in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (review article), in: Comparative European Politics, Vol. 7 (2009), No. 2, 279–298.
Fernandes, Ana M.: Structure and performance of the service sector in transition economies, in: Economics of Transition, Vol. 17 (2009), No. 3, pp. 467–501.
Fert, Imre / Soós, Károly Attila: Duration of trade of former communist countries in the EU market, in: Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 21 (March 2009) No. 1, pp. 31-39.
Fidrmuc, Jan / Tichit, Ariane: Mind the break! Accounting for changing patterns of growth during transition, in: Economic Systems, Vol. 33 (June 2009), No. 2, pp. 138–154.
Galbreath, David J.: Putting the Colour into Revolutions? The OSCE and Civil Society in the Post-Soviet Region, in: Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 25 (June 2009), No. 2 & 3, pp. 161–180.
Garagozov, Rauf: Collective Memory and National Identity in the Globalization Era (Empirical Studies of the Azeri Youth), in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1.
Gentile, Michael / O’Hara, Sarah : Household Incomes in Central Asia: The Case of Post-Soviet Kazakhstan, in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 50 (May–June 2009), No. 3, pp. 327–374.
Grewlich, Klaus W.: Wasser gegen Drogen: Die Nutzung von Wasser als Entwicklungsprojekt in Zentralasien, in: Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, Vol. 2 (Januar 2009), No. 1, pp. 24–34.
Guliyev, Farid / Akhrarkhodjaeva, Nozima: The Trans-Caspian energy route: Cronyism, competition and cooperation in Kazakh oil export, in: Energy Policy, Vol. 37 (August 2009), No. 8, pp. 3171–3182.
Halbach, Uwe: Die Weltwirtschaftskrise in Kaukasien und Zentralasien, SWP-Aktuell 2009/A 20, April 2009, pp. 8, http://www.swp-berlin.org/common/get_document.php?asset_id=5926
Hasanov, Rasim: Management in Transition Economies: An Azerbaijan Republic Case Study, in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1.
Holmes, Leslie: Crime, organised crime and corruption in post-communist Europe and the CIS, in: Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 42 (June 2009), No. 2, pp. 265-287.
International Monetary Fund: Georgia: 2009 Article IV Consultation and Second Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement—Staff Report; Press Release and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Georgia, IMF Country Report No. 09/127, April 2009, pp. 85, http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2009/cr09127.pdf
International Monetary Fund: Republic of Armenia: Request for Stand-By Arrangement—Staff Report; Staff Supplements and Statement; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for the Republic of Armenia, IMF Country Report No. 09/140, http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2009/cr09140.pdf
International Monetary Fund: Republic of Tajikistan - 2009 Article IV Consultation, Final Review Under the Staff-Monitored Program, and Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, IWF Country Report No. 09/174, June 2009, http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=22995.0
Jacobi, Moritz: Das Bildungssystem Zentralasiens im Wandel, Grin Verlag, 2009, ISBN-13: 978-3640294923, pp. 28.
Jahn, Egbert (ed.): Nationalism in Late and Post-Communist Europe, Volume 2: Nationalism in the Nation States, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329--4, pp. 633.
Kalyuzhnova, Yelena / Kutan, Ali M. / Yigit, Taner: Corruption and Economic Development in Energy-rich Economies, in: Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 51 (June 2009), No. 2, pp 161–180.
Kemoklidze, Nino: Victimisation of Female Suicide Bombers: The Case of Chechnya, in: Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3 (Spring 2009), No. 2, pp. 181–188, http://www.cria-online.org/7_6.html
Kyj, Myroslaw J. / Kyj, Larissa: An institution-stakeholder framework for examining business relationship dynamics in a transforming Eastern Europe [Odessa-Brody oil pipeline], in: Journal of World Business, Vol. 44 (July 2009), No. 3, pp. 300–310.
Korhonen, Iikka / Mehrotra, Aaron: Real exchange rate, output and oil: Case of four large energy producers, BOFIT Discussion Papers, No. 6, 2009, http://www.bof.fi/NR/rdonlyres/0A076C57-5214-4A04-A6A1-E29207291A25/0/DP0609.pdf
Lerman, Zvi / Sedik, David: Agricultural Development and Household Incomes in Central Asia: A Survey of Tajikistan, 2003-2008, in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 50 (May–June 2009), No. 3, pp. 301–326.
Linn, Johannes F.: First Eurasia Emerging Markets Forum: ‘Connecting Central Asia with the World’, in: Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies, Vol. 1 (May 2009), pp. 241–258.
Maliszewski, Wojciech: Modelling inflation in Georgia, in: Applied Economics, Vol. 41 (April 2009), No. 10, pp. 1203-1213.
Markowitz, Lawrence: How master frames mislead: The division and eclipse of nationalist movements in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 32 (May 2009), No. 4, pp. 716–738.
Masimli, Ali: Azerbaijan and The World Financial Crisis, in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1.
McBrien, Julie: Mukadas's struggle: Veils and modernity in Kyrgyzstan, in: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 15 (May 2009), Supplement 1, pp. 127–144.
Natelauri, Iza: Microeconomic Environment in Post-Soviet Georgia: Reverses and Paradoxes, in: The Caucasus and Globalization, Vol. 3 (2009), No. 1.
Nasritdinov, Emil: Regional Change in Kyrgyzstan: Bazaars, Cross-Border Trade and Social Networks, Lambert Academic Publishing, June 2009, ISBN-13: 978-3838300931, Paperback, pp. 176.
Paasiaro, Maija: Home-Grown Strategies for Greater Agency: Reassessing the Outcome of Civil Society Strengthening in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, in: Central Asian Survey, Vol. 28 (March 2009), No. 1, pp. 59–77.
Parks, Lisa: Signals and oil: Satellite footprints and post-communist territories in Central Asia, in: European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 12 (May 2009), pp. 137–156.
Polonsky, Jonny: Equity in community health insurance schemes: Evidence and lessons from Armenia, in: Health Policy and Planning, Vol. 24 (May 2009), No. 3, pp. 209–216.
Pomfret, Richard: Using Energy Resources to Diversify the Economy: Agricultural Price Distortions in Kazakhstan, in: Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 51 (June 2009 ), No. 2, pp 181–212.
Radnitz, Scott et al.: The Origins of Social Capital: Evidence From a Survey of Post-Soviet Central Asia, in: Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 42 (June 2009), pp. 707–732.
Reshiev, Sulaiman: Forming an Effective Mechanism of Sociopolitical Stability in the Northern Caucasus, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Roberts, Ken et al.: Young adults' family and housing life-stage transitions during post-communist transition in the South Caucasus, in: Journal of Youth Studies, Vol. 12 (April 2009), No. 2, pp. 151–166.
Scrimin, Sara et al.: Attention and Memory in School-Age Children Surviving the Terrorist Attack in Beslan, Russia, in: Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, Vol. 38 (May 2009), No. 3, pp. 402–414.
Spechler, Martin C.: Human Rights in Central Eurasia: The Unexpected Sides of Economic Growth and Authoritarian Rule, in: Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 56 (March–April 2009), No. 3, pp. 3–16.
Spence, Martine: Internationalisation of entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan, in: International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, Vol. 3 (April 2009), No. 3, pp. 252–262.
Stan, Lavinia: Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Reckoning with the Communist Past, Taylor & Francis, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-415-77671-4, pp. 328.
van Atta, Don: "White Gold" or Fool's Gold? The Political Economy of Cotton in Tajikistan, in: Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 56 (March–April 2009), No. 3, pp. 17–35.
Werner, Cynthia: Bride abduction in post-Soviet Central Asia: Marking a shift towards patriarchy through local discourses of shame and tradition, in: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 15 (June 2009), No. 2, pp. 314–331.
Whitsel, Christopher M.: Family Resources, Sitting at Home and Democratic Choice: Investigating Determinants of Educational Attainment in Post-Soviet Tajikistan, in: Central Asian Survey, Vol. 28 (March 2009), No. 1, pp. 29–41.
Yovkochev, Shukhrat: The Modernization of Society and Transfer of Power in Muslim Countries, in: Central Asia and the Caucasus, (2009) No. 2 (56).
Ziemer, Ulrike: Narratives of Translocation, Dislocation and Location: Armenian Youth Cultural Identities in Southern Russia, in: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 61 (May 2009), No. 3, pp. 409–433.
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