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Oil pipeline completed: a sign of rising great power rivalry in Central Asia
By Peter Symonds, May 31, 2005
Last week’s ceremony in the Central Asian republic of Azerbaijan to open the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline received scant coverage in the international press. Nevertheless the completion of t...
Bush visit to Georgia increases tensions with Putin government
By Simon Whelan, May 18, 2005
Speaking in Tbilisi on May 10, President George W. Bush quipped that he was in the neighbourhood and “thought we’d swing by.” However, his visit to the capital of Georgia was anythin...
More than 500 killed, thousands wounded
Uzbekistan: US “war on terror” yields a bloodbath
By Bill Van Auken, May 16, 2005
The Bush administration’s “global war on terrorism” has recorded one of its bloodiest victories yet with the slaughter of several hundred men, women and children in the Uzbekistan ci...
Uzbekistan: US-backed dictator drowns uprising in blood
By Bill Van Auken, May 14, 2005
Local hospitals reported that dozens of people were shot to death and scores more wounded by Uzbekistan government forces in the eastern city of Andijan Friday after protesters stormed government offi...
Victory Day celebration in Russia reveals deepening political and social tensions
By Andrea Peters, May 11, 2005
While Russia’s President Vladimir Putin had intended the 60th anniversary of the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany as an occasion to boost Russia’s standing in world affairs, the day’s e...
On the 60th Anniversary of the victory of the Red Army over Nazism
Anti-Russian nationalism in the Baltic States
Part two
By Niall Green, May 10, 2005
This is the concluding part of a two-part series. Part one was posted May 9.
On the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army over Nazism
Anti-Russian nationalism in the Baltic States
Part one
By Niall Green, May 9, 2005
This is the first part of a two-part series.
US money and personnel behind Kyrgyzstan’s “Tulip Revolution”
By Andrea Peters, March 28, 2005
The interim government established in Kyrgyzstan in the aftermath of the overthrow of the regime of President Askar Akayev is largely the product of US intervention (See: “Kyrgyz president force...
Kyrgyz president forced to flee as opposition seizes power
By Andrea Peters, March 28, 2005
On March 24, rioting protesters forced Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev to flee the small Central Asian republic over which he has presided for 15 years. In the wake of his departure, a loose coalition o...
Ukrainian President Yushchenko presses for closer ties with European Union
By Patrick Richter, March 24, 2005
New Ukrainian president Victor Yushchenko visited Berlin two weeks ago, under conditions in which the foreign policy of the German government of Gerhard Schröder, with its orientation towards Russia,...
Wealth and poverty in modern Russia
By Vladimir Volkov and Julia Denenberg, March 11, 2005
Since the beginning of the year, protests have been under way, primarily by pensioners, against the transformation of social benefits into substantially smaller cash payments. (See: “Russia: wav...
Two mysterious deaths in Georgia’s “Rose Revolution” regime
By Patrick Richter, February 16, 2005
On the night of February 3, 41-year-old Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania was found dead at the home of a friend and fellow party member, 25-year-old Raul Yusupov. Apparently, he had indicated he ...
