Archivo categoría «Cáucaso»
By Timothy Garton Ash, a contributing editor to Opinion, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and professor of European studies at Oxford University. His most recent book is Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 19/01/12):
On Monday, the French Senate is scheduled to debate and possibly vote on a bill that would criminalize denial of the Armenian genocide of 1915, along with any other events recognized as genocide in French law. The bill has passed the lower house of Parliament. The Senate should reject it, in the … Seguir leyendo
Par Bidzina Ivanishvili, homme d’affaire et philanthrope géorgien. Traduit de l’anglais par Delphine Colin (LE MONDE, 11/11/11):
Un homme d’affaires établi et sans aucune expérience en politique n’y fait pas ses débuts à la légère. J’ai fait le choix de créer un mouvement politique en Géorgie car je suis très inquiet de l’autoritarisme rampant du gouvernement du président Mikheïl Saakashvili. Sa manière de penser et son comportement modelés sur le principe de l’Etat c’est moi, déséquilibrent la Géorgie et amoindrissent la capacité de mon pays à se réformer avec succès.
Si la société ne se stabilise pas grâce … Seguir leyendo
By David L. Phillips, director of the Program on Peace-Building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights and a fellow at Harvard University’s Project on the Future of Diplomacy (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 02/09/11):
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili accuses Russia of staging violent attacks across the administrative boundary lines (ABLs) of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Despite a cease-fire agreement that ended the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, relations are tense – and getting worse. Renewed violence could risk the “reset” in U.S.-Russian relations, undermining cooperation that is critical to preventing proliferation by Iran and in … Seguir leyendo
By Alexander Cooley, Tow Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University and Lincoln Mitchell, an associate research scholar at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute. They are coauthors of After the August War: A New Strategy for U.S. Engagement with Georgia (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 01/09/11):
Last Friday, voters in the Georgian breakaway territory of Abkhazia went to the polls in a presidential election that was broadly ignored by the United States and its European allies.
There were no international observers, no stern warnings to Abkhaz leaders about the rule of law, no Western congratulations to the winner … Seguir leyendo
By Irakli Alasania, former U.N. ambassador for the Republic of Georgia who heads an opposition party, the Free Democrats (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 05/08/11):
The Republic of Georgia in the Caucasus is on the cusp of change. Beyond street protests, there is a deep polarization in society that bespeaks an unrest that will not be stopped until the government changes and democratic reforms finally are introduced.
I know this government and its shortcomings firsthand. I served for two years as its ambassador to the United Nations. I resigned in late 2008 because I disagreed with the erratic, unilateral decision-making … Seguir leyendo
By Ariel Cohen, senior research fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies and international energy policy at the Heritage Foundation (heritage.org) and Robert Nicholson, a member of the Young Leaders program at Heritage (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 29/07/11):
America has sacrificed a lot fighting the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan – but we are not alone. The United States and our NATO allies are getting help from places many Americans can’t find on the map.
Late on July 5, an Azerbaijani tanker plane crashed in Afghanistan en route to U.S.-NATO Bagram Air Base with a load of fuel. The United … Seguir leyendo
By Victor Erofeyev, a Russian writer and television host. Translated from the Russian by the International Herald Tribune (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 22/07/11):
The fate of Abkhazia has worried me ever since I first paid a visit here five years ago. A subtropical, citrus-scented paradise with snow-capped mountains, picturesque canyons and warm sea that can compete with the French Riviera, Abkhazia is also — politically speaking — an illegitimate child whose independence is not recognized by anyone except Russia.
Who in the world knows anything about Abkhazia? It can be compared to Kosovo, though perhaps more as an anti-Kosovo. … Seguir leyendo
By Sabine Freizer, Europe program director of the International Crisis Group (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 24/06/11):
The United States, the European Union and Russia don’t seem to agree on much these days. But in the volatile South Caucasus, they concur that Armenia and Azerbaijan need to sign an agreement on Friday if they are serious about finding a peaceful solution to the decades-old Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia has invited the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders to the city of Kazan on Friday and expects they will finally put their signatures on a “basic principles” text they have … Seguir leyendo
Por Andrey Piontkovsky, politólogo ruso y miembro visitante del Instituto Hudson en Washington DC (LA VANGUARDIA, 04/06/11):
Recientemente, las autoridades rusas comenzaron a hacer alarde de las masivas medidas de seguridad que se están poniendo en marcha cara a los JJ. OO. de Invierno del 2014 en el complejo de Sochi, en el mar Negro. Tienen buenos motivos para estar preocupados, y no sólo por la seguridad de los atletas y los espectadores.
La violencia en el norte del Cáucaso está dejando de ser un conflicto regional serio para convertirse cada vez más en una amenaza existencial para toda … Seguir leyendo
Por Andrei Piontkovsky, politólogo ruso y miembro visitante del Hudson Institute en Washington DC. (Project Syndicate, 31/05/11):
Las autoridades rusas recientemente comenzaron a hacer alarde de las masivas medidas de seguridad que se están implementando de cara a los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno de 2014 en el complejo de Sochi, en el Mar Negro. Tienen buenos motivos para estar preocupados, y no sólo por la seguridad de los atletas y los espectadores.
La violencia en el Norte del Cáucaso está dejando de ser un conflicto regional serio para convertirse cada vez más en una amenaza existencial para toda la … Seguir leyendo
By Xandra Kayden, a senior fellow at the School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 27/04/11):
There is something weird and rather disturbing about Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) – a U.S.-funded media outlet that is famous for broadcasting information during the Cold War to support our friends and undermine our enemies – attacking an ally over our mutual enemy, radical jihadism.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has claimed repeatedly that Azerbaijan is not at risk from the threat of spreading Iranian-backed radicalism and therefore, accuses it of human rights violations for considering … Seguir leyendo
By Charles King, a professor at Georgetown University and the author of Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams and Rajan Menon, a professor of political science at City College of New York/City University of New York and the author of The End of Alliance (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 06/02/11):
If current demographic trends continue, within the next half-century Muslims will constitute a sizable part, perhaps even a plurality, of Russia’s population; indeed, Moscow currently has more Muslim inhabitants than any other European city. And unlike those in Amsterdam or Paris, most of Moscow’s Muslims are citizens, … Seguir leyendo
By Peter Van Praagh, a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (THE WASHINGTON POST, 27/12/10):
Ten years ago this month, a young American civilian working for democracy in Azerbaijan was brutally murdered in the former Soviet republic’s capital. The stabbing of John Alvis raised little public attention. A decade later, his death remains a crime deemed unsolved by the FBI.
John Alvis, a 36-year-old from Texas, was the representative of the International Republican Institute in Baku. He worked closely with me, in my capacity as representative of the National Democratic Institute, to … Seguir leyendo
Par Guy Mettan, président romand des Joint Chambers of Commerce Suisse – Russie – Ukraine – Kazakhstan – Belarus – Kirghizistan – Moldavie (LE TEMPS, 17/12/10):
Enfin le bout du tunnel! A la suite de ce qui sera la négociation d’adhésion la plus longue de l’histoire, la Russie entrevoit enfin la lumière. Même Pascal Lamy, le directeur général de l’OMC, d’habitude très prudent sur ce dossier, a convenu dans un communiqué de presse que l’adhésion de la Russie à l’organisation devenait «un objectif possible» et qu’on avait assisté à une nette accélération du processus depuis six mois. Moscou a … Seguir leyendo
By Garin Hovannisian, the author of Family of Shadows: A Century of Murder, Memory, and the Armenian American Dream (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 21/09/10):
Across an ocean and a continent, on a sliver of land tucked between two seas, a little republic enters its 20th year of independence. I know a man there, an American by birth, who quit his law firm in Los Angeles around this time 20 years ago and decided he had no further business in the United States.
It was a romantic time. One by one the 15 Soviet satellite republics were breaking from the … Seguir leyendo