Archivo etiqueta «Ex Repúblicas Soviéticas»
By Simon Tisdall (THE GUARDIAN, 16/03/06):
For a man apparently assured of victory, Alexander Lukashenko is going to unusual lengths to ensure the “right” result in Sunday’s presidential election in Belarus. His anticipated triumph may mark a glum turning point for pro-democracy movements in the former Soviet sphere.In recent days dozens of Belarus opposition activists have been arrested, European poll monitors and parliamentarians have been turned back, and independent newspapers have been denied newsprint by Russian suppliers. The pro-Moscow Minsk government has also accused the west, and Poland in particular, of seeking its overthrow.
Mr Lukashenko, first elected president in … Seguir leyendo
By Ana Palacio and Daniel Twining, the former foreign minister of Spain and an Oxford-based consultant to the German Marshall Fund of the United States, respectively. (THE WASHINGTON POST, 11/03/06):
Since 2003, democratic revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia have dealt strategic blows to the ambition of Russia’s leaders to reconstitute the former Soviet empire by retaining political and military suzerainty over their weaker neighbors. But Russia’s imperial pretensions along its periphery linger.
Calls from the elected presidents of Georgia and Ukraine for a united Europe stretching “from the Atlantic to the Caspian” should embolden Europe and the United States … Seguir leyendo
Europe Briefing N°38 (CRISIS GROUP, 19/04/05):
OVERVIEW
President Mikheil Saakashvili’s announcement of a peace initiative in January 2005 was a positive step towards the peaceful resolution of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict.[1] The measures proposed go in the right direction and match many Crisis Group recommendations[2] but little has actually been done. Without immediate and visible steps to back up President Saakashvili’s words — beginning by seriously addressing the refugee and displaced persons issue in order to build some mutual confidence before plunging directly into status questions — there is a real danger that Georgia and South Ossetia could blunder into … Seguir leyendo
La crisis de Ucrania: ¿hacia una nueva guerra fría? La autora sostiene que por primera vez tras la caída del muro de Berlín los intereses de Rusia y de Occidente se describen como claramente opuestos. Alga Novikova es investigadora del Centro de Estudios Rusos de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (EL PAIS, 10/12/04).
La difícil vecindad entre Rusia y Georgia. Félix Stanevsky fue embajador de Rusia en Georgia (LA NACION, 06/01/04).