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INTERNAL DIVISIONS MAY DEFEAT YUSHCHENKO’S WTO ASPIRATIONS
The Ukrainian parliament went into summer vacation this week after adopting only six of the 14 legislative acts needed for possible WTO membership. Two related laws were adopted earlier. The government had wanted parliament to consider all 14 laws as a package, but parliament refused.... MORE
BAKIYEV WINS PRESIDENCY IN ONE ROUND — HOW LONG WILL THE HONEYMOON LAST?
With roughly 90% of the vote, Kurmanbek Bakiyev won Kyrgyzstan's July 10 presidential elections in the first round. Bakiyev had served as acting president since the March 25 Tulip Revolution. He was able to unite many former opposition figures, among them Azimbek Beknazarov, Daniyar Usenov,... MORE
IRANIAN NUCLEAR TEAM IN MOSCOW, SEEKING NEW PARTNERSHIPS
Senior Iranian officials have indicated that Russia could become a partner in lucrative projects to build 20 nuclear power stations in Iran. "A plan has been approved in parliament obliging the government to study the possibility of building 20 nuclear power stations. Many countries, including... MORE
RUSSIA REAPPRAISES MILITARY “AWARENESS” OF TERRORISM
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov has expressed confidence in the growing awareness of the Russian military, not only about the nature of the terrorist threat it faces, but on the need to implement practical security measures to improve the safety of security personnel. That is... MORE
GEORGIA UNVEILS INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO SOUTH OSSETIA CONFLICT RESOLUTION
At a conference in Batumi on July 10, President Mikheil Saakashvili and the government of Georgia along with Georgian NGOs unveiled a blueprint for the stage-by-stage resolution of the conflict in South Ossetia. Foreign envoys accredited in Tbilisi, American and European experts, Georgian government officials,... MORE
OSCE PARLIAMENTARY RESOLUTION SETS STAGE FOR RECOGNITION OF TRANSNISTRIA
On July 8, Moldova's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a protest against the content of the Moldova resolution, adopted at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly's (OSCE PA) annual session on July 5 in Washington, and against the procedural maneuvers that were used to push the resolution... MORE
PUTIN’S AGENDA PREVAILS AT THE G-8 SUMMIT: IT IS TERRORISM, COMRADES!
From Moscow's point of view, the content of this year's G-8 summit was supposed to be totally unexciting, if not completely irrelevant. Aid to Africa is of no interest for the Russian political class and is seriously unpopular with society; even at Gleneagles, the Scottish... MORE
GEORGIAN OPPOSITION, SAAKASHVILI GOVERNMENT COME TO BLOWS
For the first time since the November 2003 Rose Revolution, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's government has faced a large-scale, violent anti-governmental rally involving major opposition parties. The protest erupted June 30 on Tbilisi's central avenue after a court sentenced two popular wrestlers, Alexei Davitashvili, president... MORE
WILL NAZARBAYEV SACRIFICE HIS GOVERNMENT TO SECURE HIS RE-ELECTION?
Rumors of the impending dismissal of Kazakhstan's current government, headed by Prime Minister Daniyal Akhmetov, have circulated since September 2004, when President Nursultan Nazarbayev criticized the government for distorting administrative reform efforts and inflating the ungainly administrative machine up to 16 ministries and a dozen... MORE
U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE AT RISK IN CENTRAL ASIA
With Moscow in the lead, the Russo-Chinese tandem has advanced from a containment policy to a rollback policy toward the United States in Central Asia. Moscow and Beijing have used the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's (SCO) July 5 summit in Kazakhstan to challenge the rationale for... MORE