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YUSHCHENKO WANTS TO ERECT NEW BARRIER FOR RIVALS

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Preparations for next spring's parliamentary election have de facto started in Ukraine, as President Viktor Yushchenko came up with a proposal for raising the barrier that parties and blocs of parties will have to overcome to get into the legislature. This plan should further weaken... MORE

POURING OIL MONEY OVER STAGNATION AND DISCONTENT

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Hurricane Katrina forced the United States and the European Union to open their strategic oil reserves, but Moscow is confident that the dip in prices is only a minor deviation from the unstoppable upward trend. This conclusion was incorporated in a draft state budget for... MORE

BELARUS: THE LAST SUMMER OF THE OPPOSITION

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The apocalyptic phrase "last summer of the opposition" was the title of an article by Dmitry Drigailo, which prognosticated that after the 2006 presidential elections in Belarus, the political opposition would cease to exist. Either it will come to power or "it will be taken... MORE

OSSETIA RESISTS RETURN OF INGUSH REFUGEES

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One of the many difficult problems in the North Caucasus is the land dispute between North Ossetia and Ingushetia. Prigorodny district was incorporated into Ossetia after the deportation of the Ingush in 1944. When the Ingush were allowed to return to the Caucasus after Stalin's... MORE

BAGAPSH IN MOSCOW CONFIRMS GOAL OF SECESSION FROM GEORGIA

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On August 17 in Moscow, Abkhaz leader Sergei Bagapsh openly confirmed the political program of Abkhazia's secession from Georgia and de facto merger with Russia. Speaking at a specially organized, widely covered news conference, he outlined a set of legislative, economic, and military measures to... MORE

AZERBAIJANI AUTHORITIES DECIDE TO HOLD ELECTIONS IN KARABAKH

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Although the Azerbaijani constitution sets the number of national parliamentary seats at 125, the actual number of deputies in the Azerbaijani parliament has always been 124. The empty seat belonged to district 122, located in Khankendi (Stepanakert), the capital of Karabakh, which is currently under... MORE

ANTICLIMACTIC END TO KYRGYZ REVOLUTION

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Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's August 14 inauguration demonstrated that Western expectations and Russian fears of a democratic revolution in Kyrgyzstan were equally misplaced. By the same token, the inauguration and its immediate aftermath highlighted the daunting cultural distance to democracy that Kyrgyzstan (and some of... MORE