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UKRAINIAN OFFICIALS INCREASINGLY DENOUNCE OPPOSITION AS “EXTREMISTS” AND “TERRORISTS”
On the third anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych remains convinced that his country should take an active role in combating terrorism (UNIAN, September 11). However, Yanukovych's call to combat "terrorism" has a different domestic meaning, as Ukrainian leaders equate... MORE
KAZAKHSTAN TIGHTENS BORDER CONTROL
As part of their efforts to increase security in the aftermath of the recent wave of terrorist attacks in Russia, Kazakhstan's law enforcement and border authorities have cracked down on immigration from neighboring countries. The new measures may primarily affect day laborers who cross Kazakhstan's... MORE
TWO PRESIDENTS DEPEND ON AFGHANISTAN BALLOT
The October 9 poll to elect a new president in Afghanistan holds no surprises. Most foreign observers and Afghans perceive the election campaign as a farce, and that if the Bush administration wants to continue interim President Hamid Karzai in his present post for another... MORE
AUSHEV AND OTHERS WARN OF POSSIBLE OSSETIAN-INGUSH CONFLICT
Leading politicians and other observers have issued fresh warnings that tensions between Ossetians and Ingush, exacerbated by the September 1 school siege in Beslan, could soon explode into violence. Ingushetia's former president, Ruslan Aushev, whose early mediation efforts with the Beslan hostage-takers, who reportedly included... MORE
UKRAINIAN ELECTION: KREMLIN AGITPROP AT WORK
With Ukraine's presidential poll just a month away, the Kremlin propaganda machine is working at full speed. As one group of Moscow spin doctors accuse the West of interfering in Ukraine's domestic affairs, the others are aggressively peddling their vision of "European integration," where Ukraine... MORE
ABKHAZIA’S PRESIDENTIAL RACE ENTERS FINAL LAP
On October 3, voters in Abkhazia will choose a successor to their ailing president. Vladislav Ardzinba led the region in its fight for independence from Georgia in 1992 and 1993 before becoming president of the self-declared republic in 1994. The new president of Abkhazia will... MORE
COMMENTARY: CLEAN BREAK OVERDUE IN SOUTH OSSETIA
Georgia has proposed an OSCE-hosted international conference that would institute genuine peacekeeping and negotiating mechanisms regarding South Ossetia. The process, once launched, would ultimately work out a definitive political solution to the South Ossetia conflict. OSCE's Chairman-in-Office, Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Solomon Passy, has... MORE
MOSCOW CONVENIENTLY FORGETS CHECHNYA
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was certainly in his element at the UN General Assembly last week, packing a full schedule of meetings and delivering a hard-hitting speech. Admittedly, he had little to say about the humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur, the deepening gap between rich... MORE
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