... Caucasus Emirate, were eliminated
[6]
. In Azerbaijan, religious radicals have been split (in the southern part, they look up to Iran and Shiite Islam, while in the northern part – to Dagestan and the Salafi movement)
[7]
. Commenting on threats to the Georgian national security, Defense Minister Mrs. Tinatin Khidasheli said at the end of July 2015 that she did not expect the Islamic State to create any problems in Georgia
[8]
.
Experts also point out that the adherents of the specific, to put it mildly,...
Interview with Personal Representative of the Prime Minister of Georgia for Russia Zurab Abashidze
On July 30, 2015, Georgia officially joined the EU sanctions against Russia, citing the European Commission’s declaration on adopting restrictive measures in view of the situation in Crimea and Sevastopol. Two ...
Sociological services have noted an improvement in the attitudes of Russian people towards Georgia
It will not be long before mass surveys stop being a satisfactory tool for analysing the attitudes of Russian people towards Georgia. Indeed, the Russian media has lost interest in the country, especially against the background of the Ukrainian ...
... intelligence Bruce Jackson give an equally harsh assessment, to the effect that they were too accustomed to such countries as Poland and Latvia, integration with which was successful virtually overnight, and
exerted a tremendous pressure
on such countries as Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine to transform themselves just as fast.
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Russia and the EU – Looking for Ways of
Cooperation in the Common Neighbourhood: the
case of the Republic of Moldova and
Transdniestria
Perhaps it is worth determining ...
... Caucasus countries have not yet accumulated sufficient experience in conducting their own “festive and commemorative” policies. Before they became independent countries as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia shared symbols and festive dates with all the other republics (the majority of these dates were associated with the establishment of the Soviet power there). The experience of national statehood after the disintegration of the Russian Empire was ...
On May 5, 2015, the Georgian city of Kobuleti hosted the “Russia–Georgia: Issues of Regional Security in Light of Russia’s Neighbourhood Policy” conference as part of the Istanbul Process. The event was organized by the Georgian International Center ...
... Editor-in-Chief of the International Trends journal
Reflections in the footsteps of Victoria Nuland’s Transcaucasia tour
For several days now, the Russian media has been abuzz over what one journalist dubbed the “explosive” tour of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia taken by Victoria Nuland, whom it has referred to as assistant to the U.S. Secretary of State, but who is actually the assistant to the Under Secretary of State. Interest in Nuland is being fueled by a distorted assessment of her ...
Russian–Georgian relations
When I was preparing these notes about Russian–Georgian relations and trying to think of a title, I thought to myself: “Where would I put the punctuation mark in this sentence?” We have already seen war, back in ...
On January 20-23, 2014, Istanbul hosted a regular expert meeting within the project "Assistance to Russia-Georgia Dialogue" implemented by RIAC and Georgian International Center for Conflicts and Negotiations (
ICCN
) with support of the Swiss government.
The Russian side was represented by RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev, Professor Sergey Markedonov ...
... project (this aspiration is definitely there, however contradictory and naïve it may seem). As to South Ossetia, it has expressed the desire to unite with North Ossetia under a Russian aegis from the very beginning of the movement of secession from Georgia in the late 1980s-early 1990s. Two referendums were held on this issue, in 1992, when the conflict was still in an acute phase, and in 2006, i.e. two years before the events of August 2008 and Russia's recognition of South Ossetia.
Sergey Markedonov
...
