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Analyses | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz, Marek Matusiak

Ivanishvili goes to Azerbaijan – a visit overshadowed by misunderstandings

The new head of the Georgian government, Bidzina Ivanishvili, visited the capital city of Azerbaijan, Baku on 26 December. This was his second foreign visit, after Brussels. What had originally been planned as a courtesy visit to become…
Analyses | | Józef Lang

Ethnic and border tension between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan

On 6 January, a major border incident took place on the frontier of Sokh, an Uzbek exclave in Kyrgyzstan. People from the Uzbek village of Hushar attacked a newly built Kyrgyz border watchtower and then entered Kyrgyz territory. As a…
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Russia and Georgia a resumption of talks with no prospect of a breakthrough

Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Grigory Karasin, and the Special Representative for Relations with Russia, Zurab Abashidze, met for talks on 14 December in Geneva. These have been the first direct official talks between representatives…
Analyses | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz

Kazakhstan is taking a hard line

On 20 November, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Kazakhstan lodged a motion in court seeking a ban on the organisations Alga!, Halyk Maidany and a number of mass media, including the TV stations K+ and Stan.tv, the newspapers Respublika…
Analyses | | Rafał Sadowski

Commissioner Fule wants prospective EU membership to be offered to Eastern European countries

Over the past few months, Stefan Fule, the European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, has expressed a positive approach in his statements to offering prospective EU membership to the countries located in the…
Analyses | | Marek Matusiak

Ivanishvili takes Georgia

The first meeting of the Parliament of Georgia took place at its new site in Kutaisi on 21 October. A clear majority of seats, 85 out of 150, are held by the Georgian Dream coalition (GD) centred around the billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili…
Analyses | | Józef Lang

Kazakhstan is combating Islamic terrorism

On 15 October, Ermukhamet Ertysbayev, a political advisor to President Nursultan Nazarbayev, recommended an Anti-Terrorist Committee to be established in Kazakhstan. The comittee would be in charge of broadly defined fight against…
Analyses | | Marek Matusiak

Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili presents his government

On 8 October Bidzina Ivanishvili, the leader of Georgian Dream (GD), which won the parliamentary elections in Georgia, and who is also its candidate for prime minister, presented the partial composition of the future government.
Analyses | | Wojciech Górecki

Russia stronger in Tajikistan

Two agreements were concluded during the visit the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, made to Tajikistan on 4–5 October: one extending the term for the stationing of the Russian 201st military base in Tajikistan until 2042 and the other…
Analyses | | Krzysztof Strachota

The opposition has won the elections in Georgia

1 October saw parliamentary elections in Georgia, which were unexpectedly won by the opposition Georgian Dream (GD) coalition, centred around Bidzina Ivanishvili. The election results have not been challenged by any party, which indirectly…