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Abkhazia and South Ossetia, a year on

The Georgia-Russia war of August 2008 has altered calculations about the future of the two territories that were central to the conflict. The scholar of Abkhazian linguistics and history, George Hewitt, offers an assessment from Sukhum. A little ...

From OPENDEMOCRACY, AgoraVox,  12 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Mikheil Saakashvili,  Eduard Shevardnadze,  NATO,  BBC,  John Major

China-Turkey and Xinjiang: a frayed relationship

The violent unrest in China’s western region has cast a chill over the previously warming links between Ankara and Beijing. The deeper roots of their dispute lie both in history and modern geopolitics. By Igor Torbakov & Matti Nojonen. The violent ...

From OPENDEMOCRACY, AgoraVox,  4 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Hu Jintao,  Recep Tayyip Erdogan,  Abdullah Gul,  United Nations,  Dalai Lama

Legal Nihilism in Russia

In May 2008 the newly-elected President Medvedev, himself a lawyer, promised legal reform in Russia, but there are few signs of it as yet. By Bill Bowring. It is notorious that "telephone justice" was the norm in the Soviet Union. Judges, except at ...

From OPENDEMOCRACY, AgoraVox,  8 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Vladimir Putin

Voices from Iran

Iranians abroad are using every means available to follow events in their homeland and stand alongside their compatriots. One of them, Kamin Mohammadi, reports. If my experience is any guide, Iranians outside Iran are living some of the most intense ...

From OPENDEMOCRACY, AgoraVox,  24 Jun 2009

What Obama must say (and do) in Egypt

The United States president’s visit to Cairo needs to offer the Arab and Muslim worlds an America they can at last believe. By Nader Hashemi. President Barack Obama will deliver a long-awaited speech on relations between the United States and the ...

From OPENDEMOCRACY, AgoraVox,  4 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  American University,  Hosni Mubarak

[analysis] Battling Murder in Venezuela's Participatory Republic

Increasingly, the Left's response to representative institutional frameworks - "participatory democracy" - demands a further empowerment of the people, the antidote to an at times suffocating conglomeration of modern elites. This suffocation gave birth ...

From GEORGE GABRIEL - OPENDEMOCRACY.NET, Venezuela Analysis,  31 May 2009

Global poverty: the human-rights dimension

The problems of the world’s poor are at their heart an issue of human rights. This sets a test for the world’s powerful. By Kate Allen of Amnesty International. The worldwide economic recession is working its way through every level of the global ...

From OPENDEMOCRACY, AgoraVox,  29 May 2009
Related Topics: Kate Allen,  World Bank,  United Nations

India: the promise of stability

The ruling Congress party returns to power with an unambiguous mandate, a privilege it should not squander. By Kanishk Tharoor. Five years ago, Indian voters comprehensively shredded the predictions of their country’s chattering class, toppling the ...

From OPENDEMOCRACY, AgoraVox,  20 May 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Bharatiya Janata Party,  Manmohan Singh,  Mayawati,  Lalu Prasad Yadav

The plague spin of New Orleans

The epidemic of “swine flu” has a special resonance in a city of ghosts whose history warns - and inoculates against - the present. By Jim Gabour. Here it is, Influenza A, H1N1, swine flu, whatever you want to call it. It’s an old and ...

From OPENDEMOCRACY, AgoraVox,  7 May 2009
Related Topics: Jack Palance,  Richard Widmark,  Elia Kazan,  Zero Mostel

South Africans have voted. What did they say?

ANC supporters turned out in their masses to re-elect the party, with an estimated 12 million people voting for the party this time round, two million more then last time.One reason for this substantial growth is the ANC’s determination to trounce a ...

From OPENDEMOCRACY, AgoraVox,  27 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Jacob Zuma,  Zulu (musician),  Thabo Mbeki

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