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THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN OFFICER CORPS |
09 Mar 2010 |
ROGER N MCDERMOTT Senior Fellow in Eurasian Military Studies, Jamestown Foundation, Washington DC and an Honorary Senior Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, University Kent, Canterbury (UK)As a consequence of Defense Minister Anatoliy Serdyukov’s military reform, the Russian officer corps is arguably enduring the most fundamental changes and challenges that it has faced in the past two centuries. |
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN TAJIKISTAN |
05 Mar 2010 |
ANDREY GROZIN Head of the Central Asia and Kazakhstan Studies Department, Institute of the CIS Countries, MoscowIt was clear even before the elections that the Tajikistani authorities could not achieve their main object from those elections – to improve Tajikistan’s image on the international scene. |
TAJIKISTAN - UZBEKISTAN RELATIONS |
17 Feb 2010 |
DENIS KIM Expert of the Eurasia Heritage Foundation, MoscowThe problems in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan relations could be solved if the sides were ready to make a compromise with each other. If Emomalii Rahmon and Islom Karimov made any concessions to each other, it would ease tension between the neighbouring countries. |
WILL THE SELF-STYLED SAVIORS BE REALLY ABLE TO RESCUE THE NATION? |
09 Feb 2010 |
OLEKSANDR GAVRYLYUK Political commentator, KyivBoth Tymoshenko and Yanukovych are backed by almighty oligarchic clans, whose interests they are supposed to meet. So will the new president be willing and able to break out the preset paradigm and finally initiate the long-awaited reforms, which would inevitably come into conflict with the oligarchic interests? |
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IN FOCUS OF THE RUSSIAN PRESS |
15 Mar 2010 |
Gazeta.ru, Kommersant, Gazeta, RBC Daily: Russian society rises from slumber; Dipkuryer supplement to Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Iranian bomb overshadows Middle East; Kommersant: Russian invasion scare sweeps Georgia after TV hoax; Vedomosti: Failing memory of Russian prime minister. |
CRRC: INSIGHT TO GEORGIAN HOUSEHOLDS |
24 Feb 2010 |
Unsurprisingly, the majority of the population either spends their whole income on food and utilities, or has to borrow for food quite regularly. |
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