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Georgia, Russia say Caucasus talks constructive
Geneva :: Switzerland | 4 months ago
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Georgian and Russian officials held strained but constructive talks on Wednesday about ways to avoid more conflict in the volatile Caucasus region, international mediators said. Talks to prevent a repeat of last year's flare-up would continue despite...
Global Peace Rank - Balkans & Black Sea
The results of the Global Peace Index for 2009 suggest that the world has become slightly less peaceful in the past year, which appears to reflect the intensification of violent conflict in some countries and the effects of both the rapidly rising food...
Tags: Global Peace Index, Balkans, Caucasus, Black Sea region, BalanBlog, Ari rusila
Is it Time to Bury Nabucco?
Latest developments during last weeks related the EU’s policy of diversifying Europes’s energy supplies give a clear indication that EU’s pipedream – Nabucco – is vanishing while the rival Russia’s South Stream gets...
Tags: Gas, South Stream, Nord Stream, Nabucco, Balkans, Black Sea region, Caucasus, Middle-East, EU energy policy, BalkanBlog, Ari Rusila
EU’s big choice – Nabucco or South Stream?
Despite the efforts to save energy a strong scenario for near future is that the quantity of gas needed in EU region will remain same as today if not bigger. sources of gas are widely known the essential question is how the gas is arriving to European...
Tags: Balkans, Caucasus, Black Sea region, Iran, Russia, EU energy policy, gas, Nabucco, South Stream, Gazprom
Could EU lead the 3rd Way out from Confrontation?
This post was first published in TH!NK ABOUT IT site 25th February 2009. During last twenty years war for humanitarian reasons has came quite popular in political vocabulary e.g. in Balkans and now with Georgia case. The ideal to use power in the service...
Tags: CFSP, ESDP, U.S.Foreign policy, Balkans, Caucasus, Ari Rusila, BalkanBlog
Turkey establishes "Electronic Silk Road" between Caucasus-Europe
Tak :: Thailand | 8 months ago
Credibility Fiber optic cables from the Caucasus will pass through Turkey and reach Europe. Titled "Black Sea Interconnection (BSI)", the project will connect 45 universities and over 150,000 scholars from Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia with their European counterparts...
Tags: European Commission, Turkey, optic cables, fiber optic, Caucasus
Barack Hussein Obama and Russia
With huge expectations Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th President of USA, is now in the process of formulating his domestic and international policies and many countries in the World are now speculating the degree of their country’s relationship with...
Tags: Barack Hussein Obama, Russia, USA, NATO, Poland, ballistic missile, Caucasus, Medvedev, Georgia, World financial crisis, EU Commission, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan
Gas flows, everything ok, or...?
After three weeks dispute Russian gas is heating European homes. Talks ended agreement, it was even signed, bills are paid, prices fixed, EU monitors are checking implementation and everything seems to be ok next ten years. I would not like to be bird...
Tags: Caucasus, Ukraine, Russia, BalkanBlog, Ari Rusila, energy supply, gas
Russia concerned about Georgian border activities - Lavrov
Moscow :: Russia | 9 months ago
Credibility He stressed that the world problems nowadays cannot be settled through the use of force or illegal methods, adding that "there should be no room for national egoism." US relations The minister expressed hope for changes for the better in Russia–U.S. relations...
Tags: russia, medvedev, obama, gas, georgia, Russian-Ukrainian, Sergei Lavrov, U.S, caucasus, Moscow
The new tradition of non-negotiation
I am a bit worried about a trend at the beginning of year 2009 - a trend I hope will not dominate the rest of the year. The phenomena in my mind is the new tradition of non-negotiation. Crisis management and solving conflicts...
Tags: BalkanBlog, Ari Rusila, crisis management, Caucasus, Balkans, Middle East, negotiations
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