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Monday, December 2, 2013 - 07:56
The rub with this sort of training is that the GKNB, as the most capable units in post-Soviet security forces, tend to carry out both missions against serious external threats and also persecute legitimate domestic opposition.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 11:36
But claiming to have broken up plots keeps up the threat perception, while portraying Azerbaijan's security services as competent in protecting the population.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 11:32
Georgia's leaders, though, insist that integration with the West is one thing that will not change.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 07:32
Georgia ranks alongside Russia, the US and Iran as one of the countries with the highest estimated usage of opiods (drugs such as heroin and opium), according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 09:43
"To date, USFOR-A has not conducted a single air drop mission in Kyrgyzstan or Uzbekistan."
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 08:11
As for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, I have raised this question before at talks with Mr Putin, and I say again now that this is something we want.
Friday, November 22, 2013 - 09:13
Turkey has been invited to attend a Black Sea summit in Yerevan and Ankara is reportedly trying to resuscitate the failed international mediation campaign to end one of the region’s longest-running disputes
Friday, November 22, 2013 - 09:00
So it seems likely that Khairulloyev's dismissal has less to do with his performance than with an internal maneuvering by Rahmon to consolidate his position.
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 07:24
But the two-hour hair-pulling match that occurred on November 19 suggested that, even with the end of "cohabitation," the chances for grown-up political rivalry are as scant as ever.
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 07:12
If divisions exist between Islamic and secular civil society groups, Oshurahunova maintained, they are “the work of ambitious politicians, who use religion and religious groups for their own goals.”