Liz Fuller writes the Caucasus Report blog for RFE/RL.
Azerbaijani voters will elect a president on October 15, 2008. The last election was deemed neither free nor fair and it seems the next poll will be no better.
May 12 is the 10th anniversary of a peace agreement between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Chechen leader Aslan Maskhadov that was supposed to bring peace to the North Caucasus.
Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian speaking at a pre-election rally in Yerevan (AFP) May 10, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Many observers suspect that the outcome of the May 12 parliamentary elections in Armenia may be tailored to ensure a victory for Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian's Republican Party of Armenia (HHK).
President Ilham Aliyev (RFE/RL) May 7, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Speaking on May 4 at the ceremonial inauguration of a new settlement near Baku for displaced persons who fled their homes during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev claimed that Armenia has made key concessions regarding how that conflict is to be resolved.
Eldar Namazov (file photo) (RFE/RL) April 27, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Opposition politician Eldar Namazov, who resigned in October 1999 as an adviser to Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev, published a three-part article in February-March 2007 in successive issues of the opposition weekly "Realny Azerbaijan" focusing on the relative strength of regional political groupings in Azerbaijan and the role they have played in national politics both before and since independence.
Though Moscow has threatened to suspend adherence to the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty before, some think Putin's message is aimed at the Caucasus.
President Arkady Ghukasian has endorsed the head of the region's National Security Service (file photo) (epa) April 26, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Two candidates have announced their intention to participate in the July 19 presidential elections in the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, and at least one more is expected to do so.
Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian might hold the key to the election (ITAR-TASS) APRIL 19, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Violence, harassment, recriminations, and international concern over perceived voter apathy have marred the first 10 days of campaigning for Armenia's May 12 parliamentary elections.
(RFE/RL) April 13, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Following his lavish inauguration as Chechen Republic head on April 5, Ramzan Kadyrov has moved to strengthen even further his control over the Chechen government, naming one close relative as prime minister and promoting to the post of first deputy prime minister a second relative, Adam Delimkhanov, hitherto deputy prime minister responsible for security and law and order.
Tbilisi's latest proposal to resolve the conflict with its breakaway Abkhazia region is likely to be less palatable to the Abkhaz than previous offers.
Dmitry Sanakoyev, shown greeting his constituents, fits into Georgia's plans for South Ossetia (file photo) (InterPressNews) March 29, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The Georgian leadership has announced at least three successive proposals since September 2004 for resolving its conflict with the breakaway unrecognized republic of South Ossetia. All have been rejected.
Official Russian estimates of the size of the Chechen resistance vary considerably. But resistance leaders say they don't lack for recruits.
(RFE/RL) March 22, 2007 (RFE/RL) --NATO's special representative for the South Caucasus and Central Asia recently noted that while Azerbaijan cooperates closely with the alliance, its intentions remain unclear.
The power struggle for control of the opposition Democratic Party of Azerbaijan (DPA) appears to be approaching the final stage.
March 7, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- In some respects, the Armenian parliamentary election scheduled for May 12 may prove to be very similar to the 2003 vote that returned to power the incumbent three-party coalition headed by Prime Minister Markarian's Republican Party of Armenia (HHK).
Opposition candidates accused Abkhazia's president of interfering in the election process in the run-up to the March 4 parliamentary elections in the breakaway republic.
February 16, 2007 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted Alu Alkhanov's resignation from the post of Chechen administration head to which he was elected in August 2004.
(RFE/RL) PRAGUE, February 9, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Unconfirmed reports that the Federal Border Service of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has decided to replace Ingush border guards along Ingushetia's borders has triggered a storm of protest.
Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov (file photo) (ITAR-TASS) February 1, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- The Chechen police, until recently regarded as beyond criticism thanks to their links to Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, have recently been accused of incompetence and implicated in the October 2006 killing of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Georgian border guards in the Kodori Gorge (file photo) (RFE/RL) January 31, 2007 -- In May 2006, the governments of Georgia and the breakaway unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia seemed on the verge of new talks that could eventually lead to progress in neutralizing the legacy of the 1992-1993 war.
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