Analytics

January 10, 2011 23:00

• At least 178 persons perished in explosions and terror acts committed in Northern Caucasus and Moscow

  The loss of 178 people and injuries obtained by at least 895 persons more in 238 explosions and terror acts committed in 2010 in the territory of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and in Moscow are most tragic outcomes of the glowing Northern Caucasus conflict.

July 15, 2010 16:00

• Frank Judd: "Situation in Chechnya affects not only locals, but the global community as a whole"

  Russian authorities have managed to isolate the Chechen Republic from western journalists and almost completely block the flow of independent information from the region. However, the commitment to act most cruelly and violently in Chechnya is in fact an evidence of Moscow's weakness; while the best way out is in improvement of social and economic life in Chechnya and launching the negotiation process. This was told in the interview to the "Caucasian Knot" by Lord Frank Judd, participant of the inter-party parliamentary group for defence of human rights of the British Parliament, former PACE's Rapporteur for Chechnya, who paid a visit to the republic as the head of the British parliamentary delegation on February 15-18, 2010.

May 03, 2010 09:00

• Interview with Tom de Waal "I look optimistically at the problem of normalizing Armenian-Turkish relations, since societies change and people become more open for possible changes"

  Thomas de Waal, British journalist and writer, former editor of the Caucasus department of the British Institute for War and Peace Reporting, co-founder of the non-government organization GO Group, one of the best-known Western experts on the Caucasus. In an interview to the "Caucasian Knot" he commented on the situation around the ratification of Armenian-Turkish protocols, on the prospects of settling the Nagorno-Karabakh problem and the relations between Azerbaijan and Iran.

April 27, 2010 10:00

• Interview with Ethan Zuckerman (Berkman Center for Internet and Society)

September 29, 2009 23:00

• FIDH President Souyer Belassen: "It is impossible to work in Chechnya because it is Russia"

  On 25 September, the president of the International Federation for Human Rights (IFHR) Souyer Belassen attended the Moscow court sitting that was considering a suit of the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov against the chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Center Oleg Orlov. After the sitting, the human rights activist gave her vision of this legal process and the overall situation with human rights in the Russian Federation.

July 17, 2009 14:00

• Natalia Estemirova's Last Interview to Caucasian Knot

July 08, 2009 14:00

• National Reconciliation in South Ossetia

  The Commission of National Reconciliation in South Ossetia could become a vital tool for reducing tensions and finding lasting political solutions in the region, argues journalist and analyst Valeriy Dzutsev.

July 07, 2009 21:00

• Remarks by Barak Obama at the New Economic School Graduation

  Remarks by the President of the USA Barak Obama at the New Economic School Graduation, Moscow, July 7, 2009.

June 26, 2009 01:00

• Strategic Conflict Assessment (SCA) North Caucasus

  This SCA study contains an assessment of the current conflict and cooperation dynamics in the North Caucasus with a focus on developments in the region that have taken place since the previous Strategic Reconstruction and Development Assessment (SRDA) study conducted in 2005 and updated in 2006.

June 22, 2009 15:04

• Statement against Political Persecutions in Georgia

  The South Caucasus Network of Human Rights Defenders is extremely concerned about the arrests of activists of Georgian opposition political parties and violence used against them. These events have been continuing during last two months, starting from the kick off of the public demonstrations on 9 April 2009 and escalating recently.

June 17, 2009 11:47

• Urgent Appeal Against the Amendments to the NGO Law of Azerbaijan

  The South Caucasus Network of Human Rights Defenders is alarmed about the draft amendments to the Law of Republic of Azerbaijan "On Non-governmental organizations (public associations and foundations)" that are due to be discussed on 19 June by the Parliament of Azerbaijan. Should these amendments be adopted as they stand, they would severely curtail freedom of association in contradiction with the Constitution of Azerbaijan, international obligations undertaken by the country, in particular obligations steaming from the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the commitments under European Union Eastern Partnership, Council of Europe and OSCE.

March 09, 2009 21:00

• Levon Barsegyan (head of Journalists' Press Club "Asparez"): GALA TV Company is working, Armenian authorities slacken pressure on media

  About a year ago in Armenia, the GALA TV Company, non-controlled by the authorities and based in the city of Gyumri, the second largest city of Armenia, managed to escape closing. Great efforts to this end were made by the Journalists' Press Club named "Asparez". Levon Barsegyan, President of this Gyumri-based Club, shared his views with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about today's situation in Armenian media and characterized the country's internal political processes.

October 24, 2008 13:30

• Georgia-Russia conflict: Ethnic Cleansing Continues in South Ossetian Conflict Zone in Georgia

  Statement of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee.

August 28, 2008 18:39

• Blogger "failures" in the Georgian war, and the rise of citizen propaganda

August 21, 2008 17:35

• Russian bloggers go after YouTube

  While the real war between Russia and Georgia may be over, the Internet war lingers on, with virtual battalions continuing to fight on sites like YouTube.

August 18, 2008 17:45

• Citizen war-reporter? The Caucasus test

  The Georgia-Russia war has exposed some of the flaws in the idea of citizen journalism, says Evgeny Morozov.

August 16, 2008 17:43

• Misunderstanding cyberwar
  1

August 13, 2008 15:34

• The Kremlin's Virtual Army

  Shadowy hackers in Moscow and St. Petersburg? Old news. Get ready for the next generation of Russian cyberwarriors

May 23, 2008 21:36

• Extraordinary Parliamentary Elections in the Republic of Georgia

  Report from election observation 20 and 21 May 2008

May 07, 2008 19:34

• Aidan White (General Secretary of the International Federation of Journalists): "Journalists should walk off any close relations with the authorities"
  1