Analytics

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
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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"
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February 27, 2008 16:28

• North Caucasus: Police raid offices of Independent Journalist

January 30, 2008 09:49

• Valery Dzutsev: Kosovo and duplex plan for peace settlement in Georgian-South Ossetian conflict

January 17, 2008 14:56

• Gordon N. Bardos (The Harriman Institute, USA): "In the issue of the right of nations to self-determination the international community resorts to double standard policy"

  On the threshold of unilateral declaration by Kosovo, former Serbian autonomy, of its independence from Serbia, the practice of international recognition of new self-determined territories, including those in the Caucasus, is becoming especially actual.

December 22, 2007 01:20

• Interview with David J.Kramer

November 29, 2007 20:49

• From the Conflict Zone

  Bulletin of Memorial Human Rights Center: Tangieva v. Russia