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Analyses | | Marek Matusiak

Tajikistan In Badakhshan the government fights with former field commanders

  On 24 July, Tajik power structures began special operations in the Gorno – Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) directed against local criminal groups linked to former field commanders from the civil war period (1992-1997), some of which…
OSW Commentary | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz

Southern Gas Corridor managed by Azerbaijan and Turkey

The Southern Gas Corridor is a European Commission initiative with the aim of facilitating the diversification of the routes and sources of gas imported into Europe in the hope of reducing the EU’s dependence on Russia. Although the…
Point of View | | Marek Matusiak

Georgian dilemmas Between a strong state and democracy

Since its 'Rose Revolution' of 2003, Georgia has become the most spectacular example in the CIS of the export of a Western economic policy model: an example of success in building up efficient state structures, a state which was not broken…
Analyses | | Marek Matusiak

The new government in Georgia

On 4 July, the Georgian Parliament, dominated by the president’s United National Movement party, passed a vote of confidence in the new cabinet under the former the head of the Interior Ministry, Vano Merabishvili. Most of the ministers…
Analyses | | Marek Matusiak

Uzbekistan withdraws from the CSTO once again

On 20 June, Uzbekistan sent a note to the secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), informing them that it was suspending its membership of this body. This is the second time in the history of Uzbekistan’s…