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  • [In the aftermath of the Russian invasion] How to counter resurrected Russian expansionism by MEHMET KALYONCU* 20 Aug 2008 11:30 GMT
    ... making Russia's Western neighbors -- such as Belarus and Ukraine, both former Soviet republics -- more ... protect his country's territorial integrity. Running his election campaign on this fundamental discourse of ensuring ... credible leadership. According to Ahmet DavutoÄŸlu, the EU's France-Germany type of leadership is what was ...

  • Anatoliy Gritsenko: "The Biggest Threat to Ukraine is Us" 20 Aug 2008 04:42 GMT
    ... Moreover, he took it without informing NATO, EU partners, or the Ukrainian President. A head ... few words in support of Russia. Even Belarus expressed tight-lipped concern. The world shuddered at remembering ... Yushchenko won’t be able to fulfill his pre-election promise – to create a professional contract ...

  • Latvia, Lithuania hail release of Belarussian opposition leader 19 Aug 2008 16:15 GMT
    ... Lukashenko has been branded Europe's last dictator in Western ... regime and poor human rights record, and Belarus is subject to sanctions by the 27-nation ... protesting against alleged corruption in a 2006 election that returned President Alexander Lukashenko to power. ...

  • Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Welcomes Release of Belarusian Oppositionist Kozulin from Penal Colony 19 Aug 2008 06:14 GMT
    ... Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Welcomes Release of Belarusian Oppositionist Kozulin from Penal Colony Ukraine, Kiev, 19 ... and to get actively involved in the all-European processes,” the Ministry said. In March 2006, ... media and secure conduct of free parliament elections. ...

  • Deal cools Polish-Russian ties 18 Aug 2008 18:51 GMT
    ... like Germany to the west, and undemocratic Belarus and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad to the ... it is a member of both the EU and Nato, the Polish government believes only ... Moscow and Warsaw had improved following the election of the government led by Polish Prime ...

  • What Putin is doing in Georgia 18 Aug 2008 16:31 GMT
    ... President, Boris Yeltsin, and the leaders of Belarus and Ukraine dissolved the union formed by ... is run by a petty dictator, Aleksandr Lukashenko, who informed a German newspaper that “not ... that is bad enough. In the 2008 election, he made a joke of democratic procedure ...

  • EU CALLS FOR RELEASE OF ALL BELARUS POLITICAL PRISONERS 18 Aug 2008 12:06 GMT
    ... on Sunday welcomed the release of Kozulin, Belarus ' highest-profile political prisoner, saying This liberation ... a protest over alleged corruption in an election that returned President Alexander Lukashenko, was released Saturday. With EU and US ...

  • The EBRD to Stand by its Partner Banks in Georgia 18 Aug 2008 11:31 GMT
    ... spending the credit lines raised from the European Bank of Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) and ... EBRD's director for the Caucasus, Moldova and Belarus, said it was too soon to estimate the ... opposition protests led to an early presidential election, scared off investors some of whom might ...

  • Aleksandr Kozulin Is Released! 17 Aug 2008 18:30 GMT
    ... who has challenged the authoritarian "president" of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko in presidential elections of 2006, was released ... March 25, 2006. On July 12th, 2006 Minsk city court sentenced Aleksandr Kozulin to 5.5 ...

  • EU APPLAUDS BELARUS RELEASE OF OPPOSITION POLITICIAN 17 Aug 2008 15:14 GMT
    ... was anticipating other positive steps from the Belarusian authorities that could open the possibility of ... a protest over alleged corruption in an election which returned President Alexander Lukashenko, was released Saturday. With EU and US ...

  • Putin is all about controlling oil and gas 17 Aug 2008 07:22 GMT
    ... were imposed on Russia's neighbors: Ukraine, then Belarus, then Armenia, after all of them were threatened ... flow would mean massive gas deficits for Europe. Unlike other former Soviet states, Georgia refused ... a giant irritant for Russia. With the election in 2004 of the Western-oriented president, Mikheil ...

  • 01:04pm Jailed Belarussian leader freed 17 Aug 2008 02:31 GMT
    ... Jailed Belarussian opposition leader Alexander Kozulin, considered in the ... improving ties with Belarus and President Alexander Lukashenko, accused of crushing fundamental freedoms. "This morning ... to run against Lukashenko in a 2006 election and was jailed for 5 1/2 years ...

  • Jailed Belarussian leader freed 17 Aug 2008 02:31 GMT
    ... Jailed Belarussian opposition leader Alexander Kozulin, considered in the ... improving ties with Belarus and President Alexander Lukashenko, accused of crushing fundamental freedoms. "This morning ... to run against Lukashenko in a 2006 election and was jailed for 5 1/2 years ...

  • Former Belarus presidential candidate released from prison 17 Aug 2008 00:52 GMT
    ... Former Belarus presidential candidate released from prison Alexander Kozulin, ... candidate, had been pardoned by President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday. The president's office declined to comment, ... leading a protest against the heavily criticised election victory of Mr Lukashenko, dubbed by Washington ...

  • Belarus dissident leaves prison 16 Aug 2008 22:31 GMT
    ... The former Belarussian opposition leader Alexander Kozulin has left prison ... and is on his way home to Minsk, his daughter says, It is not clear ... 2006 for staging protests against President Alexander Lukashenko. Mr Lukashenko had defeated Mr Kozulin in ...


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