Onnik Krikorian · September, 2008

Latest posts by Onnik Krikorian from September, 2008

Caucasus: More Journalists Attacked, Killed

  4 September 2008

Following the death in police custody of a prominent critic of the authorities in Ingushetia, Terror News Briefs says that a rare anti-government rally held to protest the death of yet another journalist in the Russian Federation is sign of increased volatility in the Caucasus. Meanwhile, The Other Russia comments...

Georgia: IDPs — Lessons Learned

  3 September 2008

Following last month's military conflict with Russia, Social Science in the Caucasus examines the issues surrounding Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Georgia. The blog examines the lessons learned from past conflicts in the country in the hope that mistakes can be avoided when international donor money comes flooding in.

Armenia: Nagorno Karabakh Independence Marked, Anti-Turkish Protests Planned

  3 September 2008

While the international media concerns itself with the two breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia, bloggers reminds their readers that yesterday marked the 17th anniversary of the declaration of independence by another self-declared republic in the South Caucasus — Nagorno Karabakh. Marking the occasion in Yerevan also gave one political party the opportunity to declare its intention to stage street protests when the Turkish president arrives in Armenia this weekend.

Georgia: Information War

  2 September 2008

A Second Hand Conjecture comments on the information war currently being waged between Russia and Georgia after the recent conflict over South Ossetia. The blog notes that one site established to put forward the Georgian case online utilizes slick marketing skills absent from the Russian side.

Russia: Kremlin Critic Shot Dead

  1 September 2008

Red Menace comments on news that a vocal critic of the Kremlin and local administration in Ingushetia has died from a gunshot wound to the head sustatined while in police custody. If his death was an accident, the blog asks somewhat rhetorically, why was web site owner Magomed Yevloyev's body...

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