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Mosque Masjid al-Nabawi, Medina, Saudi Arabia. Source: Wikipedia.org

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Unfavorable conditions for democratization in Saudi Arabia

Elections into 178 regional assemblies took place in the year 2005 in Saudi Arabia between February 10 and April 21. Despite the fact that these elections were only communal and for various reasons non-democratic and illegitimate (e.g. half of the assembly is decreed by the government, women could not participate in the elections) their importance is multiplied by the fact that it was the first time…

Alexander Milinkevich

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Belarusians have divested of fear – The Candidate for President of Belarus Alexander Milinkevich

His ancestors participated in the uprising against the tzar regime in 1863. He lectured at universities in Belarus, Algeria, France and the USA. He has worked for extragovernmental organizations since the 1990s, in 1990-1996 he was a vice-mayor of Hrodna. In 2001 he was a chief of staff of Siamion Domash, in 2005 he was chosen by the United Democratic Forces of Belarus as the joint candidate…

Yulia Tymoshenko

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Ukrainian-German Relations as a Factor of European Orientation of the Country

From the German point of view, Ukraine is percepted primarily as a state which has been situated on the Eastern border of the EU since 2004, and as a territory intersected by the routes of energy raw material transit from Russia to Europe. On one hand, from this perspective Ukraine has a strategic position, yet from the German point of view it is percepted as a source of potential security risks. On the other hand, for Ukraine…

Gaza Strip with high support for Hamas. Map - Source: http://www.lib.utexas.edu

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The Electoral Victory of Hamas – reasons and consequences

The election to the Legislative Council (Palestinian parliament) took place on January 15, which resulted in a supposedly surprising outcome – in a victory of the Change and Reform Party, which is in fact a political party representing the Hamas radical movement. The latter, together with its four cooperating independent MPs, won 80 seats out of 132 in the legislature of Palestinian National Authority…

A B-1B Lancer is approaching the refueling aircraft KC-135 Stratotanker Christmas Day at the U.S. military base Manas in Kyrgyzstan. Source: http://www.amc.af.mil

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Kyrgyzstan at the Intersection of Interests of World Superpowers. Internal and External Security Risks

The events of March 24 opened a number of problems, either the ones that increased gradually throughout the former regime, or new ones that represent risks for the stability of the small republic. One of the fiercest problems is the untrasparent idea of the present Kyrgyz elites as for the position of the country in relation to world superpowers and to other influential states in region of Central Asia…

South Ukrainian Kherson from the air. Source: http://hmu.net.ua

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The Orange Revolution and the phenomenon of the South – fictitious ‘us’ and fictitious ‘them’

Bádatelia, ktorí sa venujú javu „Oranžovej revolúcie”, sa stále viac zaoberajú osobitosťami chápania a metódami správania tzv. bielo-modrej frondy, ku ktorej kategoricky zaraďovali na začiatku všetky regióny juhovýchodnej Ukrajiny, keďže vo všetkých troch kolách volieb v južných a východných oblastiach získal väčšinu Viktor Janukovyč. „Po každom kole volieb jedným zo zdrojov maľovania čierno-bieleho..