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Лидер закарпатских русинов Пётр Гецко

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Мы начинали с Фицо, но нас проигнорировали; сейчас у нас наиболее конструктивное сотрудничество с Йоббиком. Лидер закарпатских русинов Пётр Гецко в интервью порталу DespiteBorders.com

Пётр Гецко является лидером русинского движения, выступающим за независимость Закарпатья от Украины. На II Европейском Конгрессе Подкарпатских Русинов 2008-го года он был избран премьер-министром правительства Республики Подкарпатская Русь. В настоящее время он объявлен в розыск и обвиняется в посягательстве на территориальную…

Алексей Александров. Источник: www.stoletie.ru

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“Евромайдан” может стать прологом новой европейской войны: Алексей Александров в интервью порталу DespiteBorders.com

Словацкие и зарубежные (западные) СМИ сообщают о настоящем политическом кризисе в Украине преимущественно с точки зрения политических структур, имеющих свои корни на Западной Украине. Через публикуемые ими тексты трудно добраться до информации, иллюстрирующей позицию юго-востока Украины. Именно…

Igor Smirnov (center), Stanislav Chazhejev (left) and Valentin Varennikov (right). Source: www.nr2.ru

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Pridnestrovie’s future: Liberal economy, Freedom and security

Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublica is going to celebrate its 20 anniversary since it declared independence. The people who created the republic in a nation-wide unity became disappointed by the situation in Pridnestrovie today, after they devolved power on the leaders of the country. Many things happened since 1990. There was a military conflict with Moldova in 1991-1992, a transition to market economy and serious transformations…

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Restart, time out or draw? Obama´s visit to Moscow and its implications for the post-Soviet room

The visit of US President Barack Obama to Moscow evoked mild optimism. If we take into account that during the era of President George Bush Jr. the relations between Russia and the US were at freezing point, then any shift in the tone of US policy must have been more than welcomed since the US approached Russia as well as own allies as the “younger brother”. An important change, which needn’t be just symbolic, is the very change of…

Protests in Minsk against manipulated elections. Source: http://www.tut.by

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Belarusian “non-elections”

Parliamentary elections in Belarus have come to an end and the Opposition has lost again, as it was to be expected. However, this time it wasn’t just a political defeat. It lost also from the psychological point of view since it relied on the authority’s statements and believed President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s vague pledges that fair elections would be held. Lukashenko gave the representatives of opposition parties as well as independent candidates no chance to fill…

Minsk - Belarus Parliament seat. Source: http://pictures.exploitz.com

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Lukashenko doesn’t want to recognise South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Belarusian political scientist Andrey Liakhovich for DespiteBorders

On 28th September, 2008, parliamentary elections were held in Belarus. The observer mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe has rejected to recognise their result. DespiteBorders talks with the political scientist Andrey Liakhovich, the Director of the Centre for Political Education, about their implications for innerpolitical development in Belarus as well as the latest development within Belarusian-Russian relations.

The presidents of Russia and Belarus Dmitry Medvedev (left) and Alexander Lukashenko (right). Source: http://www.daylife.com

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New geopolitical horizons for Belarusian regime

It seams that the “policy of flirting”, which the Belarusian regime has pursued towards the West for a long time, has started to bear fruit. However, it doesn’t mean that the era of democratisation or liberalisation begins in Belarus or that the authority starts to fulfil political demands towards the improvement of situation in the field of human rights. Most probably, it won’t be possible to speak of any democratisation in the country in the course of next years at all. In view of the current state of relations…

Belarusian political scientist Vitaly Silickij

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Belarusian political scientist Vitaly Silicky: The people don’t believe that changes in Belarus are conceivable

Vitaly Silicky ranks among prominent Belarusian political analysts. In the past, he worked at the European Humanity University in Minsk (1999 – 2003), in the period 2005 – 2006 he participated in a training period at the Stanford University (USA). Nowadays, he’s the Director of Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies, which integrates several independent analytical centres in the country. He publishes his articles…

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EU Eastern Partnership as an Inducement for New Member States

Although the concept of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) remains the primary framework regulating policy of the European Union (EU) towards neighbour states, a French initiative of Mediterranian Union and a Polish-Swedish project of Eastern Partnership represent important changes in this concept. The emergence of ENP required enlargement of the EU in 2004, when countries…

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Economic dimension of the integration in the Commonwealth of Independent States

In the end of the 20th century, one of the most crucial events was the demise of socialist economic system and international relations based on it. The era of the rule of two superpowers was over and the world has come under the control of a single hyperpower, namely the United States. Although many countries with the so-called rising economies are in quest for multi-polarity, it is difficult to define…