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Map of the division of Cyprus. Source: http://www.kypros.com

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Cyprus: rise and fall of new hopes for solution

The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is standing on a crossroad. Many believe the year of 2008 is a crucial milestone in determining the future of the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots. These bold expectations are underpinned in the good news that after four years of deadlock, negotiations between the two communities were kicked off once again. Both leaders, i.e. the newly elected Greek Cypriot president Demetris Christofias…

Israel's main battle tank Merkava IV. Source: http://www.armyrecognition.com

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The rivalry and cooperation between Israel and Russia in the field of armament industry

Both, the Russia Federation as well as Israel, are countries with developed armament industry and defence sector. For Israel, which has been dominating the world rankings of arms expenditures per capita for a long time, it is, as its representatives declare, a question of survival in the region where its existence is often perceived by the neighbours with animosity or overt hostility. In the Russian Federation, armament industry, as one of few…

Equipment destroyed an Israeli air strike in September 2007. Source: www.time.com

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The affair around Syrian nuclear program

Syria has registered a very positive development in the field of international politics in the last months. After signing the Agreement of Doha between Lebanese antisyrian coalition and prosyrian opposition forces, France as the presidency country of the European Union showed an effort for reinforcing political and – as it was shown later – also economic relationships with Damascus (1), which can also be demonstrated by the successive meetings of Presidents of both countries…

The war in South Ossetia. Source: Wikipedia.

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War and peace – possible scenarios

Who started the recent war in South Ossetia and why? Answers to these questions are unequivocal and simultaneously complicated. From many points of view, these answers depend not on the state of our knowledge, but on information sources which we use. Meanwhile, only one thing is clear. The US and Russia are indisputably involved in this small war to the same extent. However…

The Russian military is moving to Georgia. Source: nytimes.com

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The first week of the military conflict in Georgia: the chronology of events

At the close of the conflict: 1st – 7th August, 2008. On 1st August, 2008, first news about the outbreak of a local border conflict in the region appeared. There were repeated armed skirmishes under way between the Georgian army and South Ossetian troops which claimed several victims also in the ranks of civilians. The parties accused each other of escalating the conflict: the Georgian party accused South Ossetian…

Golan Heights and Israeli settlements. Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk

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Israel and Syria negotiate for peace after eight years again, now it’s Lebanon’s turn

Two states, which have been formally in state of war since the so-called Six-Day War in 1967, restored indirect peace negotiations headed by Turkey, which has strived to act as a catalyst for peace in the Middle East for a long time. It was not until May 2008 that all sides confirmed officially this message, although negotiations had already been under way for several months by that time. Israeli occupation of the strategic territory…

Existing and planned gas hubs in Europe

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The importance of gas trading hubs for Slovakia

The establishment of a single European natural gas market has been the objective of the European Commission (EC) for a long time. This objective is embodied primarily in liberalisation efforts the last result of which was introduced in September 2007 in terms of the third liberalisation package proposal. The EC started making these efforts in the 1990’s when Europe began to perceive shortages within the existent…

Lebanon, temple complex in Baalbek

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Hezbollah has shuffled the cards in Lebanon game

Lebanese political scene may be characterised as restless from the very beginning for many reasons. First of all it is the fact that it’s an ethnically and religiously divided country. The Christians amount approximately to 36 per cent of population, Sunni and Shia population account both for 29 per cent and the Druze 7 per cent out of overall Lebanese population. Compared with the situation in 1947 when the independent…

Hermes-450 drone. Source: www.defenstech.org

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The shooting down of Georgian drone and the escalation of tension in the South Caucasus

On 20th April, 2008, Georgian unmanned reconnaissance aircraft was shot down over the village of Gagida in Abkhazia. The separatist Abkhaz air force claimed responsibility for shooting it down. The representative of de facto Abkhaz President in the Gali region Ruslan Kishmaria informed about the incident adding that it was Georgia’s second reconnaissance aircraft which was shot down during last weeks…

Ramush Haradinaj and Ibrahim Rugova

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The origin, development and current dimension of organised crime in Kosovo

Organised crime (OC) and mafia in Kosovo are important factors which influence not only the functioning of the country, but also the international community’s policy in the Balkans. Notwithstanding the significance of OC in Kosovo, its activities, goals and origin aren’t very often discussed in the West, this holds true even when adopting such crucial decisions like Kosovo’s declaration of independence…