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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…

Russia's Permanent Representative to NATO Dmitry Rogozin. Source: http://www.nato.int

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Summer 2008 in the spirit of Russian (not only) diplomatic offensive

The military conflict in Georgia and its international implications have diverted attention away from other Russian diplomatic and political initiatives presented during this year’s summer months. Observers concentrated particularly on the rivalry between Russia and the US when commenting the Russian-Georgian conflict. They analysed to a considerably lower extent events in the context of Russian-European relations and Russian notions of the shape of European security…

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…

Ambassador of Georgia Nikoloz Nikolozishvili

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Territorial integrity of Georgia is indisputable: Georgian Ambassador to Slovakia Nikoloz Nikolozishvili

In the night of 7th August, a military conflict broke out in Georgia. The Russian Federation got involved in this conflict as well. In connection with war events in Georgia, we have asked the Embassy of Georgia to Slovakia for an interview. We have been given the interview by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Slovakia Nikoloz Nikolozishvili. We have asked also the Embassy of the Russian…

Geoenergy will determine the daily lives of EU citizens. Source: http://europa.eu

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Geoenergy policy of the EU as a possible basis for new geopolitical doctrine

Irrespective of its economic potential and political prospects, the European Union (EU) remains a weak geopolitical player with plenty of conflicting national interests and geostrategic priorities. These discrepancies cause that all European Council’s attempts to set a cohesive geopolitical course and joint foreign policy have failed. The EU cannot exist as a united suprastate whole without this. As long…

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…

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…

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…

Inna Ohnivets

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Ukrainian entry into NATO is advantageous also for Russia. The interview with the Ukrainian Ambassador to the Slovak Republic Inna Ohnivets

Ukraine is for Slovakia an important neighbour not only from the point of view of its security interests, but Ukraine is the potential important trade partner of Slovakia as well. The development of the cooperation with Ukraine belongs to the priorities of the foreign policy of Slovakia in the framework of European Union and NATO as well. The foreign policy of Ukraine, its integration ambitions and bilateral Slovak-Ukrainian…