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Kazakhstan's Historic Election

Al Eisele | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Elections, Osce, Nazarbayev, Arab Awakening, Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan Election, Nazarbayev Election, Nursultan Nazarbayev, World News

Kazakhstan's relatively quiet election process, with its extraordinarily high turnout and lack of violence, stood in sharp contrast to recent political and social unrest in parts of Russia and in the so-called "Arab Awakening."

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The Cost of Corruption

Peter Zalmayev | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Osce Member States, Osce, Kazakhstan, President Bakiev, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Kazakhstan Corruption, u.s. Kazakhstan, World News

OSCE member states gathered in Oslo for a session of the Parliamentary Assembly, whose theme is "Combating Transnational Crime and Corruption." Led by Kazakhstan, the irony of a corrupt government presiding was palpable.

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Rise of Eurasianism through institutions: the CICA as the OSCE of Eurasia

Tuncay Babali | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Osce, Security, Eurasia, Cica, World News

Leaders from about 40 countries across Eurasia and the Middle East including Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliy...

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This Year, the Fox Will Guard the Henhouse

Vyacheslav Abramov | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Osce, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Kazakhstan, World News

The idea that my country's government will chair the OSCE this year is a little analogous to asking the fox to guard to the henhouse, yet that is the situation we now face.

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Kazakhstan's Human Rights Drop Through the Floor

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 05.25.2011

I fear that we might just see exactly how many barrels of oil a given dictator needs to export in order to flaunt the law.

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Remembering the Nazi-Soviet Pact After Seventy Years

Robert Gellately | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Communism, Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Stalinism, Osce, World War II, Soviet Union, Home News

On August 23, 1939 Stalin's agreement with Nazi Germany gave Hitler the green light. That signal was important at the time and seventy years later there is no reason for Russians to deny it.

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Tackling European Security in Corfu

Dora Bakoyannis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Piracy, Foreign Ministers, Iron Curtain, Terrorism, Nato, European Union, Nuclear Proliferation, Osce, Berlin Wall, Europe, World News

Today, the renewed commitment from Russia and the U.S. to work on common ground, focusing their relationship on what unites them, creates a momentum we should built on.

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The US War on Yugoslavia: Ten Years Later

Stephen Zunes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Serbia, Bill Clinton, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Slobodan Milosovic, Nato, Ibrahim Rugova, Bush Administration, Obama, Osce, 1973 War Powers Act, Rambouillet, Kla, World News

For many Democrats, the 1999 U.S-led war in Yugoslavia was a "good" war, in contrast to the "bad" war in Iraq. But it was still an unnecessary and illegal war, with political consequences that are far from settled.

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Russia Forcing Team Of Monitors To Abandon Georgia Mission

AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia George South Ossetia, Osce Close Georgia Mission, Russia Georgia Conflict, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Russia, Osce Georgia Mission, Osce, Russia Georgia, World News

VIENNA, Austria — A team of international monitors is ending its 16-year mission in Georgia after Russia refused to allow an extension of the as...

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A Land Where Nowhere Is Safe: A Lesbian Activist Speaks About Gender and Violence in Kyrgyzstan

Anna Kirey | Posted 11.17.2011

The government does not even recognize officially that lesbian or bisexual women and transgender people exist. There is no place for us in a conservative, patriarchal value system.

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