 RFE/RL Caucasus Report 8/27/2010 4:48:32 PM A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about the countries of the South Caucasus and Russia's North Caucasus region. For more stories on the Caucasus, please visit and bookmark our Caucasus page . |
 In One Azerbaijan Village, 'Carrying Water Is Women's Work' In Azerbaijan, the ambitious wife and daughters of President Ilham Aliyev illustrate how powerful some women have become in the energy-rich Caspian state. But hundreds of kilometers away, in the rural villages of central Azerbaijan, the lives of women are dramatically different. More  Armenian Praise For Clinton Letter Government and opposition parties in Armenia have responded positively to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's pledge to promote democracy and human rights in the country. More  Baku: Armenian Statement 'Laughable' Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry has rejected as "laughable" a claim by Yerevan that Russia could back Armenia in case of a new conflict over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. More  Armenia Warns Baku Over UN Resolution Armenia's Foreign Ministry has warned Azerbaijan against trying to push through the United Nations General Assembly a fresh resolution that accuses Yerevan of occupying Azerbaijani lands and thereby hampering a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. More  EU Pressures Azerbaijan On 'Donkey Bloggers' Nice to see the EU's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton take a stand on the case of Azerbaijan's "donkey bloggers," who in 2009 received jail terms, ostensibly on hooliganism charges. More  Georgian IDPs Sew Mouths Shut In Protest Four internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia have sewn their mouths shut in a protest at being moved from dwellings in Tbilisi More  Pressure On Abkhaz Leader Intensifies An Abkhaz weekly has accused the Georgian breakaway region's leader of considering new concessions to Russia, including allowing for the return to Abkhazia of thousands of Georgians who fled to the Russian Federation during the 1992-93 war and subsequently acquired Russian citizenship. More  Armenian Opposition Concerned About Russian Deal Two members of the opposition Zharangutiun (Heritage) party have expressed concern over Armenia's new military accord with Russia. More  The Wider Implications Of The Russian-Armenian Defense Deal Russia may soon be able to play a role it has always coveted, that of a principal security provider and peace guarantor in the former Soviet space. If its serious about exercising that role, it will need to refocus its strategy from an essentially negative one to a positive one -- conflict prevention and conflict resolution. More  Armenian Agriculture Slow To Recover Armenia's economic recovery slowed further last month due to a sharp fall in agricultural output. More  The Shadowy Life Of Magomedali Vagabov Russia's National Counterterrorism Committee says security forces have killed Magomedali Vagabov, a top militant suspected of organizing the suicide bombings on the Moscow Metro in March. |
