“Ukraine Needs Europe, and Europe Needs Ukraine”
“The only chance for Ukraine is to be on our side … Ukraine needs Europe, and Europe needs Ukraine.” This was the general consensus of a conference in Berlin on October 23, 2012, featuring statesmen...
View ArticleUkraine’s “Litmus Test” Elections Arrive
Tomorrow, Sunday October 28, Ukrainians will head to the polls for their parliamentary elections. Ukraine is still a young democracy, bearing the scars of seventy years of Soviet occupation both in the...
View ArticleAgenda of Growth for the New Georgian Government
Peaceful transfers of power are all too rare in nations in transition, moving from autocracy to democracy. But sometimes men’s better angels prevail. Lawrence Sheets of the International Crisis Group...
View ArticleAzerbaijan Prepares for Polls
Azerbaijan’s presidential election is set for tomorrow, and despite a newly invigorated but still fractured opposition, it appears that Ilham Aliyev will retain the presidency for another term....
View ArticleAzerbaijan’s Malfunctioning Election App Draws Snickers from Supporters of...
Displaying the keen insight that has made him a legend in foreign policy spheres in his own newsroom, Max Fisher of the Washington Post has a piece up about an election app commissioned by Azerbaijan’s...
View ArticleElections in a World Falling Down
A specter is haunting Eastern Europe, and its name is Russia. Europe and the U.S., too slow to respond, are allowing that specter to change the way Eastern Europe sees the world. Ukraine has held two...
View ArticleElections in Azerbaijan: Avoid the “Double Standard”
We are honored to have Mr. Volontè‘s commentary as we welcome his guest contribution today. The next elections in Azerbaijan, set for November of this year, represent a great opportunity for Europe and...
View ArticleAzerbaijan’s Elections Shaping Up As Reminder to West About Nagorno-Karabakh
Prominent American pollster Arthur Finkelstein and Associates continues to bring cutting-edge polling techniques to Azerbaijan, this time in advance of the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled...
View ArticleA Study in Contrasts: PACE Praises Azerbaijan’s Elections, Decries Turkey’s
It is a tale of two elections: if not the best of times, very far from the worst; and one making a bid for the worst. It is a tale of an election run smoothly, fairly, openly, and well in Azerbaijan,...
View ArticleIrregularities at PACE’s Secretary-General Elections Come to the Fore
On September 29, in a vote plagued by irregularities, Wojciech Sawicki was re-elected as the Secretary-General of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). PACE matters because it is...
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