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Frank Judd: "Situation in Chechnya affects not only locals, but the global community as a whole"
Russian authorities have managed to isolate the Chechen Republic from western journalists and almost completely block the flow of independent information from the region. However, the commitment to act most cruelly and violently in Chechnya is in fact an evidence of Moscow's weakness; while the best way out is in improvement of social and economic life in Chechnya and launching the negotiation process. This was told in the interview to the "Caucasian Knot" by Lord Frank Judd, participant of the inter-party parliamentary group for defence of human rights of the British Parliament, former PACE's Rapporteur for Chechnya, who paid a visit to the republic as the head of the British parliamentary delegation on February 15-18, 2010.
Chechnya, Ingushetia, Russia, North Caucasus, North-Caucasian Federal District
Conflicts, Crime, Society, Economics
May 03 2010, 09:00
Interview with Tom de Waal "I look optimistically at the problem of normalizing Armenian-Turkish relations, since societies change and people become more open for possible changes"
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Thomas de Waal, British journalist and writer, former editor of the Caucasus department of the British Institute for War and Peace Reporting, co-founder of the non-government organization GO Group, one of the best-known Western experts on the Caucasus. In an interview to the "Caucasian Knot" he commented on the situation around the ratification of Armenian-Turkish protocols, on the prospects of settling the Nagorno-Karabakh problem and the relations between Azerbaijan and Iran.
Armenia, Nagorny Karabakh, Azerbaijan
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Apr 27 2010, 10:00
Interview with Ethan Zuckerman (Berkman Center for Internet and Society)
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Azerbaijan, Russia, Chechnya, Armenia, Georgia, North Caucasus
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Sep 29 2009, 23:00
FIDH President Souyer Belassen: "It is impossible to work in Chechnya because it is Russia"
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On 25 September, the president of the International Federation for Human Rights (IFHR) Souyer Belassen attended the Moscow court sitting that was considering a suit of the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov against the chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Center Oleg Orlov. After the sitting, the human rights activist gave her vision of this legal process and the overall situation with human rights in the Russian Federation.
South Federal District, Russia, Chechnya
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Jul 17 2009, 14:00; CK correspondent
Natalia Estemirova's Last Interview to Caucasian Knot
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Ingushetia, Chechnya, South Federal District
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Mar 09 2009, 21:00; CK correspondent
Levon Barsegyan (head of Journalists' Press Club "Asparez"): GALA TV Company is working, Armenian authorities slacken pressure on media
| About a year ago in Armenia, the GALA TV Company, non-controlled by the authorities and based in the city of Gyumri, the second largest city of Armenia, managed to escape closing. Great efforts to this end were made by the Journalists' Press Club named "Asparez". Levon Barsegyan, President of this Gyumri-based Club, shared his views with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about today's situation in Armenian media and characterized the country's internal political processes. |
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