The Silencing of SARA TV
An independent TV station in Azerbaijan remains shut down and its staff on hunger strike a month after armed police stormed the studios after the showing of a programme critical of President Heydar Aliev.
4 Nov 99
Caucasus
Kremlin Scores Strategic Victory in Chechnya - Over the Media
The Russian authorities use the kidnap threat to discourage reporters from attempting to travel to Chechnya, and those who dare to try are being stopped at the border. The result is a news blackout that benefits only the Kremlin.
4 Nov 99
Shevardnadze's Citizens Top Abashidze's Revivalists
The only real opposition to President Eduard Shevardnadze's Citizens Union of Georgia after last month's vote was Aslan Abashidze's Georgian Revival Party. Next year the two will face off again in the presidential poll.
4 Nov 99
New Appointments to Replace Murdered Armenian Officials
On the surface at least, constitutional order has been preserved in Armenia in the wake of the October 27 attack on the Yerevan parliament - but tensions with the military continue.
4 Nov 99
Aliev's Allies Desert Him Over Nagorno-Karabakh Talks
The idea of resignation on principle - even over such a sensitive issue as Nagorno-Karabakh - is a new one on most Azeri politicians. If the wave of departures from the Azeri government have a cause, it is little to do with honour.
29 Oct 99
After The Shooting
Armenia's president is weak and its prime minister is dead. Whatever follows the attack on the National Assembly, political change is inevitable.
29 Oct 99
Divining The True Motives Of The Calm Killers Of Vazgen Sarkisian
By Mark Grigorian in Tblisi (Published on October 29, 1999)
29 Oct 99
In The Borderlands Of Hell
Chechen refugees are trapped in limbo, unable to return to Grozny or leave the country while Russia and Ingushetia prevaricate on reopening the border.
29 Oct 99
A Disaster For Democracy Just Waiting To Happen
By Mikael Danialian in Yerevan (Published on October 29, 1999)
29 Oct 99
Murder In The Parliament - The Consequences
Armenia's stand off at its parliament may be at an end but the political fallout from Wednesday's televised carnage will linger for months yet.
29 Oct 99
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