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Salome Zourabichvili
  • 13 may 2007

    Kosovo as a Positive Precedent

    Why do we accept organization of European territories in the 21st century along ethnic lines as an uncontested value and goal? It is one thing to restore the independence of nation-states that once existed and were suppressed, but it is quite another thing to create ex nihilo ethnic states, following the “Russian stacking doll” model.

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A revolutionary chaos of the new world

The world is getting more troublesome and increasingly challenging right before our eyes.

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Will Russia Lose Georgia for Good?

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili finally got what he couldn’t get for several years: an official visit to the White House.

Kosovo as a Positive Precedent

Why do we accept organization of European territories in the 21st century along ethnic lines as an uncontested value and goal? It is one thing to restore the independence of nation-states that once existed and were suppressed, but it is quite another thing to create ex nihilo ethnic states, following the “Russian stacking doll” model.

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