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| Does Belgrade betray the interests of Kosovo Serbs? An interview with State Secretary Oliver Ivanoviæ and the leader of Kosovo Serbs Marko Jakšiæ |
Martin Braxatoris | 10.09.2009
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Oliver Ivanoviæ is the State Secretary of the Serbian Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, former Speaker of the Serb National Council of Kosovska Mitrovica and former leader of Kosovo Serbs. He is a karate grandmaster. During the war, he was an active leader of Serbian home defense in the north of Kosovo. He was a member of the negotiation team at international talks on the status of Kosovo. Marko Jakšiæ is the Vice Chairperson of the Association of Serb Municipalities and Settlements of northern Kosovo and Metohija and factual leader of Kosovo Serbs. He is a member of Vojislav Koštunicaʼs Democratic Party of Serbia and doctor at the orthopaedic clinic of the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica where he has been a director until recently. He was a member of the negotiation team...
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| The Slovak Government supports intensively Georgian entry into NATO: The Vice Prime Minister of the Georgian Government and State Minister on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Giorgi Baramidze. |
| Martin Braxatoris | 20.04.2009
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In the first half of March 2009, the Vice Prime Minister of the Georgian Government and State Minister on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Giorgi Baramidze officially visited the Slovak Republic. We interviewed him on the current position of the Slovak Republic on Georgian integration into Euro-Atlantic structures, the prospects of NATO and EU membership as well as the impact of the August Georgian-Russian conflict on the integration process. Mr Vice Prime Minister, you have had an audience with the Foreign Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajèák recently. In this context, the Foreign Affairs Ministry issued a statement in which it backed Georgian EU and NATO integration efforts and welcomed the establishment of the committee NATO – Georgia. How do you assess the activities of the Slovak Republic in connection with Georgian integration....
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| Bagapsh tries to preserve independence in politics. Georgian political scientist Mamuka Areshidze in an interview for DespiteBorders |
| Martin Braxatoris | 19.12.2008
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Mamuka Areshidze is Georgian political scientist specialising in the questions of Caucasus. He works as the Director of the Caucasian Centre of Strategic Research. In November 2008, he founded the social organisation the House of Free Opinion. In an interview for the portal Despite Borders he answered questions pertaining to the political situation in Abkhazia. From the point of view of stability, what is the situation in Abkhazia like today? Stability is virtual in a sense. Speaking of the north of Abkhazia, we may say that there's a relative calm. As far as southern Abkhazia is concerned, this doesn't hold true. There are conflicts among Georgian police, Russian soldiers and Abkhaz troops under way along the administrative border between Abkhazia and Georgia. There's a peculiar situation along the frontier with Abkhazia and South Ossetia...
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| We certainly will be recognized. Pridnestrovian political expert Roman Konoplev in an interview for DespiteBorders |
| Michal Ondrejèík | 06.12.2008
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Pridnestrovian political expert and chief of PR-agency Consulting Mobile Roman Konoplev in an interview for DespiteBorders.com speaks of Pridnestrovie (further information www.pridnestrovie.net). DespiteBorders has already been interested in Pridnestrovie partially there. What are attitudes of Pridnestrovian inhabitants (and local authorities) to legal status of Pridnestrovie and to possibilities of solution of this problem (meaning reunification with Moldova – confederation, federation, autonomous region; "reunification with Ukraine” or joining with Union of Russia and Belarus)? Is there any kind of exhaustion due to long-standing status quo? Since Pridnestrovian Republic has already existed for 20 years, the citizens of Pridnestrovie have learnt many things. Nobody is ready to sacrifice freedom...
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| Ukraine is heading for a civil war. Ukrainian political scientist Yuriy Romanenko in an interview for DespiteBorders |
| Juraj Marušiak | 14.10.2008
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Ukrainian journalist and political scientist Yuriy Romanenko is the Director of the Political Analysis Centre Stratagema and the head of special projects of the centre Glavred. He's at the same time the editor-in-chief of the internet portal Polité. In an interview for DespiteBorders, he speaks of one of the possible alternatives to Ukrainian future. Why have BYuT and People's Union – Our Ukraine proved to be incapable of forming a coalition of democratic forces for the second time, although they acted as allies during the "Orange Revolution”? They are rivals in their quest for power. They have been competing for presidential post. It was clear from the very beginning and therefore no peace can be between them. President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko accuse each other of being involved in early elections...
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| Lukashenko doesn’t want to recognise South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Belarusian political scientist Andrey Liakhovich for DespiteBorders |
| Juraj Marušiak | 03.10.2008
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On 28th September, 2008, parliamentary elections were held in Belarus. The observer mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe has rejected to recognise their result. DespiteBorders talks with the political scientist Andrey Liakhovich, the Director of the Centre for Political Education, about their implications for innerpolitical development in Belarus as well as the latest development within Belarusian-Russian relations. How do you asses the course of the parliamentary elections in Belarus and their results? Under the conditions of an authoritarian regime the elections couldn't have free and democratic character. Like in the past, the work of all structures of state apparatus was orientated towards the achievement of results contrived by the authority. All 110 candidates nominated by the authority...
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| Territorial integrity of Georgia is indisputable: Georgian Ambassador to Slovakia Nikoloz Nikolozishvili |
| Martin Braxatoris | 21.08.2008
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In the night of 7th August, a military conflict broke out in Georgia. The Russian Federation got involved in this conflict as well. In connection with war events in Georgia, we have asked the Embassy of Georgia to Slovakia for an interview. We have been given the interview by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Slovakia Nikoloz Nikolozishvili. We have asked also the Embassy of the Russian Federation for an interview. We have been currently waiting for its statement. We're hoping that we will be able to bring the interview to our readers within a short space of time. How did the war conflict in Georgia originate and what steps were taken by the parties in order to prevent the conflict? First of all, it is necessary to say that this conflict originated sooner than in the beginning of August. We pointed out to our Western partners...
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