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| Polish foreign policy after the 2007 parliamentary elections from the viewpoint of experts |
Juraj Marušiak | 18.10.2007
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Despite Borders brings the opinions of Polish experts in foreign policy on its future in the case of the current opposition victory. How do you assess the results of Polish foreign policy following the 2005 parliamentary elections? Has the government succeeded in the strengthening of the international status of Poland or has it achieved the contrary? Roman Kuźniar (University of Warsaw): I find them negative. Polish foreign policy emerged from erroneous assumptions and was under incompetent control. The international status of Poland has deteriorated and has also been marginalised in fact. This happened due to the absence of a positive programme which was replaced by the idea of "harshness”. The policy bore a reactionary character and conveyed a negative attitude towards other opinions. The image of Poland has...
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| We rarely engaged intrapolitical dialogue: Interview with the chairman of the opposition Social Democratic Union of Macedonia Mrs. Radmila Sekerinska |
| Vladimír Sečanský | 31.05.2007
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After the Republic of Macedonia became independent, SDSM was the leading subject in the government for almost 12 years. However, your party lost the recent parliamentary election and you have been elected the leader in the early party Congress. You have accepted the new status of the party for the next 4 years. However, you have the lowest preference ever since the establishment of the party. Have you managed to carry out a self-reflection in connection to the party and to identify the faulty decisions that caused the electional defeat? When you are one of the leading parties in the transition process, you have to be prepared for great victories, but sometimes also for difficult defeats. In moments like this you also prove that you are worth to be a strong party, when in a critical situation you can find strength for reformation and modernization...
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| The Armenians support the entry of Turkey into the European Union: An interview with the freelance Armenian ethnologist and analyst Tigran Matosyan |
| Juraj Marušiak | 28.06.2007
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How do you assess the result of the last parliamentary elections in Armenia? What changes will they bring to your country? As for the elections themselves, they were a step forward according to the ratings by international observers. We may evaluate the elections from the viewpoint of what they will bring to Armenia itself, or how will they influence the relations between Armenia and other states. In my opinion, the fact that the elections meant a step forward will lay the foundations for the realisation of democratic elections, although as international observers from OSCE, the EU and the European Council remarked, there occurred also some shortcomings. As far as the relations of Armenia with other countries and the international community are concerned, the fact that the evaluation by international observers of the elections...
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| Democrat is synonymous with traitor in Russia: An interview with the Russian political scientist Sergei Markov |
| Juraj Marušiak | 23.06.2007
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The Russian political scientist Sergei Aleksandrovych Markov (born 1958) works as the director of the Institute for Political Studies in Moscow in the present. He is at the same time the head of the Foreign Political Department of the influential internet portal Strane.Ru which is close to current governmental and presidential circles. He is a lecturer at the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Simultaneously, he is a deputy in the Public Chamber of the Russian Parliament established in 2005 on the initiative of the Russian President Putin. He cooperated with the pro-Putin youth movement "Naši”. In 2004, he was a co-worker of the Viktor Yanukovych's electoral staff in Ukraine. In the past, he worked as an aide to the President of the Russian Federation with the Security Council (in 1992), he completed a training period at the...
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| United Europe should be the ultimate historical destination of Georgia: Interview with Georgian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Nikoloz Nikolozishvili |
| Martin Braxatoris | 16.6.2007
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A relatively short time ago, the Embassy of Georgia with the seat in Bratislava was opened. Mr Nikoloz Nikolozishvili is the Georgian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Slovak Republic since October 3, 2006. He acts at the same time as the Ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia., We have discussed with His Excellency the current state of the relations between Slovakia and Georgia as well as the up-to-date challenges and issues of Georgia on the area of foreign policy and economy. At what level are the relations between Georgia and Slovakia in the present? In what way have they changed during the period in which Georgia and Slovakia have existed as independent republics? The Slovak-Georgian relations have been developing firmly since our countries gained their independence. Ever since, we have also...
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| Belarusians have divested of fear – The Candidate for President of Belarus Alexander Milinkevich |
| Juraj Marušiak in co-operation with daily paper Hospodarske noviny | 24.07.2006
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His ancestors participated in the uprising against the tzar regime in 1863. He lectured at universities in Belarus, Algeria, France and the USA. He has worked for extragovernmental organizations since the 1990s, in 1990-1996 he was a vice-mayor of Hrodna. In 2001 he was a chief of staff of Siamion Domash, in 2005 he was chosen by the United Democratic Forces of Belarus as the joint candidate of the opposition for the President of Belarus. In the presidential election held in 2006 he ended up second with 6.1% of the vote. The current authoritative President Alexander Lukashenko won 83% of the vote. What is your evaluation of the election outcome?Do you consider the election campaign successful despite the official results? We have not won the election, but the authorities have not won it either. In order to secure the figures...
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