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The results of the surveys conducted among nearly 40.000 people by “Globescan” social surveys center and international politics department of Maryland University state that Japan and European countries have the most positive image in the world. Iran, USA and Russia are the most negative according to the list.

According to the US State Department website, the US Ambassador to the OSCE Julie Finley has approved the court verdict according to which Orhan Pamuk was ceased to be pursued for “garbling the image of Turkey”. According to him that is a positive change in Turkey to freely express opinions. “We hope that the cases …

Last week, Georgia’s special services found out the conspiracy against Mikhail Sahakashvili. In the Karelian region, located near the Georgian-Osetian conflict zone, they found an “Igla” zenith rocket missile. First, they said that they had found the missile hung from a tree and that it was “aimed towards president Sahakashvili’s aircraft”. Then they announced that …

If the energetic crisis in Georgia was aimed purposely towards president Mikhail Sahakashvili and his administration, then we can say that the people who did this got what they wanted. The president’s reputation has gone down and it had already been going down recently. The next step taken by the president, which he took by …

Any international specialist who has been following up on the maintenance of democratic values in the former Soviet Georgia knows that the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) were doing just fine back then. There are many NGOs in Georgia and there are many involved in solving issues having to do with freedom of speech. This refers to …

Selling the gas pipeline is once again in the center of attention in Georgia. It seems as though there will be certain steps taken after the discussions and that may cause some problems between Georgia and the main sponsor for the gas pipeline -the U.S. Last year in Washington, the U.S. granted Tbilisi approximately 300 …

In Georgia these days are not holidays for the Georgian Ministry of Justice, police and prisoners. It has been a week since the riots started in the jails of Georgia. These kinds of scenes could be only seen on TV, in Western programs on prisons. This is where the prisoners as a sign of protest …

On December 14, 2005, the day when the co-chairmen of the Minsk group visited Azerbaijan, the President of that country Ilham Aliev expressed certain remarkable thoughts in his speech at the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan. The event was dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Academy. During his speech he petitioned the intelligentsia and …

The military specialists of OSCE top planning board are currently in Ganja. The delegation has visited several military units and other places in the city. They also met with the officials of the city railway and airport central boards. They didn’t want to make contact with the press, claiming that their visit would only bring …

The Russian-Georgian business conference which took place last week in Tbilisi was a pretty important event and effective. The conference was based on throwing blame on one another but was important for international relations which are in a stage of crisis. But it turned out that the political parties are not creating problems for Russia …