Speaking to Reuters on Wednesday, Dolinsky said he and Feldman had sought to win Israeli support for “Ukraine and the aspirations of the Ukrainian people”. He voiced dismay at the Netanyahu government’s failure to oppose Russia’s Crimea move. A Ukrainian ...
In an interview with Radio Azadliq , a Director of the New York-based Eurasia Democracy Initiative explains further: “We are certainly in a very tense situation, with Moscow refusing to back down and keeping its troops in Crimea.” The three and half-months-old ...
Peter Zalmayev, who heads the Eurasia Democracy Initiative, a New York-based non-governmental organization that promotes human rights in Central Asia, said he began to suspect that delays in Giffen’s case were intentional after President George W. Bush met with Nazarbayev ...
“The current trend smacks of a creeping ‘Putinization’ of the country, as Yanukovich has been using state tools — including agencies such as Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) – to silence critics by muzzling media,” Peter Zalmayev, a Kharkiv native ...
Uzbeks, which make up about 15 percent of the population, “are severely under-represented” in Kyrgyzstan’s central and local governments, according to Peter Zalmayev, director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative. (CNN) — Tens of thousands of Uzbeks are fleeing ethnic violence ...
Peter Zalmayev of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative puts it this way: “Bakiyev came in under the premise he would clean [the government] up and make it more transparent. But he replaced the structure they had with Akayev and his son ...
“After Bakiyev engaged in brinksmanship [with the Manas Air Base], to see who the highest bidder would be,” the U.S. or Russia, “the Americans decided to give him what he wanted” to keep access to the air base, the Eurasia Democracy ...
Zalmayev described the visiting Azeri outfit as a “GONGO,” or Government Organized Non Governmental Organization. “These date to the Soviet era,” he told me. “ There were genuine dissidents and the Communist governments learned quickly to counterattack with GONGOs. You ...
“It’s absurd,” said Peter Zalmayev, president of the Eurasia Initiative at Columbia University and an expert on human rights in the region… Nazarbayev “has been mired in one scandal after another, and they’re coming up with all sorts of reasons to ...
Zalmayev described the visiting Azeri outfit as a “GONGO,” or Government Organized Non Governmental Organization. “These date to the Soviet era,” he told me. “ There were genuine dissidents and the Communist governments learned quickly to counterattack with GONGOs. You ...
