IWPR Caucasus Reporting Service, No.1

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IWPR Caucasus Reporting Service, No.1


WELCOME TO IWPR'S CAUCASUS REPORTING SERVICE, NO. 1, OCTOBER 7,1999.
 
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IWPR's Caucasus Reporting Service provides the regional and
international community with a unique insiders' perspective on the
Caucasus. Using our network of local journalists, the weekly service
publishes objective news and analysis from across the region.
 
The service forms part of IWPR's Caucasus Project based in Tbilisi and
London which supports local media development while encouraging better
local and international understanding of a conflicted yet emerging
region.
 
IWPR's Caucasus Reporting Service is supported by the UK National
Lottery Charities Board. The service is currently available on the Web
in English and will shortly be available in Russian.
 
All IWPR's reporting services including Balkan Crisis Reports and
Tribunal Update are available free of charge via e-mail subscription
or direct from the Web. The institute will be launching a fourth free
news service, IWPR Central Asia Reports, in the coming months.
 
To subscribe to any of our existing or forthcoming news services,
e-mail IWPR Programmes Officer Duncan Furey at [email protected] For
further details on this project and other information services and
media programmes, visit IWPR's Website: <www.iwpr.net>.
 
Editor-in-chief: Anthony Borden. Managing Editor: Rohan Jayasekera.
Assistant Editor: Alan Davis with Felix Corley in London.
Commissioning Editors: Giorgi Topouria in Tbilisi, Mark Grigorian in
Yerevan, Shahin Razev in Baku and and Saule Mukhametrakhimova in
London.
 
The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) is a London-based
independent non-profit organisation supporting regional media and
democratic change. To comment on this service, contact IWPR's
Programme Director: Alan Davis [email protected]
 
Lancaster House, 33 Islington High Street, London N1 9LH, 
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The opinions expressed in IWPR's Caucasus Reporting Service are those
of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the
publication or of IWPR.
 
Copyright (C) 1999 The Institute for War & Peace Reporting
 
********** VISIT IWPR ON-LINE: www.iwpr.net **************
 
BUILDING DEMOCRATIC CULTURE IN THE CAUCASUS FROM THE GROUND UP.
Unresolved conflict in the Southern Caucasus and the return to war in
the North is a problem for all. But democratisation must be a
fundamental part of the solution. IWPR director Anthony Borden
explains how our new service aims to contribute to this process.
 
RUSSIAN ARMY RETURNS, BRINGING FAMILIAR BAD TIDINGS. Moscow is again
attempting to subdue Chechnya by force. And while many of the stated
aims are different, writes Thomas De Waal, the tactics so far,
marginally less brutal, the effects on the local population are
exactly the same.
 
RUSSIA'S SECOND CHANCE IN CHECHNYA. The Chechen authorities have lost
the peoples' trust and most just want the anarchy to end - even if
that means the old rulers back. That gives Russia a second chance to
take and hold Chechnya - but only if it is better behaved this time.
By Kharon Deniev in Stavropol.
 
IN SEARCH OF ANOTHER 'SMALL VICTORIOUS WAR'. The message from the
Kremlin PR machine on its latest campaign in the north Caucasus is
simple. "We'll win it this time". Brian Whitmore reports from Moscow.
 
AT THE CROSSROADS. Politics has, it seems, never been so popular in
Georgia. But the voters are being offered two very different views on
the country's future by parties contesting the coming parliamentary
elections. Ia Antadze reports from Tbilisi.
 
HOW KOCHARIAN AND ALIEV TRIED TO BRING A WAR TO A SECRET END. Armenian
President Robert Kocharian and his Azerbaijani counterpart Heydar
Aliev met in Geneva to sort out the Karabakh issue 'man to man' and
behind closed doors. Mark Grigorian wonders how they got on.
 
STREET KIDS. Azerbaijan's media put the number of homeless children in
the country at 80,000 and rising. But human rights activists believe
even this is an underestimate. Alena Myasnikova talks to some of the
children on the streets of Baku.
 
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