IWPR's Caucasus Reporting Service No. 2

Reply-To: [email protected]
Sender: [email protected]
From: MINELRES moderator <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:04:20 +0300 (EET DST)
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Subject: IWPR's Caucasus Reporting Service No. 2

From: MINELRES moderator <[email protected]>

Original sender: Institute for War and Peace Reporting <[email protected]>

IWPR's Caucasus Reporting Service No. 2


WELCOME TO IWPR'S CAUCASUS REPORTING SERVICE, No.2, OCTOBER 15, 1999
 
TOTAL WAR OR A BATTLE FOR HEARTS AND MINDS. The Kremlin faces a choice
in Chechnya: establish a cordon sanitaire or embark on an all-out
blitz on Grozny. Andrei Babitsky in Northern Chechnya reviews the
options.
 
RUSSIA SWEEPS ASIDE PEACE OFFERS IN RACE FOR A 'GLORIOUS' VICTORY.
Chechen leader Maskhadov's offer of talks has been rebuffed. Moscow is
aiming to settle the "Chechen problem" once and for all. By Rasim
Musabekov in Baku.
 
CHECHEN AUTHORITIES COME ON SIDE TO FREE GEORGIA'S HOSTAGES OF
FORTUNE. The chaos in Chechnya is spreading over the border into
Georgia as armed gangs turn to kidnap to raise foreign money for
weapons. By David Paichadze in Tbilisi.
 
BAKU'S FIRM PRO-RUSSIAN LINE CLAIMS A VICTIM. The abrupt departure of
the Azeri president's trusted aide has fueled further speculations
about negotiations over Nagorno-Karabakh and other policies of concern
to Moscow. Shahin Rzaev in Baku asks whether the advisor jumped or was
pushed.
 
************************************
 
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 service
publishes objective news and analysis from across the region upon a
weekly basis. 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: http://www.iwpr.net
 
Editor-in-chief: Anthony Borden. Managing Editor: Rohan Jayasekera.
Assistant Editor: Alan Davis. Commissioning Editors: Giorgi Topouria
in Tbilisi, Shahin Razev in Baku, Mark Grigorian in Yerevan and Saule
Mukhametrakhimova and Felix Corley in London.
 
To comment on the service, contact IWPR's Programme Director: Alan
Davis [email protected].
 
The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) is a London-based
independent non-profit organisation supporting regional media and
democratic change.
 
Lancaster House, 33 Islington High Street, London N1 9LH, 
United Kingdom.
Tel: (44 171) 713 7130; 
Fax: (44 171) 713 7140 
E-mail: [email protected]; 
Web: http://www.iwpr.net
 
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: http://www.iwpr.net **************

-- 
==============================================================
MINELRES - a forum for discussion on minorities in Central&Eastern
Europe

Submissions: [email protected]  
Subscription/inquiries: [email protected] 
List archive: http://www.riga.lv/minelres/archive.htm
==============================================================