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Dec 4, 2024 | 
telepolis.de | Almut Rochowanski
Georgiens Regierung schockiert die EU mit einem radikalen Schritt. Gleichzeitig nehmen in Tiflis wieder die Proteste zu. Ein Gastbeitrag. Die Ereignisse in der Republik Georgien haben eine überraschende Wendung genommen.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
responsiblestatecraft.org | Almut Rochowanski
Events have taken an astonishing turn in the Republic of Georgia. On Thursday, newly re-appointed Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidzeannounced that Georgia would not “put the issue of opening negotiations with the European Union on the agenda until the end of 2028,” and not accept budget support from the EU until then, either.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Almut Rochowanski
NowCNN — In the photo, four young women walk arm in arm, smiling and laughing, on a beach promenade. They’re dressed in mini skirts and flip flops, and there’s what looks like a 1960s Ford Corsair in the background. This is clearly a snapshot from a bygone era, but there’s something about the picture — …
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
quincyinst.org | Non-Resident Fellow |Anatol Lieven |Almut Rochowanski |Artin DerSimonian
Until recently, Georgia was often held up in the West as an example of a relatively healthy post-Soviet democracy. For example, the Atlantic Council report “2024 Atlas: Freedom and Prosperity Around the World” rated Georgia in the top quarter of all nations for the health of its democratic institutions, ahead of countries like Poland and Ukraine.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
discomfortzone.substack.com | Almut Rochowanski
I have a number of drafts idling, but before I get to them, I need to dash off something that has been irking me for a while. After all, I started this blog as a therapeutic ploy: no more biting my tongue about things that trouble me. So here goes: what’s with the sense of doom and panic that European policy-makers feel at the spectre of another Trump presidency and his explicit threat of ending US military protection for Europe?
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
ipg-journal.de | Almut Rochowanski
Als Viktor Orbán die empörte Reaktion von EU-Vertretern und Mitgliedstaaten auf sein Treffen mit Putin damit abschmetterte, dass „Brüsseler bürokratischer Unfug keinen Erfolg in der Suche nach Frieden“ gebracht hätte, seufzte ein kanadischer Experte: „Ich bin kein Fan von Orbán, aber da hat er nicht Unrecht.“ Die Maßnahmen der EU-Spitze und der Mitgliedstaaten gegen Orbán wirken kleinlich und gouvernantenhaft.
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May 30, 2024 | 
theideasletter.substack.com | Almut Rochowanski
In 2001, when I was in my 20s, I arrived for my first-ever internship in the picturesque, alluring, but wounded setting of the republic of Georgia. I worked on conflict prevention with the United Nations Development Programme’s Georgia office. Conflict prevention was all the rage back then. It was a kind of age of reason.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
themoscowtimes.com | Almut Rochowanski
In late 2005, I was sitting at a conference table in Washington with a group of young people from Chechnya. They were trying to win support for the scholarship program that had brought them from their war-torn homeland to universities in Europe. They were meeting with representatives from think tanks and grant-making foundations who mostly talked among themselves, since the Chechen students didn’t really speak English.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
hechoencalifornia1010.com | Almut Rochowanski
Who is responsible for the violent mob attack on passengers arriving from Israel at Makhachkala airport? Is it sinister, imported fundamentalist Islamic influence rising against the waning clout of traditional Islam? Ukrainian agents running psyops with Western funding? Russia’s history of pogroms against the Jews?
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
themoscowtimes.com | Almut Rochowanski
Who is responsible for the violent mob attack on passengers arriving from Israel at Makhachkala airport? Is it sinister, imported fundamentalist Islamic influence rising against the waning clout of traditional Islam? Ukrainian agents running psyops with Western funding? Russia’s history of pogroms against the Jews?
