The OSCE summit held in Astana in early December 2010 crossed out talks on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and drew closer another war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Though President Ilham Aliyev and his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan were expected to continue negotiating Karabakh settlement on the sidelines of the summit, the meeting did not take place. Read more

The Kurdish issue, particularly the matter of founding a homeland for Kurds, has complicated efforts to stabilize a situation in Iraq. Recently, there is growing concern among international experts that the Kurdish issue could become a source of tension, and possibly conflict in the South Caucasus. Read more

In the newly independent countries who declared of building democratic society following the collapse of the Soviet Union, thread for state terrorism might have appeared as intentional directing the population of these countries to the wrong direction aimed at realisation of militarist-agressive plans as well as groundless territorial claims on the neighbouring states. Read more