Crisis in the Caucasus - 2008 The Russian / Georgian Conflict and its Impact on Azerbaijan Opinions Worth Considering.... Paul Goble Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec - 2008 Jan - 2009 November 2008 - Daily Blog from Window on Eurasia  Pale yellow color designates events directly related to Azerbaijan Nov 2 Shorts for November 2 - Georgian Events   Shorts for November 2 - Non-Georgian Events Nov 3 Tehran - with Moscow's Backing - Seeks to Expand its Role in the Caucasus   Pro-Putin Youth Group Takes Positions It Earlier Denounced as Fascist  Nov 5 Tatar Nationalists Ask UN to Condemn 1921 Famine as Genocide   Russian Dissenters Now Using Tactics of Soviet Dissidents, Igor Kon Says Nov 6 Russia and Europe Must Unite to Resist US and China, Moscow Analysts Say   Moscow Lashes Out at Poland for Warsaw's Assistance to Georgia But Its Real Target is the West Nov 7 Georgian Opposition Seeks 'Peaceful' Ouster of Saakashvili But Faces Uphill Fight   November 7th Must Be Recalled Not as a Triumph but as a Tragedy, Not for Its Victors but Because of Its Victims Nov 8 Shorts for November 8 ­ Georgian Events Nov 10  Sarkozy Plan Does Not Restore Status Quo Ante in Georgia Whatever Anyone Thinks, Moscow Analyst Says Nov 11  Russian Nationalists Fear Rise of Obama-Like Leader in Their Country Nov 13 Russia's New Growth Industry - Pawnshops Nov 14  Toward a Dangerous New Era of Partially Recognized States in the Post-Soviet Space?   Russian Military Boards Increasingly Violate Rights of Draftees Nov 16  Financial Crisis Provoking Regionalist and Separatist Challenges to Moscow Nov 17 Financial Crisis Creating Problems for Russia's Orthodox, Muslim and Jewish Leaders Nov 18 Russians React to IMF Warning that Unemployed Migrants May Turn to Crime   'Falling Oil Prices are Saving the World from Russia's Ambitions,' Moscow Analysts Say  Nov 19 Medvedev Asserts Nearly Unlimited Right to Revise the Russian Constitution   Moscow Prepares to Dismiss Four Prominent Regional Leaders   Noose Tightens Around Ingushetia's Zyazikov Figuratively and Literally  Nov 20 A Return to Higher Oil Prices Alone Will Not Stabilize Russia, Moscow Experts Say   Was There Another Yalta at Nice?   Major Faiths in Russia Suffer from 'Cadres Hunger'  Nov 21 Uzbek History Textbook Denounces Soviet Totalitarianism But Downplays Popular Movements in Uzbekistan   Kyrgyzstan Expands Efforts to Protect its Co-Nationals in Russia   Russians' Experience with Soviet Lines Blocks Rise of Civil Society Today Nov 22  Russian Groups Intended to Promote Law and Order in Fact Undermine It   Shorts for November 22 - Georgian Events   Shorts for November 22 - Non-Georgian Items Nov 24  Could the Disappearing Aral Sea Become Geopolitcally the New Caspian?   Putin's Russia Increasing Resembles Brezhnev's Soviet Union   How Stalin Built a Terror-Based 'Power Vertical'  Nov 26 Circassians Call for Single Circassian Republic in North Caucasus   A Saudi Mosque in Moscow in Exchange for a Russian Church in Mecca?   Putin Restored 'Stalinist Mechanism of Rule' in Modernized Form, Moscow Analyst Says Nov 27  Moscow Proposes Building 'Super Canal' from Arctic to Persian Gulf   Some Russians-Christians and Communists-Venerate Icon of Stalin   Economic Crisis Claims Another Victim: Putin's Regional Amalgamation Plan Nov 28 'Novaya Gazeta' Admits Dropping Agentura.ru will Affect Coverage of Russian Security Services Kyiv's Focus on Stalin-Era Famine Leads Russians and Kazakhs to Ask Why Their Governments Don't Ethnic Russians Now a Minority in Almost a Third of Country's Federal Units, MVD Says Nov 29  Shorts for November 29 - Georgian Events   Shorts for November 29 - Non-Georgian Events Back to Goble Index Back to Crisis in the Caucasus - Index AI Home Page | Magazine Choice | Topics | Store | Contact us