#georgie

Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan: Between Russia and the West
http://fpc.org.uk/articles/607

Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan: Between Russia and the West

By Dr Kevork Oskanian.

Since their independence, the three South Caucasian states have come to adopt widely divergent strategic responses to the complex structural realities underlying their region’s security landscape. Following the 2003 Rose Revolution, Georgia became unequivocally pro-Western: the goals of EU and NATO integration were firmly inscribed in two National Security Concepts, adopted in 2006 and 2011, which were recently confirmed in a rare bi-partisan parliamentary resolution uniting the otherwise fractious supporters of President Saakashvili and Prime Minister Ivanishvili.

#caucase #arménie #azerbaidjan #géorgie #russie #europe

The FINANCIAL - Madneuli Spending 1.2 Million GEL on CSR in 2011

C’est une mine de cuivre, or et argent que nous avions inspectée lorsque nous étions au PNUE (il y a une mention dans le film documentaire « voyage au centre de la carte »). L’article raconte ici qu’ils dépensent une fortune en CSR. Nous somme bien placé pour savoir que c’est complètement bullshit.

http://www.finchannel.com/news_flash/Corporate_Social_Responsibility/76869_Madneuli_Spending_1.2_Million_GEL_on_CSR_in_2011

The FINANCIAL — Madneuli mining company, which is one of the largest contributors of Georgian export (10%), spent up to 1 million GEL on Corporate Social Responsibility activities in 2010. In the next year the company will be spending even more - 1.2 million GEL - on different activities related to the sponsorship of sports events, concerts, arts, exhibitions, charity, etc.

#georgie #caucase #madneuli #environnement

Les aérophones, instruments de musique caucasiens : duduk, balaban, duduki, nay ou ney ...

C’est presque de l’ethno-musique... Mais bon. Cette musique résonne d’émouvants souvenirs de ma période caucasienne, j’archive cette page en la partageant avec ceux qui ici, auront le temps d’écouter attentivement le son d’un aérophone géorgien... De mon point de vue c’est magnifique.

Arrivé jusqu’à nos oreille grâce à la liste [monde.caucasien]

http://www.colisee.org/article.php?id_article=4560

Les aérophones, instruments de musique caucasiens : duduk, balaban, duduki, nay ou ney ...

jeudi 14 mars 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omkQY31cROE

Duduk en Arménie, balaban en Azerbaïdjan, duduki en Géorgie, nay ou ney en Turquie et au Kurdistan, également joué par les Perses et les Arabes, les aérophones caractérisent la musique caucasienne : plusieurs peuples s’en attribuent la paternité.

On parle d’aérophone lorsqu’il s’agit d’instrument fonctionnant avec de l’air, non pas tant parce qu’on y souffle, comme c’est le cas la plupart du temps, mais bien parce que la matière sonore vibrante est l’air.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_TQ_Sm4PI

#musique #ethno-musique #caucase #aeménie #géorgie

Géopolitique du ##Caucase : irrédentisme, instabilité et corridors | Philippe Rekacewicz
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/corridors

Carte extraite de l’Atlas « Mondes émergents » du Monde diplomatique. / #Arménie, #Azerbaïdjan, Caucase, #Géorgie, #Russie, Matières premières - Caucase / Arménie, Azerbaïdjan, Caucase, Géorgie, Russie, Matières premières - Caucase

#Matières_premières

Le cyberespion russe espionné | Pierre Alonso
http://owni.fr/2012/11/02/le-cyberespion-russe-espionne

Tel est espionné qui croyait cyberespionner. Un pirate, travaillant visiblement pour le gouvernement russe, a été identifié par les autorités géorgiennes, cible de ses attaques depuis mars 2011. Histoire de le faire savoir, la Géorgie a publié les photos du cyberespion.

#Barbouzeries #Pouvoirs #Récit #cyberattaque #cyberespionnage #cyberguerre #espionnage #géorgie #malware #russie

Géorgie : De nouveaux députés en poste, d’anciens ministres en fuite - REGARD SUR L’EST

http://www.regard-est.com/home/breves.php?idp=1574
Par Sophie Tournon

Le 10 octobre, le gouvernement géorgien a donné sa démission au Président Mikheil Saakachvili, qui a accepté la nouvelle équipe proposée par son adversaire politique Bidzina Ivanichvili, après sa victoire aux législatives. Ce dernier, citoyen français, s’est vu rendre par le Président sa citoyenneté géorgienne un an après en avoir été déchu. Il peut désormais devenir chef du gouvernement, inaugurant de fait la cohabitation politique avec le Président.

#géorgie #caucase

Post-Election Georgia: Turning the Dream of Peace Into Reality?

http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/172-general/51989-post-election-georgia-turning-the-dream-of-peace-into-reality-.h

Rachel Clogg
Open Democracy
October 12, 2012

Since Georgia’s independence from the USSR in 1989, autonomy movements in two regions - Abkhazia and South Ossetia - have threatened to break up the new country. After more than two decades of political upheaval, violent conflicts and stunted economic growth, Georgia’s recent parliamentary elections have been described as the country’s first peaceful transition of power. The oppositional “Georgian Dream Coalition” led by billionaire businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili’s won the majority of seats. In addition to economic stimulus, the coalition will focus on finding political solutions to the enduring regional conflicts. Will the newly elected government be able to “translate positive noises into action”?

For those of us working toward peace in the South Caucasus, recent events in Georgia have brought a renewed sense of possibility. Political upheaval, large populations of displaced people, and stunted economic growth have characterised the decades since violent conflicts broke out following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Peace processes in the Caucasus have swung between dialogue and deadlock, with periods of heightened tension or war, and the ever-present risk of renewed violence.

While peacebuilders have persevered with their efforts at building understanding across conflict divides and creating conditions for conflict transformation, many people have been cautious in their assessments of what is possible. If the newly elected government proves able to translate positive noises into action, those viewpoints may need to be revisited.

#georgie #caucase #europe

GEORGIA : FACES OF RESISTANCE : Bout

http://georgieresistance.blogspot.fr/2012/09/boutique-shop.html
DVD du film documentaire GEORGIE : VISAGES DE RESISTANCE

Géorgie : Visages de Résistance est un long-métrage documentaire indépendant réalisé par Mery Zourabichvili et Stefan Garel.
 


Un voyage à la rencontre du peuple géorgien et de sa longue et protéiforme tradition de résistance.
 


Prix du meilleur documentaire au Deep Fried Field Festival 2011

Prix : 12 EUR

Réalisation : Mery Zourabichvili, Stefan Garel
Format : PAL
Région : 0 (toutes régions)
Langues : Géorgien, anglais, français / sous-titres français
Date de sortie DVD : 20 septembre 2012
Durée : 66 mn
Autorisation SDRM 3953

#georgie #caucase

Georgia is Having a Democratic Counterrevolution

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

http://carnegieendowment.org/2012/10/02/georgia-is-having-democratic-counterrevolution/dyjg
Thomas de Waal Bloomberg, October 2, 2012

In Georgia today they are talking about the counterrevolution. The Oct. 1 parliamentary election in Georgia produced the kind of result that we don’t expect from elections in post- Soviet countries. The opposition won. The governing party of Mikheil Saakashvili, who came to power in the country’s peaceful Rose Revolution of 2003, has been defeated by the Georgian Dream coalition, led by Georgia’s wealthiest man, Bidzina Ivanishvili.

This is the first time in 20 years that Georgia — or indeed any of its post-Soviet neighbors — has seen political change through the ballot box rather than from crowds on the streets, and Georgia should be congratulated for that. We should be clear that this wasn’t an election fought by European rules: Saakashvili and his government did everything in their power to ensure a victory, deploying state resources and a loyal media to buttress support for the ruling party.

Yet, under heavy Western pressure, they allowed the opposition to compete. To his credit, Saakashvili recognized a result that went against him.

Broadly speaking, Saakashvili and his government lost for two reasons. Over the past nine years they have made impressive reforms, modernizing the bureaucracy, eliminating petty corruption and tackling organized crime.

#géorgie #caucase #russie #élection

A Crucial Election in Georgia - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

http://carnegieendowment.org/2012/09/11/crucial-election-in-georgia/drlp

Thomas de Waal September 11, 2012

Georgia Elections Georgia’s parliamentary election on October 1 will be its most important since the disputed polls of 2003 which led to the Rose Revolution and the subsequent election of Mikheil Saakashvili as president. The governing party, the United National Movement (UNM), is seeking to win a majority for a third time. The emergence of the Georgian Dream coalition led by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili poses the most credible challenge yet to the elite that has governed Georgia for more than eight years.

#géorgie #caucase #élections #saakashvili

Reçu de Jean-Marie Chauvier

Liste Géorgie
Répression en Géorgie
Message reçu de Tbilisi (à vérifier)

As for the events we underwent after May 26, it’s a human tragedy, there is a sad record of killings, other losses, of intense suffering. We even are not fully aware of what indeed happened, as officials of course try to hide the facts, and may be you know more than we here. One thing is very clear, to what extent Burjanadze’s meeting were not supported by the most part of our society, and we don’t think that her way is right or she is clean, however we think that government not only suppressed this protest ,but it was a example of showing its power and message to people who are not with them and have opposing opinion will be killed or hit, beaten, even when they are fell down and hands tied. There are some cases of raping of young boys, killed young man, who was found somewhere in the park after two days of the raid, tortured and the officials say that he was dead by exident, it’s very cynic, isn’t it. every day we get a new facts of violations and I think they must be punished hardly for the crime they cottited. Since yesterday there are a peaceful demonstrations of the people, not leaders, not politicians, just simple citizens with demands to set up a commission to investigate all the facts. In my views this protesting latent meetings and demonstrations must be continued to emerge out of a guilty, state criminals.

#géorgie #caucase #droitshumains

BBC News - Georgia’s ’secret’ arsenic village
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13538604

Arsenic mines and factories in Georgia abandoned after the fall of the Soviet Union are leaking toxic chemicals, and scientific studies show high rates of illness in local children.

#industrie #chimie #pollution #Géorgie

Revolution U - By Tina Rosenberg | Foreign Policy
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/16/revolution_u

Très intéressant ; la #non-violence comme tactique, ça ne s’improvise pas, mais ça peut s’enseigner ; on connaît les précurseurs, de Gandhi à la lutte anti-#apartheid, et les militants d’aujourd’hui (#Egypte...)

Les anciens d’Otpor (#Serbie) ont formé CANVAS :

Center for Applied NonViolent Action and Strategies, an organization run by young Serbs who had cut their teeth in the late 1990s student uprising against Slobodan Milosevic. After ousting him, they embarked on the ambitious project of figuring out how to translate their success to other countries.

Ils font maintenant des ateliers de formation pour des militants de 50 pays. L’article raconte par le menu un de ces ateliers en #Birmanie, mais cite aussi le #Liban, la #Georgie, etc.