#Netanyahu: Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews - Israel News - Haaretz.com
►https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/netanyahu-absolves-hitler-of-guilt-1.5411578
Prime minister tells World Zionist Congress that Hitler only wanted to expel the Jews, but Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti convinced him to exterminate them, a claim that was rejected by most accepted Holocaust scholars.
@aude_v plutôt #révisionnisme. Et ce truc-là est décidément une très vieille lune, une sorte de fake news à l’ancienne. du coup #fake_news
Why the West Needs #Azerbaijan – Foreign Policy
▻http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/28/why-the-west-needs-azerbaijan
There are only three ways for energy and trade to flow overland between Asia and Europe: through Iran, through Russia, and through Azerbaijan. With relations between the West, Moscow, and Tehran in tatters, that leaves onlyone viable route for hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of trade: through the tiny Caspian Sea nation of Azerbaijan.
When you factor in Armenia’s occupation of almost one-fifth of Azerbaijan’s territory, all that is left is a narrow 60-mile-wide chokepoint for trade. We call this trade chokepoint the " #Ganja_Gap ” — named after Azerbaijan’s second largest city, Ganja, which sits in the middle of this narrow passage. And right now, the Russians hold enough influence over Azerbaijan’s rival neighbor Armenia to potentially reignite the bloody #Nagorno-Karabakh conflict of the late 1980s and early 1990s — giving them a dangerous opportunity to threaten the “Gap” itself.
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It is not just oil and gas pipelines that connect Europe with the heart of Asia. Fiber-optic cables linking Western Europe with the Caspian region also pass through the Ganja Gap. The second-longest European motorway, the E60, which connects Brest, France, on the Atlantic coast with Irkeshtam, Kyrgyzstan, on the Chinese border, passes through the city of Ganja, as does the east-west rail link in the South Caucasus, the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway. These are set to become potentially vital connections.
The ongoing campaign in Afghanistan has also proven how important the Ganja Gap is for resupplying U.S. and NATO troops. At the peak of the war, more than one-third of U.S. nonlethal military supplies such as fuel, food, and clothing passed through the Ganja Gap either overland or in the air.
The South Caucasus – a conflict zone
Russia uses frozen conflicts to keep the South Caucasus under strategic control
Accordingly, Moscow will not allow military or political solutions to territorial disputes
Kremlin will look to keep hot spots smoldering and continue creeping annexation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia
Even after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, control of the South Caucasus remains a strategic priority for Russia. Since the end of the 18th century, Moscow has been seeking unfettered access to the Mediterranean from ports on the Black Sea. The precondition for this is to hold a position of strength against Turkey.
The restoration of independence to the South Caucasus states in the early 1990s was accompanied by armed conflicts that have yet to be resolved. Following the brief Russo-Georgian war in August 2008, the separatist enclaves of Abkhazia and South Ossetia pulled further away from Georgia and placed themselves under the Kremlin’s political and military protection, attempting to secure their status as independent states.
▻https://www.gisreportsonline.com/the-south-caucasus-a-conflict-zone,defense,2025,report.html
#Caucase #conflit #cartographie #visualisation
cc @reka
Managing Conflict and Integration in the South Caucasus: A Challenge for the European Union
CASCADE Policy Brief, Neil Melvin and Giulia Prelz Oltramonti
31 October 2015.
▻http://www.cascade-caucasus.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/D7.1-Conflict-and-integration.pdf
In 2014–15, the South Caucasus entered a new phase of its post-Soviet development. Georgia’s conclusion of an Association Agreement with the European Union (EU) in June 2014 and Armenia’s accession to the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union in January 2015 were the culmination of a decade of efforts to engage the South Caucasus with parallel integration projects. Meanwhile resolving the conflicts in the South Caucasus remains a key issue for the region’s political stability and economic prosperity. In 2015–16, as the EU looks to reshape its role in the South Caucasus through reviews of its European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and its European Security Strategy (ESS), it will need to identify how it can formulate effective strategies to resolve the protracted conflicts in the absence of the offer of membership.
Azeri opposition holds rally as economy slows - Yahoo News UK
▻https://uk.news.yahoo.com/azeri-opposition-holds-rally-economy-slows-170128513--business.html
About 1,000 Azeris held a rally on Sunday to protest against rising prices and a crackdown on human rights as economic problems mount ahead of a parliamentary election this year in the oil-producing former Soviet republic.
Hit by the fall in global oil prices, the rouble’s drop against the dollar in neighbouring Russia and the separatist war in east Ukraine, the South Caucasus country devalued the manat currency in February.
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Protesters chanted “Freedom!”, “Resignation!”.
Two weeks ago, a similar rally attracted some 4,000 people.
▻http://www.science.gov.az/en/news.php?id=7029
Today, AR State Committee for Land and Cartography joint with Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences presented “National Atlas of the Republic of Azerbaijan” and “South Caucasus map of 1903” published pursuant to Mr. President’s Orders dated April 20, 2011 and April 18, 2012.
Opening the event deputy chairman of “National Atlas of the Republic of Azerbaijan” editorial board, president of ANAS acad. Akif Alizadeh informed about historical essence of the publication, and done fulfillments in its bringing up. Cartographic falsifications related in historical and geographic names and territorial integrity of the county are increased up to day, so, necessity of preventing these falsifications portrays in the Orders signed by Mr. President on the publication of “National Atlas of the Republic of Azerbaijan” and “South Caucasus map of 1903” dated April 20, 2011 and April 18, 2012, noted acad. Akif Alizadeh.
Appreciating National Atlas as a highly completed cartographic work embracing achievements of geography and cartography, president of ANAS stressed out that, publication of national atlases is one of the priority issues that cartography bodies face in several states: “Only states with strong scientific potential can be independently manage this task.”
Atlas of 444 pages and 19 chapters covers vital data and portrays life of Azerbaijan complexly. Here include agriculture, industry, education and other spheres as well as national wearing and meals. Particular chapter has been added to the atlas, taking into account declaring the 2015 “As a year of agriculture”, stated Akif Alizadeh.
Apparemment hélas, pas de ressources en ligne, pour aider à combattre les « falsifications » cartographiques et toponymiques (suivez mon regard,…)
Armenia: Customs Union Marks Great Leap Backward — Activists | EurasiaNet.org
▻http://www.eurasianet.org/node/68285
While President Serzh Sargsyan’s administration touts Armenia’s pending accession to the Russia-led Customs Union as likely to usher in an era of prosperity for the South Caucasus country, rights activists assert that when it comes to democratization, Customs Union membership means Yerevan will take “one step forward, two steps back.”
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/qppgbfarv1hsemr/armeniauniondouaniere.png
Recognising politics in unrecognised states:
20 years of enquiry into the de facto states
of the South Caucasus
LAURENCE BROERS
▻http://www.caucasus-survey.org/vol1-no1/art04.htm
De facto states in the South Caucasus have presented a range of theoretical and empirical challenges for both scholars and policy-makers for some 20 years. This article charts the trajectories of different concepts, theories and paradigms deployed over this period to understand de facto states in this region, and in particular their internal dynamics. It is argued that while external factors are central to the sustainability of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorny Karabakh, scholarship on these entities has increasingly over time asserted the relevance of their internal politics. The article discusses how over the last decade this analysis has increasingly conflicted with the revival of the region’s central state authorities, whose conceptual reading and policy repertoires vis-à-vis de facto states remain focused on their external support structures. The article finishes by discussing some of the implications of this disjunction for policies enacted towards de facto states of the region by both central state authorities and the international community.
The Winner is TAP: The EU’s Failed Policy in the South Caucasus
▻http://www.iai.it/content.asp?langid=2&contentid=962
Between the two competitors for the delivery of Azerbaijani gas to Europe Nabucco West and the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) the winner is the latter, a project designed to transport Caspian gas via Greece and Albania and across the Adriatic Sea to southern Italy. The EU welcomed the decision of the Shah Deniz consortium. Yet the political objective of the Southern Corridor was to diversify gas supply to Europe and reduce the energy dependence of some EU member states on Russia. With TAP as the winner, it is questionable whether the EU has truly met these goals. As for Azerbaijan, the selection of TAP can be viewed as a commercially sound decision and a political balancing act by Baku to gain access to European markets and to avoid angering the Kremlin. Yet this choice came only after President Alyev failed to convince the EU to take a clearer stance on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution process in exchange for Nabucco West. For its part, the EU has failed to be a credible actor in the region, able to defend its interests by diversifying energy supplies, decreasing the energy dependence of some member states on Russia and contributing to regional security in the South Caucasus.