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About Sabine Freizer

Sabine Freizer is Caucasus Project Director of the International Crisis Group, based in Tbilisi.

Articles by Sabine Freizer

Thursday 14th December

Nagorno-Karabakh: between vote and reality

Sabine Freizer, 14 December 2006
Nagorno-Karabakh has followed Transdniestria and South Ossetia in holding an independence referendum. But democracy in these "non-recognised entities" is not so simple, reports Sabine Freizer of the International Crisis Group.
Wednesday 30th November

Armenia's emptying democracy

Sabine Freizer, 30 November 2005
Armenia’s constitutional referendum reveals a flawed political system ruling over disaffected citizens whose faith in western-sponsored democracy is being sorely tested, reports Sabine Freizer in Yerevan.
Tuesday 8th November

Azerbaijan's unfinished election

Sabine Freizer, 8 November 2005
Ilham Aliev’s ruling party declared victory before the votes were counted, but the opposition can still challenge some of its fraudulent results, reports the International Crisis Group’s Sabine Freizer in Baku.
Wednesday 31st March

Midnight in Tashkent

Sabine Freizer, 31 March 2004
A surge of anti-state violence in Uzbekistan suggests that the policies of the autocratic Tashkent regime and the attitude of its international sponsors are alike in urgent need of reform.
Thursday 12th February

The pillars of Georgia's political transition

Sabine Freizer, 12 February 2004
After the “rose revolution”, how will Georgia’s leaders cope with their difficult legacy – endemic corruption, internal schisms, geopolitical pressures? An experienced political analyst recently in Tbilisi maps the strategic options facing the south Caucasian state’s new president, Mikhail Saakashvili.
Friday 5th December

Dynasty and democracy in Azerbaijan

Sabine Freizer, 5 December 2003

A state governed by a closed elite, its rule enforced by brutality, legitimated by corrupt elections and perpetuated by nepotism. Will the recent pattern of Azerbaijan’s politics be reinforced by forthcoming elections across central Asia?
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