updated Mon. June 24, 2024
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WTVA
March 30, 2018
Facts: The conflict centered on South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two "breakaway provinces" in Georgia. They are officially part of Georgia, but have separate, unrecognized governments. Abkhazia and South Ossetia are supported by Russia. During the five-day conflict, 170 servicemen, 14 policemen, and 228Ãâà...
The Blue Review
March 25, 2018
Rounding out the bottom of the list were places like the Jewish autonomous oblast and the Sakha Republic in Yakutia – a place at the forefront of Russia's economic stagnation, the ills of climate change, and all-but forgotten by the Western elites in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Sakha is likely the epicenter ofÃâà...
AzerNews
March 25, 2018
The headlines are very important since they dictate number of people reading the story, when social media could massively spread it out,” the article reads. Valiyev wrote that firstly, Bako Sahakyan, was born in Khankendi, then the central city of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) of Azerbaijan.
News.Az
March 25, 2018
The first Secretary of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast lost his post in February of 1988 after extraordinary session of People's Deputies of this region appealed to the Supreme Soviets of the Armenian SSR, Azerbaijani SSR and the USSR with a request to consider and agree to transfer theÃâà...
Modern Diplomacy
March 24, 2018
... central city of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) of Azerbaijan. In 1988, before becoming the activists of the separatist movement of Nagorno-Karabakh, Bako Sahakyan held different positions in NKAO. In 1990, he joined Nagorno-Karabakh separatist military movement against Azerbaijan.
The Jamestown Foundation
March 20, 2018
In particular, the multifaceted psychological profile–building experiment was first conducted in the Amur, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai. The defense ministry noted that, in accordance with the results obtained by military psychologists and sociologists, 98 percent of soldiers (23,000Ãâà...
Reliefweb
March 19, 2018
The region of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast has a smaller population than the other regions, but has a relatively high rate of childhood stunting. The study provides guidance on how the Tajik authorities could address the challenge of childhood malnutrition and stunting. For example, nutritionÃâà...
EurasiaNet
March 14, 2018
Calls for increased autonomy from community leaders in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast, or GBAO, a high-altitude region thinly populated by the Pamiri people, who are adherents of the Ismaili branch of Shia Islam, began to be heard in the early 1990s. During the civil war of the 1990s, militiasÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 14, 2018
10 surgeons, anesthetists and trauma doctors from hospitals located in areas potentially prone to emergencies or contaminated by mines and unexploded ordnance in Khatlon and Soughd regions, Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) and Dushanbe outskirts took part in a Regional Seminar onÃâà...
Times of Central Asia
March 14, 2018
Following a 10-day research trip, Crisis Group has found Tajikistan's little known and remote eastern territory of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) to be at the nexus of significant security problems, including Uighur unrest in China's Xinjiang region, Afghanistan's war and opium trafficking, andÃâà...
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