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Religious Repression and Antiwesternism in Kyrgyzstan

Askarbek Mambetaliev

Recent legislation to tackle religious extremism in Kyrgystan is a pretext for targetting Evangelicals and religious minorities. State propaganda has created popular hostility towards non-Muslims. Tackling this situation requires inclusive rhetoric from local leaders and the curbing of anti-westernism. READ MORE

"Synergy, symmetry, strategy"

Press release

Greek OSCE Chair pledges to be honest broker, forge stronger ties among States in time of challenge.

 

The OSCE is well placed to address Europe's changing geopolitical challenges in a time marked by crises, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis, said today in her first address to the Organization's 56 participating States. READ MORE