the south ossetia crisis leading to military hostilities between russia and georgia has turned into one of the complicated crises in the caucasus and at the world level since the disintegration of the soviet :union:. this crisis should be considered as the harbinger of a new stage in the international relations arena in the transition from the cold war era. hence, it can be suggested that the c...

islamic republic of iran enjoys close and amicable relations with small and christian republic of armenia. on the contrary, the ties between iran and seemingly significant shia republic of azerbaijan are frayed. while tehran’s close relationship with yerevan is widely attributed to geographical and economic isolation of armenia, iran-azerbaijan unfriendly relations have stemmed from suspicion a...

ABSTRACT Isolates of Puccinia triticina collected from common wheat in the Central Asia countries of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan and the Caucasus countries of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia were tested for virulence to 20 isolines of Thatcher wheat with different leaf rust resistance genes and molecular genotype at 23 simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci. After clone corre...

The fall of Soviet Union and independence of republics of central Asia as well as South Caucasus have brought both chances and challenges for Iran. At first it seemed that Muslim republics, which broke from Soviet Union, might have brought great chances for Iran to promote her ideological claims and economic interests. Dreams of Islamic revolution in new independent central Asian republics invo...

The main objective of the article is to examine the challenges of EU Studies in the South Caucasus in accordance with in the process of European integration as exiting political and geopolitical strategies of the region can be considered as the platform and a kind or “need assessment” for the development and successful implementation of the EU Studies. A particular attention is paid to the obje...

More than a third of the European pool of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is fragmented into a number of subclades of haplogroup (hg) H, the most frequent hg throughout western Eurasia. Although there has been considerable recent progress in studying mitochondrial genome variation in Europe at the complete sequence resolution, little data of comparable resolution is so far available for regions...

view. in this paper, the question of influence in the south caucasus and europe :union: foreign policy . a. iran 's regional interests can be defined both in terms of cooperation or conflict , has developed the hypothesis that the objectives and activities of the :union: of europe in the caucasus show that not only the conflict of the conflict between the interests of and the there is no :...

after the soviet :union: in newly independent georgia, the location of his gate and called the caucasus since this position tremendous impact on how relations with russia and the west had in this country is a way to attack the topic georgian forces in south ossetia in 2008. md, the severe russian reaction to georgia's pro-west thought it had occurred, the incidence of and despite media eff...

The problems of weak state structures, including state territoriality, in the South Caucasus has highly influenced political developments and the building of a democratic state. This paper explains the difficulty of recovering statehood in the cases of Armenia and Georgia, both in the context of post–Soviet state transformation and post–conflict state-rebuilding. It argues that recovering state...