Chancellor Schuessel (L) with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, 2 December 2005 (epa) 1 January 2006 -- With the New Year, Austria has taken over the rotating presidency of the European Union and Belgium has assumed the leadership of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev (epa) 31 December 2005 -- Azerbaijan is today marking the sixteenth anniversary of the day that residents of the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan tore down part of its border with Iran and crossed the Araks River to visit relatives in Iran.
A fighter in Nagorno-Karabakh (file photo) (AFP) 30 December 2005 -- Belgium says it will use its upcoming presidency of the OSCE to tackle "frozen" conflicts in the Caucasus region.
The new banknotes were designed by the Austrian who designed the euro (RFE/RL) 29 December 2005 -- Azerbaijan's central bank said today that a reweighted currency with a new design will begin circulating on New Year's Day.
(RFE/RL) 28 December 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Azerbaijan's state carrier says flight instrument failure may have caused the crash of one of its planes that killed all 23 people on board last week.
(RFE/RL) 26 December 2005 -- Azerbaijan's state carrier has suspended flights by its one remaining Ukrainian-made An-140 plane.
(RFE/RL) 25 December 2005 -- Reports say investigators working at the scene of a plane crash in Azerbaijan have found the plane's flight recorders.
<p>24 December 2005 -- An official with Azerbaijan's national airline says investigators are looking at a control-system failure as the most probable cause of the fatal crash of one of its planes late yesterday along the Caspian Sea shoreline.</p>
24 December 2005 -- The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) says 123 people have been killed by land mines near the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh since a 1994 truce ended a six-year conflict between ethnic Armenian and Azerbaijani forces.
President George W. Bush launched his second term with an inauguration speech that dedicated U.S. foreign policy to spreading freedom and democracy in the world, and Washington duly set in motion new efforts to stir democratic change, especially in the Middle East. But, so far, the results have been mixed, with developments in the former Soviet Union highlighting the challenges facing the administration.
Monitoring missions in recent years have drawn attention to flawed elections and the corrupt regimes that conduct them. That's what happened in Georgia in 2003 and in Ukraine in 2004. But in 2005, Western election observers' criticism of polls in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan seemed to fall on deaf ears.
Little visible progress was made in 2005 toward resolving any of the Caucasus's seemingly intractable ethno-territorial conflicts.
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