The conundrums of forgiveness and apology require a sustained debate – founded on mutual recognition, regardless of ethnicity – that involves often neglected and maligned voices.
The Green Movement is fragmented. It lacks the kind of structure that the anti-Shah opposition had in 1979. It is local, sporadic, and does not have a central nervous system or a coherent ideology. However, this should be little comfort to the regime, because the longer the movement survives and holds together, the more it is likely to produce its own leaders.
Sarajevo has always been proud of its multiethnic culture and argues that this diversity is the root of the country’s strong contribution to world culture. But since the 1992-95 war, Bosnian Muslims, feeling abandoned by the West, have grown closer to Islam, and Sarajevo has slowly but surely lost its multiethnic image.
RFE/RL correspondent Venera Djumataeva says Kyrgyzstan's interim leadership knows that it doesn't have much time to prove to the people of Kyrgyzstan that they are different.
The Azerbaijani presidential administration's Novruz Mammadov argues that perceived attempts to pressure Ankara to abandon Azerbaijan are shortsighted and likely to backfire.
Pakistan's top army commander has apologized for the deaths of over 60 civilians in an air strike in a remote tribal region. The gesture is commendable, but does little to stem the growing anger against the military and the government.
With his strides toward a gentler Islam, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is leading the way back from the disaster into which Wahhabism and its twin, Khomeinism, threaten to lead the world.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was designed to deliver justice. But many war crimes victims want it to provide therapy as well.
Russia is rightly worried about the impact of the drug war in Afghanistan -- but its proposals have received little attention from the EU and NATO.
The last time Ukraine faced a slide toward authoritarianism led by the president, in 2004, the opposition united to counteract it. Can the opposition do the same this time around?
Unless there is a genuine effort to understand the roots of the crisis in Afghanistan and solve it in accordance with local traditions, it will be almost impossible to convince pro-Taliban fighters to lay down their weapons.
Washington appears to counter messages sent by Russian politicians and experts, mostly through informal channels, that the Obama administration does not really care about Georgia, and so the latter should deal with Russia on its own.
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