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Hoesli, Eric
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According to Eric Hoesli, Europe's future is at stake in Caucasia
"For me, Caucasia is clearly one of the most important countries for Europe's future in the years to come", explains Eric Hoesli, a Swiss journalist and Caucasia specialist, to Maroun Lakabi. It is situated on the fault lines of at least three conflicts. There is the energy conflict [around hydrocarbons], i.e. who is to control supplies and transit? There is the Islam-Christian divide, which we know will be fundamental in the future. The third fracture is Russia facing Europe. Caucasia is in the midst of these three problems. What will the chemistry, the combination of these three factors be? For me, what is going on there is like an enthralling saga."
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Boris Yeltsin - a democrat of transition
In an interview conducted by Stéphane Brussard, Eric Hoesli, expert on Russia, puts two radically different perceptions of the late Yeltsin into perspective. "For westerners, he was the first president of a democratic Russia, the one who brought several freedoms and allowed a return of market forces through a process of liberalisation. For the Russians, however, he is the symbol of the nightmare years, of the collapse of the economy and the cataclysmic collapse of the empire. He is synonymous with national humiliation. ... He was carried by History, which gave him a role that nobody could really have played properly because the upheaval was so great. He was not able to guarantee the transition. At times he followed the movement, at times he sinned through optimism, at times through naivety. With him, Russia was not strong enough to resist the outside world. It lost its international standing and made enormous concessions: concerning NATO enlargement to the east and the Balkans."
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