Radio Free Europe/Radio LIberty, 4 April 2014 RFE/RL's Frud Bezhan quotes AAN's Martine van Bijlert in his pre-election article: Martine van Bijlert, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, an independent research organization in Kabul, says that with no clear favorite among the three leading candidates, the election is expected to be the most open and […]
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ZDF (German TV), 4 April 2014 Background explainer interview (in German) with AAN's Thomas Ruttig for the upcoming elections.
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Neues Deutschland, 4 April 2014 Article by AAN's Thomas Ruttig, explaining the constellation for the succession of Afghan president Hamed Karzai (in German).
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Te Interesa (Spain), 4 April 2014 Interview (in Spanish) with AAN's Thomas Ruttig about the situation of women ahead of Afghanistan's presidential elections.
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Tiscali (Italy), 4 April 2014 Watch AAN's Kate Clark in a video on this Italian video news channel comenting on the new killing of two foreign journalists in Afghanistan: L'analista Kate Clark, direttore dell'Afghanistan analyst network, è molto pessimista sulla correttezza del processo elettorale. "Ci saranno brogli. Ci saranno nei seggi elettorali e al momento […]
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SRF (Swiss radio), 4 April 2014 AAN's Martine van Bijlert is quoted on voting patterns in Kandahar in 2009 and 2014 here: Damals waren laut Schätzungen 40 Prozent aller Stimmen aus Kandahar gefälscht – zugunsten von Hamid Karzai, wie Martine van Bijlert vom Afghan Analyst Network sagt, einer Denkfabrik in Kabul. Lokale Anführer hätten die […]
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Deutschlandradio, 4 April 2014 Interview with AAN's Thomas Ruttig about how democratic the upcoming Afghan election are (see orange-coloured box).
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The Christian Science Monitor, 4 April, 2014 AAN's Borhan Osman quoted on the capability of Taliban to outwrestle the Afghan government: “The increase in ‘ground engagements’ in 2013 … would count as a serious achievement for the insurgents only if it translated into proportional strategic gains,” wrote Borhan Osman last week, in an Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) […]
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Deutsche Welle, 4 April 2014 In the article on the German political parties' first assessments of the Afghan elections, also AAN's Thomas Ruttig is quoted as saying that the failure of the Taleban to significantly disturb the election day can be interpreted as weakness but also as an attempt not to seek confrontation with the prospective […]
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Kölner Stadtanzeiger (Germany), 4 April 2014 Pre-election interview (in German) with AAN's Thomas Ruttig.
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Inforadio Brandenburg, 4 April 2014 Liisten to a live-Interview (in German) with AAN's Thomas Ruttig, on the democratic content of the upcoming elections.
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Die Welt (Germany), 4 April 2014 The German right-wing newspaper has a short quote of the "experts group Afghan [sic] Analysts Network", saying that we predicted a "very chaotic election process".
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