Il Manifesto, 19 October 2018 In this election primer by Giuliano Battiston for the respected Italian left-wing newspaper, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted as saying: «La retorica sui tanti candidati giovani è molto diffusa ma è poco fondata», ci spiega Thomas Ruttig, direttore dell’Afghanistan Analysts Network. «Temo che il prossimo parlamento possa essere peggiore dell’attuale: […]
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Blog of the Columbia Journal of International Affairs, 19 October 2018 Using many AAN dispatches as sources, Robert D. Crews – Professor of History at Stanford University, who specialises in Afghanistan, Central and South Asia, Russia, Islam, and Global History – analyses the impact that a growing young urban population and civil society will have on Afghanistan’s […]
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AFP/Tiroler Volkszeitung, 18 October 2018 A quote from AAN research and one from Thomas Ruttig, in this article in the Austrian daily (in German): „Der Betrug ist vorprogrammiert“, sagt ein westlicher Diplomat. Viele Wählerregistrierungen wurden offenbar anhand gefälschter Dokumente ausgestellt. So liegt die Zahl der registrierten Wähler in der Provinz Paktia bei 141 der vermuteten […]
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ARD-Tagesschau, 18 October 2018 A quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the website of Germany’s leading public TV channel’s prime time news (in German): Rasik war einer der einflussreichsten Männer in Kandahar. Afghanistan-Experte Thomas Ruttig von der Denkfabrik Afghanistan Analysts Network sagte, Rasik sei mehr als nur der Polizeichef von Kandahar gewesen. Insbesondere die Amerikaner […]
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Wall Street Journal, 18 October 2018 This article about the quality of Afghanistan#s upcoming election has a quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: “I think there’s some disillusionment about this kind of democracy,” said Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, referring to the political system put in place after 2001. “The interest of potential […]
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Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, 18 October 2018 This dossier of the Milano-based institute on the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Afghanistan, in Italian and English, contains a commentary of AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, “Afghanistan’s Election Dilemma.” Further contributions by Giuliano Battiston, Antonio Giustozzi, Claudio Bertolotti, Emanuele Giordana, Andrea Carati, Raffaello Pantucci, Frud Bezhan.
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AFP/Straits Times, 18 October 2018 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted in this news report about the Afghan elections, saying: “Most of the people I have been talking to [in Kabul] say they won’t go to vote, some even didn’t bother to register, and many said ‘we would love to vote if we knew the system […]
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Tageszeitung, 18 October 2018 Op-ed by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the Berlin daily, about the pre-election two-day campaign silence period. But tenth candidate killed, and fighting in 25 of the 34 provinces (in German).
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AFP/La Croix, 17 October 2018 A little ironic quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig that the cars and houses of certain Afghan parliament members could not have been paid from their salaries: “Je suis certain que leur salaire seul n’est pas suffisant pour payer toutes les maisons et les voitures qu’ils possèdent”, note ironique Thomas Ruttig, […]
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Gandhara, 17 October 2018 Listen to an audio of the latest episode in Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s AfPak File Podcast about the 20 October Afghan parliamentary elections, featuring Co-Director of Afghanistan Analysts Network Kate Clark, Former Afghan Ambassador to France and Canada Omar Samad and The Wilson Center Senior Associate for South Asia Michael Kugelman, and is […]
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AFP/Times of India, 17 October 2018 A short quote from AAN in this pre-election primer: Money, not altruism, was the key to getting elected in Afghanistan, said Thomas Ruttig, co-director of Afghanistan Analysts Network.
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Tageszeitung, 14 October 2018 Op-ed by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the Berlin daily, about Afghanistan’s parliamentary election campaign and the shortcomings in the election preparation that might inhibit its legitimacy (in German).
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