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The Impact of the Russia-Georgia War on the South Caucasus Transportation Corridor

vlad — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:37:45 +0000

By: Mamuka Tsereteli Executive Summary The August 2008 war in the Caucasus revealed the new strategic realities that have emerged in the Black Sea / Caspian Region in recent years. These realities have been driven by overly ambitious Russian policies and have weakened Western strategic interests in the region. The conditions created immediately after the war appeared [...]

Abkhaz Incident Opens Up New Vista In Georgia Conflict

vlad — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:28:36 +0000

EU observers have not been able to enter the breakaway regions since the war with Russia. 01 March 04, 2009 By Ahto Lobjakas Irakli Bigvava, a 24-year-old Georgian, is at the center of a new dimension of the conflict simmering between Georgia and its separatist territories. Georgian officials say the young man fled last weekend from his village of Otobaia, [...]

Russia’s plan in Abkhazia worries Nato

vlad — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:49:27 +0000

Nato member states are concerned by Russia’s decision to build a naval base in the breakaway territory of Abkhazia By James Blitz in London, FT Published: January 29 2009 02:01 Nato member states are concerned by Russia’s decision to build a naval base in the breakaway territory of Abkhazia, a move which the alliance believes would further underline [...]

New hope for Georgia

nikita — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:38:26 +0000

Today’s alliance with the US will help ensure the sovereignty of Georgia in the face of Russian aggression Eka Tkeshelashvili guardian.co.uk The Georgian people will not quickly forget 2008. It was the year we became the first European country to be invaded by a neighbour since the second world war, an attack that killed hundreds and displaced tens [...]

Stronger Georgian democracy emerges from ashes of war

vlad — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:10:39 +0000

Telegraph By David Bakradze As the world continues to sort out the implications of Russia’s invasion of Georgia in August, it should note an important milestone that my country marked last week: For the first time in Georgia or anywhere in our region, a president testified before an independent parliamentary inquiry and was held to account for [...]

Marching off to cyberwar

nikita — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:49:25 +0000

The internet: Attacks launched over the internet on Estonia and Georgia highlight the difficulty of defining and dealing with “cyberwar” The Economist 04/12/2008 AS RUSSIAN tanks rolled into Georgia in August, another force was also mobilising—not in the physical world, but online. Russian nationalists (or indeed anyone else) who wished to take part in the attack on Georgia [...]

Georgia Acted in Self-Defense

vlad — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:59:43 +0000

WALL STREET JOURNAL Some people seem to misunderstand which country was invaded.By MIKHEIL SAAKASHVILI Since Russia invaded Georgia last August, the international community seems stuck on one question about how the war started: Did the Georgian military act irresponsibly to take control of Tskhinvali in the South Ossetia region of Georgia? This question has been pushed to the [...]

Meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers - NATO HQ, Brussels

vlad — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:06:44 +0000

Final communiqué Meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the level of Foreign Ministers held at NATO Headquarters, Brussels 2-3 Dec. 2008 - NATO 1. Founded on the enduring principle of the indivisibility of Allied security, NATO remains the essential forum for security consultations among the Allies of Europe and North America and the transatlantic framework for strong collective defence [...]

Key points of the Georgian Parliament’s Commission hearing on August’s war

vlad — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:11:21 +0000

28 of November, President Saakashvili testified for five hours before the Georgian Parliament’s Ad hoc Commission investigating the origin and conduct of August’s war. Below are the key points of the President’s testimony, as summarized by Civil Georgia (an independent newssite), with minor corrections for accuracy. A full, unedited, English-language translation of the President’s testimony [...]

Georgia calls on EU for independent inquiry into war

vlad — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:24:24 +0000

Luke Harding in Moscow Wednesday November 19 2008 00.01 GMT The Guardian Article history A Russian soldier walks past destroyed Georgian tanks in the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali during August. Photograph: Denis Sinyakov/Reuters Georgia yesterday called for an independent inquiry into who started the war between it and Russia in August; amid claims by the Kremlin that the western [...]