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

By: Mamuka Tsereteli

Abkhaz Incident Opens Up New Vista In Georgia Conflict

EU observers have not been able to enter the breakaway regions since the war with Russia.

Russia’s plan in Abkhazia worries Nato

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

New hope for Georgia

Today’s alliance with the US will help ensure the sovereignty of Georgia in the face of Russian aggression

Eka Tkeshelashvili
guardian.co.uk

Stronger Georgian democracy emerges from ashes of war

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 official decisions.

Marching off to cyberwar

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

Georgia Acted in Self-Defense

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?

Meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers - NATO HQ, Brussels

Final communiqué

Meeting of the North Atlantic Council

at the level of Foreign Ministers

held at NATO Headquarters, Brussels

2-3 Dec. 2008 - NATO

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

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 will be disseminated soon. All testimony to the Parliament’s committee is available at a special website of the Georgian Parliament:

Georgia calls on EU for independent inquiry into war

Luke Harding in Moscow

Wednesday November 19 2008 00.01 GMT

The Guardian
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A Russian soldier walks past destroyed Georgian tanks in the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali during August. Photograph: Denis Sinyakov/Reuters