Archive for August 14th, 2008
Statement: Georgian Parliament Appeals To International Community
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Digest: The dangers of the safe route
Georgia’s pipelines to the West weren’t bombed but they remain vulnerable
IT’S not just the Russian-Georgian conflict that has made August such a rotten month for the West’s favourite oil pipeline. On August 5th a pumping station on the 1,100-mile (1,760km) Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline in eastern Turkey was set ablaze. The PKK Kurdish separatists claimed responsibility. →
Общественные инициативы: Обращение Общегражданского Движения Многонациональная Грузия
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Digest: Eurasia Daily Monitor: The Russian-Georgian War Was Preplanned In Moscow
The article was first published in Eurasia Daily Monitor on Thursday, August 14, 2008
Russian troops repair and improve a railroad in Abkhazia in June 2008 (AP).
Last week military tension in Georgia’s separatist region of South Ossetia escalated into all-out war. The Ossetian separatists were provoking a conflict to give the Russian military a pretext for direct intervention. Late in the evening of August 7, a heavy mortar bombardment of Georgian villages near the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali provoked Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to order a major assault. The night attack by Georgian troops outfitted with Western-made night-vision equipment flushed the Ossetian fighters out and Tskhinvali was overrun in the morning. To stop the Georgian offensive thousands of Russian troops with hundreds of pieces of armor invaded through the Roki tunnel and rushed forward. Russian jets began bombing Georgian military installations and cities (see EDM, August 7). →
Блог Олега Панфилова: В Поти российская армия уничтожает порт
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(Russian - Русский) Аналитика: Российские источники в украинском медиапространстве не сдают позиции
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Statement of the Georgian National Committee of the Helsinki Civil Assembly
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Statement: Medvedev: Moscow guarantees the status of Southern Ossetia
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News: Russian “peacekeepers” amd Ossetian paramilitaries are still in Gori
Russian “peacekeepers” amd Ossetian paramilitaries are still in Gori. Nevertheless it was announced that today they will transfer control over the city to the Georgian law enforcement. →
Analitycs: BBC: Winners and losers after Georgia conflict
There are some clear winners and losers in the conflict over South Ossetia - and the crisis has shown the need for a fresh start in relations between Russia and the West. →