Archive for August 19th, 2008
Public Initiate: Kyivans gathered more than a tonne of humanitarian aid for Georgia
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Latest news: Timeline of Events in the Russians Invasion & Occupation of Georgia
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19 AUGUST
Digest: Financial Times on NATO crisis meeting in Brussels
In the latest expression of western anger over Russia’s assault to drive Georgian forces from South Ossetia and another separatist region, Abkhazia, Nato foreign ministers told Moscow to expect a deterioration in relations. →
Economist: No more business as usual?
NATO foreign ministers gathered in Brussels on Tuesday August 19th for an emergency summit, called by America, to discuss what to do next about Georgia and Russia. →
BBC: Nato cools relations with Russia
The declaration followed talks in Brussels about the conflict between Moscow and Tbilisi over Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia. →
FT: Kiev debt costs rise over Moscow worries
The cost of insuring Ukraine’s debt against restructuring or default rose to its highest since the 2004 Orange Revolution on Tuesday, as investors fretted that the Kremlin’s spat with the west could spill over into a vast country of 46m people that straddles the divide between a resurgent Russia and the European Union. →
New York Times: Russia Blockades Port in Georgia and Seizes Soldiers
Russia showed the first signs of drawing down at least some of its troops in Georgia on Tuesday, but in a pointed reminder of their continued grip on the country, its forces bound and blindfolded 21 Georgian soldiers at the Black Sea port of Poti on Tuesday, displaying them along with five seized American Humvees. →
The New York Times: NATO Ministers Hold Talks on Georgia
BRUSSELS — NATO foreign ministers held an emergency meeting here Tuesday, seeking a response to the Russian invasion of Georgia and a way to show that the alliance can stand up to Moscow. →
CNN: NATO to meet over Russia-Georgia crisis
CNN) — Foreign ministers from NATO members are gathering in Belgium for a Tuesday emergency meeting over the crisis between Russia and Georgia which will also involve U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
A deadline for Russian troops to withdraw from Georgia has come and gone, leaving NATO frustrated and worried.
FT: Nato tells Russia: no ‘new line’ in Europe
Nato warned Russia on Tuesday that it could not draw a “new line” in Europe preventing Georgia and other countries from joining the western military alliance if they wished to do so. →