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
Digest: Breakaway region asks Russia to recognize independence
(CNN) – One of Georgia’s breakaway regions has asked Russia to recognize independence, according to a report by the Russian news agency Interfax. →
Digest: CNN: Bush warns Russia over Georgia ‘bullying’
TBILISI, Georgia (CNN) — U.S. President Bush on Friday chided Russia for Cold War-style behavior in its territorial conflict with Georgia, accusing it of “bullying and intimidation” as international pressure grew on Moscow to withdraw its troops from the region.
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). →
Statement: Medvedev: Moscow guarantees the status of Southern Ossetia
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Digest: The war for Georgia: Russia, the west, the future
Ghia Nodia
The intentions behind the Russian assault on Georgia constitute a political challenge to the west and an existential one to its southern neighbour, writes the minister of education and science in the Republic of Georgia, Ghia Nodia. →
Digest:The Wall Street Journal: Vladimir Bonaparte
The farther Russia’s tanks roll into Georgia, the more the world is beginning to see the reality of Vladimir Putin’s Napoleonic ambitions. Having consolidated his authoritarian transition as Prime Minister with a figurehead President, Mr. Putin is now pushing to reassert Russian dominance in Eurasia. Ukraine is in his sights, and even the Baltic states could be threatened if he’s allowed to get away with it. The West needs to draw a line at Georgia. →
Analitycs: The New York Times: Russia’s War of Ambition
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