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Abkhazia’s Foreign Ministry says its principal condition of beginning talks with Georgia is Tbilisi’s recognition of Abkhazian independence. It also says that recent sessions of the UN Security Council have illustrated the absence of any possible security guarantees from the international community in case of military aggression against it. The Abkhazian Foreign Ministry statement said: […]

Speaking on South Ossetia’s events earlier this week, the Russian prime minister accused the West of double standards. “They [the U.S.] of course had to hang Saddam Hussein for destroying several Shiite villages,”

My wife and I are thinking about going to see Israel this October. Russians do not have to have a visa starting September 30th, 2008 and I being an American citizen do not need a visa either. So we have just about made up our minds to go to Israel. The reason we want to […]

Worst of the war wounded to be treated in Moscow: An influx of thousands of injured victims of the conflict in South Ossetia have started arriving in Moscow for specialist medical treatment. Hit by Georgian attacks on their homes and hospitals, they were forced to hide in cellars for days. As their wounds decayed in […]

Russia, and especially Putin, have learned quite a bit this past decade and a half in regards to the new rules of geopolitics. Every action taken by the Russians that was criticized by the Americans and the western press was quickly defused with the Russians throwing back into their faces everything that the Americans/Brits have […]

Hello, “Saakashvili heard the noise of Russian airplane and trying to escape under bodies of bodyguards. When the noise is gone, bodyguards tells journalists to stop shooting and go away. Saakashvili is very scared, he is running away for his life.) What more can be said…. Kyle & Svet comments always welcome.

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South Ossetia: This wicked, dirty, bitter war…http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20080813/115999488.html 13/08/2008

For some of those witnessing the fighting in the Caucasus over the past few days, the narrative is straightforward and easy. The plucky republic of Georgia, with just a few million citizens, was attacked by its giant eastern neighbour, Russia. Add to this all the stereotypes of the cold war era, and you are presented […]

1. The first is not to resort to the use of force. 2. The second is to halt all military action. 3. The third is free access to humanitarian aid. 4. The fourth is that Georgian Armed Forces should return to their bases. 5. The fifth is that Russian Armed Forces should pull back to […]