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‘Ex-Georgian Defense Minister Blames Saakashvili for War With Russia in Russified South Ossetia'
It now appears very certain that Georgian President Saakashvili had long planned a military strike against the Russian Autonomous Regions to seize back the breakaway territory starting with South Ossetia, but executed it very poorly. Continue reading
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Georgia: The West's Phantom Pains By Elena Ponomareva
The EU politicians with their unsophisticated vision seem unable even to identify – least to condemn – the actual aggressor. They cannot admit that the mad Tbilisi ruler who has sent Georgia’s NATO-sponsored army to South Ossetia and thus inflicted unprecedented disgrace on his country is in fact their creature. Continue reading
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Crisis in the Caucasus – Russian Perspectives
I didn’t want to post each article, rather, I’ve supplied links instead to what I regard as informative analysis and for a change, from a Russian perspective on the upheavals since Georgia’s insane attack on South Ossetia. 2008-09-05 Pyotr ISKENDEROV The Serbian Front in the War Over the Caucasus “At the moment, we are witnessing Continue reading
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Georgia – Another Pawn in the ‘Great Game’ By William Bowles
On August 7th, Georgia launched an unprovoked and vicious assault on the capital city of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, killing perhaps as many 2000 civilians, many of them women, children and old people and destroying much of the city including the main hospital and the university. Continue reading