Abkhazia
Voronin rules out recognition of Moldova's rebel region by Russia
September 16, 2009Moldova's former President Vladimir Voronin does not believe that, under certain political circumstances, Russia could recognize independence of Moldova's breakaway Dniester region as it has already done with Georgia's Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Speaking...
Vladimir Putin: No difference between Kosovo and South Ossetia
August 28, 2009By Paul Goble Putin Dreams of Acting like the Soviet Image of the US rather than like One of Washington’s ‘Vassals,’ Moscow Analyst Says Prime Minister Vladimir Putin revealed more about himself this week than he may have...
Irina Severin: What Did Medvedev Tell Voronin?
August 25, 2009By Irina Severin Communist Party leader and acting Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin met last week in Sochi with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. It was the same day that the new coalition, the Alliance for European Integration (which includes...
Ex-senior editor of LA Times - a PR agent for Abkhazia, S.Ossetia
August 17, 2009Abkhazia, South Ossetia Hire U.S. PR Firm To ‘Improve Image’ The governments of Georgia's breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia have hired a U.S. public relations company to "improve their worldwide image," RFE/RL...
Governments of Abkhazia, South Ossetia Hire US PR Firm
August 17, 2009By Roman Kupchinsky The governments of the break-away Georgian provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have hired the Pasadena, California - based public relations firm of Mark Saylor LLC to promote their image in the West. The two governments will pay...
Leaving the CIS, Georgia Becomes Part of Russia’s ‘Far Abroad’
August 17, 2009By Paul Goble Tomorrow, on August 18, one year after Tbilisi declared its intention to do so, Georgia will officially cease to be a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and thus, in the words of one Moscow paper, should now be considered...
Georgia To Officially Withdraw From CIS
August 17, 2009Georgia will officially end its membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as of August 18, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. Officials in Georgia's State Chancellery told RFE/RL that Tbilisi plans to sign bilateral agreements with CIS...
Before the Summit, the U.S. Forgives Russia for Invading Georgia
July 02, 2009By Pavel Felgenhauer On Monday July 6, President Barack Obama is expected in Moscow for a summit to discuss nuclear arms control, Iran, Afghanistan the post-Soviet space and other issues. It has been announced that Obama will spend most of July 6 in...
Russian Experts Divided on Probability of New War with Georgia
July 01, 2009By Paul Goble As Moscow continues a military exercise in the North Caucasus that it says is designed to prevent conflicts, one leading Russian expert says that the probability of a new war between Russia and Georgia may be as high as 80 percent, while...
- June 24, 2009
By David J. Smith Last Sunday, Avtandil Akhaladze died of shrapnel wounds sustained when the ambulance he was driving struck a landmine. His MediClub ambulance was on a European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) patrol near the Mingrelian town of Muzhava...