Georgia
Russia vows support for breakaway Georgian territories
August 08, 2010Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has pledged to develop broad economic and security ties with Abkhazia, one of two breakaway Georgian territories recognized by Moscow as independent countries. Mr. Medvedev spoke Sunday in the Abkhaz city of Sukhumi...
Russian military reform faces manning crisis
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July 30, 2010By Pavel Felgenhauer Russia’s attempts to build a modern military have run into a roadblock: there are not enough conscripts to fill the ranks. In the fall of 2008, the Russian military was a reservist/mobilization force. According to the Chief...
July 28, 2010by David J. Smith As if driven to Georgia by Zephyrus, ancient god of the westerly wind, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton arrived here in the turn...
July 28, 2010By Vladimir Kara-Murza Behind the façade of a half-hearted objection to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on the “independence” of Kosovo, Moscow was quietly celebrating. On July 22, by a vote of ten to four, the world...
July 23, 2010by David J. Smith The Paris Court of Commerce last week handed a victory to the Russian propaganda machine, allowing French satellite operator Eutelsat—one quarter French Government-owned—to bar Tbilisi-based First Caucasus Television from...
Clinton in Georgia: Precious few deliverables
July 07, 2010by Vladimir Socor US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, paid a six-hour visit to Georgia on July 5, as part of a tour of five countries in five days. Her Georgia visit was the first by a top US official since Vice-President, Joseph Biden, visited exactly...
Is part of the georgian opposition financed by Georgian organized crime?
July 01, 2010by Alexander Melikishvili On June 22, the German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau published an article by Andreas Förster entitled “Georgian Mafia Planned a Coup,” in which it was stated that part of the Georgian political opposition...
US-Russia relationships under the Obama Administration and how Eastern Europe perceives them
June 25, 2010By Violla Valentin From the Black Sea to the Baltic one, politicians, analysts, and the public are gripped by fear of a US sell-out to Russia, arising as a result of recent political developments involving Eastern European and US interests in the Middle...
Georgian President Saakashvili's ruling party to win a landslide victory in the election
May 31, 2010The main international observer mission to Georgia's municipal polls says the May 30 election was marred by "significant shortcomings." Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's ruling National Movement party looks set to win a landslide victory...
Georgian exit polls results show incumbent Ugulava winning reelection as Tbilisi mayor
May 31, 2010By Brian Whitmore Polls have closed across Georgia in key local elections that are seen as the first test of the strength of President Mikheil Saakashvili's government since the disastrous August 2008 war with Russia. Georgians cast ballots to elect...