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Russia and Its Neighbours Links

Georgia: The August 2008 War

• 'Bodies are lying everywhere. It’s hell'


• 'I've never heard anything so monstrous as people shelling a hospital'


• 'There was so much blood spilled'


• Fighting with Russia spreads to cities across Georgia


• For South Ossetians, Bitterness Follows Attacks


• Fox cuts off 12-year-old relating Georgian violence


• Fox News: 12 Year Old Girl Tells the Truth about Georgia (YouTube video)


• Georgia-Russia Conflict Forced Into Cold War Frame


• Georgia: the messy truth behind the morality tale


• Georgia's folly


• Georgian Civilians Tell of Miserable Conditions as War Captives


• Georgian Hostages Swapped For Ossetian Fighters In Gori


• Global Politics Ignite a Smoldering Dispute


• Georgia-Hezbollah: Dept. of Delicious Irony


• In west Georgia, few signs of damage by Russia


• It's simplistic to cast Russia as sole villain in South Ossetia clashes


• Language, the First Casualty of War


• Mikheil Saakashvili: War Criminal


• Not the good guys vs. the bad guys


• Q&A: Georgia-South Ossetia Fighting


• Revisiting the 'Battle of Tskhinvali'


• Rights abuses in Georgia's war (YouTube video)


• Russo-Georgian conflict is not all Russia's fault


• South Ossetia holds civilian Georgians hostage


• Strategic blunder led Georgia into South Ossetia folly


• The Real Agressor


• What's with These Stupid War Pundits Telling U.S. Allies to Commit National Suicide?


• What Israel Lost in the Georgia War

Georgia: The Separatist Regions

• A war waiting to happen


• An Embattled Enclave Yearns to Be Free (and Liechtenstein)


• Citizens of Abkhazia Strive to Shape Sovereign Nation


• Endgame Plans for South Ossetia


• Q&A: Behind the battle for South Ossetia


• Q&A: South Ossetia dispute


• Soviet Union's Fall Unraveled Enclave in Georgia


• The Kosovo precedent: Recognizing Georgia's regions


• The view from South Ossetia: Joy and thanks in the land that is now part of Russia

Georgia and the West vs. Russia

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• 'We Are All Georgians'? Not So Fast.


• And None Dare Call It Treason


• Blackball Georgia


• Blowback from Bear-Baiting


• Bush rebuking Russia? Putin must be splitting his sides


• Catastrophic farce--how we learned to stop worrying about national interest…


• Crisis in the Caucasus. What Were They Smoking in the White House?


• Did the U.S. Prep Georgia for War with Russia?


• Georgia: More grandstanding?


• Getting Georgia's War On


• Hegemon Hold 'Em


• McCain Speaks for Every American on Georgia?


• NATO's crisis


• On Thin Ice


• Playing with Fire


• Revenge of the Balkans


• The Georgia Crisis Turns Dangerous


• The Russia/Georgia conflict and the tactics of 2002


• The Seeds of Another Cold War?


• U.S. Role in Georgia Crisis


• U.S. to fly supplies into war-torn Georgia


• Who Started Cold War II?

Georgia Today

• Bloom Off the Rose


• Georgia: Mikheil Saakashvili, the man who lost it all


• Georgia: The Bloom Is Off the Rose


• Georgia’s Path to NATO Stalled by Questions About Democratic Credentials


• Georgia's Saakashvili Puts In Final Spurt On Comeback Trail


• Repression belies rhetoric in Georgia

Russia Today

• Annotated Timeline of the Chechen Conflict


• In a Russian City, Clues to Putin's Abiding Appeal


• Is Russia Democratic?


• Let Russia Find Its Own Way to Political Reform


• Litvinenko's Russian 'blackmail plot'


• Media Bias, 101


• Medvedev, Hillary, and 'Media Bias'


• Medvedev's first steps


• Medvedev Replaces Disliked Governor


• Poisoned ex-spy visited Israel with oil dossier


• Protests in Russia: The Real Story


• Putin's Landslide


• Russia-Iran Alliance?


• Russia's National Bolshevik Party stands up to Kremlin


• Russia eyes exiles after extradition deal
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• Russia goes its own way


• Russia no longer producing polonium-210


• Russian Billionaire's Bitter Feud With Putin A Plot Line in Poisoning


• Separatist passions heating up in Russia's restive North Caucasus


• Three Years After Nalchik, North Caucasus Resistance Remains Potent, Deadly Force


• Violence pushes Russia's Ingushetia towards civil war

The Soviet Union and Its Breakup

• Gods 'r' Us


• Many ethnic conflicts erupted as Soviet Union collapsed


• Post-Soviet 'frozen conflicts' heat up as big-power interests collide


• Russia's ignorant still hate Solzhenitsyn


• Solzhenitsyn and the Russian Question


• Stalin and the Ukrainian Genocide


• The Bogus Mythology of WWII


• The Serpent's Egg: Solzhenitsyn and the Origins of the American Gulag


• The West's Deal with the Devil

U.S.-Russian Relations

• A Cold War redux is seen on the horizon


• A Familiar Enemy


• A New Cold War?


• Comrade Cheney vs. President Putin


• Cornering the Russian Bear


• Free World Colossus


• Gang of Democracies


• In Moscow, buzz over arms race II


• Making Money on a New Cold War


• NATO Insists on Poking Russian Bear


• NATO stops here


• Neocon Crybabies


• Poking the Bear


• Pressuring Russia? How?


• Pull the Plug on the War State


• Putin vs. Cheney


• Putin vs. the Neo-Comintern


• Report: Russia mulls sending bombers to Cuba


• Russian military assessment: New arms race?


• Russian tests beat anti-missile systems


• Russians Sense the Heat of a New Cold War


• Russophobia: A Political Pathology


• The Cold War That Wasn't


• The U.S. Missile Defence System Is the Magic Pudding That Will Never Run Out


• Threats of Our Own Making


• U.S. to watch Russia's 'Cold-War era' warplanes in Venezuela


• Why Is America Baiting Putin?


• Why the U.S. Establishment Hates Putin

Ukraine

• 'Democracy' and Mendacity


• A bitter turn for Orange Revolution


• A Pathetic Anniversary: Ukraine's Shriveled 'Orange Revolution'


• Follow That 'Revolution


• Follow That Story!


• Has Ukraine's Orange Coalition Reached Point Of No Return?


• I received death threats, says doctor who denied that Ukrainian leader was poisoned


• No Dog in This Fight


• Orange Revolution, RIP


• The West's Ukraine illusion


• U.S. money has helped opposition in Ukraine


• Ukraine government falls apart


• Ukraine president blames former ally for poisoning


• Ukraine Revolution Is Mired Over Markets


• Watching Ukraine


• What Is the U.S. Up To--in Ukraine?


• Yushchenko on offensive ahead of poll

Uzbekistan

• Intelligence Officer Claims U.S. CIA Was Complicit in Torture in Uzbekistan


• The Discrete Charm of 'Non-Interference' in Uzbekistan


• The envoy who said too much


• Uzbekistan: The Revolution Betrayed

Miscellaneous

• 'Colour' revolutions wane


• Interview with Eric Margolis: The complicated politics of the Caucasus region, U.S. and Israeli arming and training of Georgian troops, the Ossetia fiasco, McCain’s foreign policy handler Randy Scheunemann and his relationship with the Saakashvili regime, the dangerous foolishness of NATO expansion, the self-serving hypocrisy of America and Russia’s leaders, etc.


• Political Pipeline: How anti-Iran policy contributed to war in the Caucasus


• Seeking a Path in Democracy’s Dead End