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Georgia and Putin’s Russia
Editor’s Note: Western media is saturated with news and analysis of events in Ukraine following Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the downing of MH-17 over Eastern Ukraine. However, little attention has been paid to Russia’s war with Georgia in 2008 that foreshadowed…
Into the Raucous Caucasus
They are names synonymous with the ethnic conflict, terrorism and violence which exploded in the aftermath of the end of the Cold War – Nagorno-Karabakh, Abhkhazia, Chechnya, North and South Ossetia, Beslan. While the collapse of the Soviet Union was calamitous economically…
Witness to a Collapsing Empire
As diplomats, perhaps one last pilgrimage to the Kremlin or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would have been more appropriate. But we chose to say good-bye to Russia in St. Petersburg at the Piscariovskaya Memorial to the victims of the 900-day siege…
