Posted by Matt in June 30th, 2007 |
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Russian media reported a series of attacks June 28 in Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia. While fighting is normal in the secessionist region, these attacks were not small in scale, and Russia could use them as the means it has been looking for to move not only back into South Ossetia, but into Georgia [...]
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Posted by Matt in April 13th, 2007 |
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Beware Russian gunships that pass in the night.
WAS it a stunt, a signal or a test? A month after helicopters launched a night-time rocket attack on government buildings in Georgia’s Kodori gorge, nobody knows. As so often in post-Soviet imperial politics, the big picture is clear, but the details are mysterious.
The big picture is that [...]
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