A group of law students in Georgia have prepared a brief examining the international law ramifications of the Russian invasion. This was forwarded to me from a lawyer colleague with contacts in Tbilisi. A few days have passed since this was writte...
From Dan Froomkin in the Washington Post: Back in 2005, speaking before a crowd of more than 150,000 exuberant Georgians cheering “Bushi! Bushi!”, President Bush made a promise to the people of that former Soviet republic: “The p...
It is difficult to find much material out there today that isn’t about the war in Georgia, but for those who are feeling a little overwhelmed by this material, check out the interesting New York Times piece by Anne Barnard about the intellec...
Sen. John McCain is running circles around Barack Obama in terms of speaking out strongly against the war in Georgia … and like nearly anything one says about Russia these days, will likely earn him both applause and criticism. After the cut...
Truth – the first victim of war Grigory Pasko, journalist Who is right in the war that has begun, and who is at fault – God willing, the tribunal in The Hague will figure this out. I hope that it will be able to assess the contribution to this cri...
If investors were somehow not scared off by TNK-BP, Mechel, and the William Browder/HSBC corporate identity fraud lawsuit, then Russia’s full scale invasion of a neighboring sovereign nation should be sufficient proof of a devastatingly high...
From the Wall Street Journal: Not least among the geopolitical realities coming to the surface at the moment is that of just who’s top dog in the Kremlin. While it’s widely thought Mr. Putin’s power trumps that of Russian Preside...
Paul Goble of Window on Eurasia writes about the gap between rhetoric and reality in terms of Washington’s support for the territorial integrity of former Soviet states: Then, that disillusionment is already spreading to other countries in t...
The Georgian conflict has raised the oil price by sparking fears of disrupted supply. BP is “on alert” after Russian forces targeted the BP-operated Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline in Tbilisi, but left “no visible damage”. BP’s production is said to ...
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