Reports of the parallel cyberwar being conducted against Georgia alongside the military onslaught is not news. We saw indications that organized groups of hackers using DOS (denial of service) attacks – which have previously been linked to t...
Former Kremlin economist Andrei Illarionov writes about the war in this translation from Yezhednevny Zhurnal, courtesy of the Finnish-Russian Civic Forum. The Second Georgian War By Andrei Illarionov 1. The war against Georgia was a brilliant prov...
A Moscow court has banned Robert Dudley, the TNK-BP joint venture’s chief executive, from working in Russia for two years. Dudley plans to continue managing the company from abroad. Some analysts maintain that the war is not about oil. New evidenc...
A number of big Wall Street banks are reportedly becoming “increasingly nervous that Russia’s high-risk, high-reward environment is becoming too much about the risk.” US electronics chain Best Buy Co will begin expanding into Russia. Russian aircr...
TODAY: War uproots 100,000; irregular add-ons to Russian army are “terrorizing”; aid workers having trouble accessing areas; Vitaly Churkin says Russia’s role in Gori was humanitarian; Rice to visit Tbilisi; US and Poland agree on missile shield; ...
[One of the best things about running a blog is that friends and colleagues will often contact me to ask if I will publish an occasional guest contribution. The following comes from the respected veteran journalist, author, and academic Jonathan S...
For some – war, for some – mother is dear (Russian saying) Grigory Pasko, journalist This sure was a strange war. It was clear right from the start that nobody – besides several politicians – needed it. Several politicians – that would be Saakashv...
From the columnist Andrew Borene: Americans should be appalled at the lack of attention paid to the major international security crisis in Georgia by the media, by our government and by the world community. We should have expected that the broadca...
This quote I dare say is the understatement of the week (hat tip to our editor): “Now Russia’s defeat of Georgian forces who tried to retake the breakaway region of South Ossetia, and its backing of rebels who pushed Georgian troops ou...
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