Is it about separatism? Protecting Russian passport holders? A brute expression of power? No, Russia’s invasion of Georgia is mostly about seizing control of the only energy conduit threatening their monopoly of supply from Central Asia to E...
Oil prices have continued to fall as investor fears about economic damage resulting from the conflict in Georgia subside. Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia has given Russia “a perfect excuse to roll back US control of Azerbaijan’s oil ...
Russian markets supposedly saw a small boost after President Dmitry Medvedev said that most of the fighting was over in South Ossetia. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin insists that events in South Ossetia will not influence Russia’s fiscal pos...
The State Department must be feeling the onerous indecision of a diner at a vastly complicated sushi restaurant in considering its response to the war in Georgia – some options good, others terrible, and that one special item that could pois...
This dates back to Sunday, but Zbigniew Brzezinski comments on the war here: Fundamentally at stake is what kind of role Russia will play in the new international system. Unfortunately, Putin is putting Russia on a course that is ominously similar...
TODAY: Georgian troops leave Gori; Russian troops move deeper into Georgia; Saakashvili caught in air raid; both sides accuse each other of cyberwarfare. Bush says Moscow wants to overthrow Georgian government; Putin criticizes US interference; Eu...
The weak American response to Russia’s invasion of Georgia has not been lost on anyone, and one article even quoted a refugee fleeing the conflict zone toward safety as commenting “If Bush had said something stronger, the Russians woul...
Instead of spending the weekend watching the Olympics and enjoying some summer downtime with my family (like I assume many of this blog’s readers were planning on doing), I found myself up to my neck in newspapers, on the phone, and glued to...
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...
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