PUTIN Q&A SESSION. Putin answered questions on Russian media today. Most of what he spoke about was connected with the economy - he remains reasonably optimistic - and the financial crisis - ditto - and other “money” issues.

NATO EXPANSION. At its meeting in Brussels NATO did not offer MAPs to Georgia or Ukraine. It also began a retreat from its ( Read more... )

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The US government is sending $1 billion to "rebuild" Georgia - no, not the Georgia located in the southern United States, where home foreclosure rates are double the national average, but the one located in the Caucasus, along Russia's southern frontier, where the President of the country launched a reckless invasion of a rebellious province, ( Read more... )

http://euobserver.com/7/26656
JAN OBERG
29.08.2008 @ 19:03 CET
EUOBSERVER / COMMENT - I was part of a TFF fact-finding mission to Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhasia in 1993. That the 7 August war would happen was predictable, albeit not the exact time.
One can see this easily if one ( Read more... )

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