Friday, 8 August 2008

Friday, 8 August 2008

Russia at war with Georgia

click here to go to the blogThe madness has commenced. It will be difficult for either side to pull back now that serious hostilities have occurred and the two countries are effectively in a state of war. On BBC News Russia claims its peacekeepers in South Ossetia's regional capital, Tskhinvali, were attacked by Georgian troops on peacekeeping duties there with 10 killed...

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Georgia on my mind

click here to go to the blogNot the one in the song made famous by Ray Charles, but the one in the Caucasus, hugging Russia's southern border. Georgia appears to be acting to bring her breakaway separatist enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to heel, in much the same way as Russia did in Chechnya. Only in this case Russia threatened Georgia with war if she engages in...

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