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    Posted: August 16 2008 at 9:42am
Gori cathedral (view from the Gori Fortress) WIKIPEDIA
 
 
What Cease Fire?
 
Russians have exploded the railway bridge in Kaspi?
 
The railway bridge has been exploded by Russians in Kaspi, Georgia today. As a result the railroad does nor function anymore and civilians are not able to move on the trritory from West to east and vice versa.
 
 
This also shows up on the timeline of the...
 
Ministry Of Foreign Affaires Of Georgia web site.
 

16 August

16:00 Russian military denies Turkish and Ukranian airplanes permission to enter Georgian airspace in order to take part in putting down the fires in the Borjomi district forests. The fires started as a result of dropping of fire setting engines in the area by Russian aviation.

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Russian occupants blowed up railway bridge in Kaspi
 
 
Russian Military People Exploded Railway Bridge in Kaspi and Railway Connection between East and West Georgia Stopped: Georgian Foreign Ministry

16.08.08 16:03

Georgia, Tbilisi, 16 August /corr. Trend News N.Kirtskalia / Railway bridge was destroyed today in Kaspi region on the stage of Metekhi-Grakari. The Foreign Ministry of Georgia reported that Russian servicemen mined and exploded bridge.

As a result explosion of bridge, railway connection between East and West Georgia stopped. Transportation of cargos and passengers is impossible because of this. Georgian Foreign Ministry expresses protest that Russian side continues to destroy the infrastructure of Georgia in spite of the signed ceasefire agreement.

The correspondent can be contacted at: trend@trend.az

 
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RUSSIA IS NOT BACKING OFF
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Media is not publishing this????
 
 
Russian Occupants in Kaspi in Georgia
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Kaspi is very roughly halfway between Gori and Tbilisi
 
Railroad goes through south Kaspi.
 
See Map here-
 
 
 
 
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If anyone finds this on US media please comment. thanks.
 
 
RUSSIAN OCCUPATION ARMY EXPLODED THE RAILWAY BRIDGE IN THE KASPI DISTRICT

** UPDATE **

Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia

Despite the international community???s efforts and the signing of documents on cessation of hostilities, the Russian Federation???s armed forces continue military actions against Georgia, destroying civilian infrastructure.

On 16 August 2008 troops of the Russian occupation army mined and exploded the Metekhi-Grakali span of the railway bridge in the Kaspi district. This subversive-terrorist act resulted in the severing of railway links between the east and west of Georgia and connections with Georgia???s seaports. Moreover, the bridge used to provide a route for refugees from the Russian-occupied territories into safe places.

Russia is pursuing deliberate policy aimed at undermining Georgia???s statehood, including through bringing about humanitarian catastrophe.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia calls on the international community and friend countries to take urgent measures to avert humanitarian catastrophe in Georgia and prevent destruction of Georgia???s statehood.

Tbilisi, 16 August 2008



For further information, please contact:

Nato Chikovani, Press Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia: +995.77.507.726

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interesting article at
 
 
Israel backs Georgia in Caspian Oil Pipeline Battle with Russia
 
Gives background info..
 
some excerpts-
 
"...Jerusalem owns a strong interest in Caspian oil and gas pipelines reach the Turkish terminal port of Ceyhan...
...Aware of Moscow’s sensitivity on the oil question, Israel offered Russia a stake in the project but was rejected....

...Last year, the Georgian president commissioned from private Israeli security firms several hundred military advisers, estimated at up to 1,000, to train the Georgian armed forces in commando, air, sea, armored and artillery combat tactics. They also offer instruction on military intelligence and security for the central regime. Tbilisi also purchased weapons, intelligence and electronic warfare systems from Israel...."
 
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Originally posted by Mary08 Mary08 wrote:

interesting article at
 
 
Israel backs Georgia in Caspian Oil Pipeline Battle with Russia
 
Gives background info..
 
some excerpts-
 
"...Jerusalem owns a strong interest in Caspian oil and gas pipelines reach the Turkish terminal port of Ceyhan...
...Aware of Moscow’s sensitivity on the oil question, Israel offered Russia a stake in the project but was rejected....

...Last year, the Georgian president commissioned from private Israeli security firms several hundred military advisers, estimated at up to 1,000, to train the Georgian armed forces in commando, air, sea, armored and artillery combat tactics. They also offer instruction on military intelligence and security for the central regime. Tbilisi also purchased weapons, intelligence and electronic warfare systems from Israel...."
 


Welcome Mary - you are posting some very interesting data. Have been so caught up in the Gulf and birds that haven't been monitoring Russia's military moves in Georgia and the southern province. There is a distinct split between Western media and what you can find on other crawlers which do not flow through Yahoo, Google, or Dogpile.  While the battle is over oil, the battlefield is unlikely to be the Caspian sea.  As you know there were 1,000 Israeli troops involved in the fighting,

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Taking GEORGIA APART "peace" by "peace"....
 
 
 
RUSSIA MASSES NAvAL FORCE OPPOSITE GEORGIA'S AJARIA REGION
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Location%20of%20Adjara
Detailed map of Adjara
Capital Batumi
 
GEORGIA
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find at bps.berkeley.edu/publications/2004_04-sani.pdf

Islam and Islamic Practices in Georgia
George Sanikidze and Edward W. Walker

EXCERPT-
 
ISLAM IN AJARIA
The region of Ajaria was Islamized quite late. Until the 1770s, most Ajarians were Christian.
Islamicization began after Ajaria was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in the early seventeenth century and accelerated especially after the 1820s. When the Ottomans ceded Ajaria to Russia in 1878, some 6,000 Muslim Ajarians fled the region in search of refuge in Turkey.
 

Orthodox Christian missionaries also began actively proselytizing in the region in the late nineteenth
century.
 
The long-standing Christian presence in the region remains as such today.11
The Muslims of Ajaria are, virtually without exception, Sunnis. Sufism, however, is rare, despite its widespread presence in Turkey to the west and among other Muslims of Georgia.
Moreover, in general Islamicization in Ajaria was rather superficial, as Islamic practices in the region intermingled with non-Islamic traditions often linked to Georgian Christianity.
 
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Videos of Georgia...lovely country.
 
 
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Rally in front of Russian Embassy in Minsk disbanded by policemen with machine guns (Photo, video)16:20

Activists of the Young Front organization tried to hold the rally in support of Georgia in front of the Russian Embassy in Minsk.

15 activists of the organisation gathered near the Embassy with slogans: “Stop aggression”, “Russia-Georgia: war with peacekeeping intent?”, “One sixth part of land – is it not enough?”

 
VIDEO
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Hello Med :)   liked your posts.
 
I'm thinking...
US will not launch an attack on Iran...  not in this age of proxy war.
I imagine we are downplaying Georgia because Europe is very dependant on Russia energywise.  No move is a good move there. France is ok due to nuky plants every 30 miles.  Ukraine is very brave to stand with Georgia.   Russia's game is to drive folks nuts until they do something off the wall in anger. 
 
 
 
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Finally - Our media reports it.
 
It was on the Georgian Gov website early this morning.... all of the fires
 and the blown up railway was on youtube early this morning.  Do we not love the internet?
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read story here...
 
 
TBILISI, Georgia (CNN) -- Georgia accused the Russian army of destroying a key railway bridge Saturday and starting massive fires in the scenic Borjomi Gorge, in violation of a new cease-fire agreement between the two countries.
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The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline
 
(sometimes abbreviated as BTC pipeline)
is a crude oil pipeline that covers 1,768 kilometres (1,099 mi) from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. It connects Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan; Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia; and Ceyhan, a port on the south-eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, hence its name. It is the second longest oil pipeline in the world after the Druzhba pipeline. The first oil that was pumped from the Baku end of the pipeline on May 10,
 
 
Image:Baku%20pipelines.svg

Even before its completion, the BTC pipeline was affecting the world's oil politics. The South Caucasus, previously seen as Russia's backyard, is now a region of great strategic significance to other great powers. The U.S. and other Western nations have consequently become much more closely involved in the affairs of the three nations through which oil will flow. Some have criticized this degree of western involvement in the South Caucasus, arguing that it has led to an unhealthy dependence on undemocratic leaders.[citation needed] The countries themselves though have been trying to use the involvement as a counterbalance to Russian and Iranian economic and military dominance in the region.[15][22] It is seen similarly by Russian specialists claiming that the pipeline is aimed to weaken the Russian influence in the Caucasus. The Russian Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Konstantin Kosachev even stated that the United States and other Western countries are planning to settle their soldiers in Caucasus on the pretext of instability in regions where the pipeline passes through.[23]

The project also constitutes an important leg of the East-West energy corridor, gaining Turkey greater geopolitical importance. The BTC pipeline also supports Georgia's independence from Russian influence. Former President Eduard Shevardnadze, one of the architects and initiators of the project, saw the construction of the pipeline through Georgian territory as a certain guarantee for the country's future economic and political security and stability. This view has been fully shared by his successor President Mikhail Saakashvili. "All strategic contracts in Georgia, especially the contract for the Caspian pipeline are a matter of survival for the Georgian state," he told reporters on 26 November 2003.[24]

[edit] Economics

Although some have touted the BTC pipeline as potentially removing the dependence of the US and other Western nations on oil from the Middle East, in reality it doesn't change global dependence on Middle Eastern oil as it supplies only 1% of global demand during its first stage.[citation needed] However, the pipeline diversifies the global oil supply and so ensures, to an extent, against a failure in supply elsewhere. Critics of the pipeline—particularly Russia—are skeptical about its economic prospects and see this as politically motivated.[25]

Construction of the BTC pipeline has contributed significantly to the economies of the host countries. In the first half of 2007, a year after the completion and launch of BTC pipeline as the main export route for Azerbaijani oil, the real GDP growth of Azerbaijan hit a record of 35%.[26] Substantial transit fees accrue to Georgia and Turkey. For Georgia the transit fees are expected to produce an average of US$62.5 million per year.[22] Turkey is expected to receive approximately US$200 million in transit fees per year in the initial years of operation, with the possibility of increasing to US$290 million per year from year 17 to year 40. Turkey is also benefitting from an increase in economic activity in eastern Anatolia, including increased importance of the port of Ceyhan, which had experienced significant reductions of activities since the 1991 Gulf War.[27] The reduction of oil tanker traffic on the Bosphorus will contribute to greater security for Istanbul.[28]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan_Pipeline#Possible_transhipment_via_Israel

 

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"HERE'S THE BRIEF ON RED POUPON..."
 
 
 
Schiraki
This is a beautiful country...
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It Sorta is About Oil...   also about protecting the world order.
 
and here we are on the other side...
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The country up there in white is, Azerbaijan, a V. I Country.
 

Azerbaijan is a member of the United Nations; the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; NATO's Partnership for Peace; Euro-Atlantic Partnership; World Health Organization; CFE Treaty member state; the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; the Council of Europe; the Community of Democracies; the International Monetary Fund; and the World Bank.
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BP Oil Co. Sangachal Terminal
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Wikipedia
 

The Sangachal Terminal

is large industrial complex consisting of a Natural gas processing Plant and Oil production plant. It is located on the coast of the Caspian Sea 45 kilometres (28 mi) south of Baku, Azerbaijan.

The terminal is operated by a BP led consortium and is one of the largest oil and gas facilities in the world. Others involved in the terminal are partners from AIOC, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, Shah Deniz and South Caucasus Pipeline projects. The terminal receives oil from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli field and natural gas from the Shah Deniz gas field. The oil is exported via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline to Turkey's Mediterranean coast and via the Baku-Supsa Pipeline and the Baku-Novorossiysk Pipeline to Black Sea coast. Total production is expected to reach more than 800,000 barrels per day (127,000 m³/d) in 2007, and around one million barrels a day by 2009.

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And there is a proposed gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to the  Sangachal Terminal .>>>
(note their neighbors below)
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The above map (please slide the bar to see entire map) is from this source...
 
 
The Trans/Caspian gas pipeline would run under the Caspian Sea from Türkmenbaşy to the Sangachal Terminal, where it would connect with the existing pipeline to Erzurum in Turkey, which in turn would be connected to the Nabucco pipeline,
 
thus taking natural gas from Turkmenistan to Central Eaurope.
 
ALL IN FAVOR?
 
 
 
 
Caspian Sea Oil and Natural Gas Export Routes
 
a good read here- older but interesting background.
 
 
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Wikipedia
 
The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (sometimes abbreviated as BTC pipeline)
is a crude oil pipeline that covers 1,768 kilometres (1,099 mi) from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. It connects Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan; Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia; and Ceyhan, a port on the south-eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, hence its name. It is the second longest oil pipeline in the world after the Druzhba pipeline. The first oil that was pumped from the Baku end of the pipeline on May 10, 2005 reached Ceyhan on May 28, 2006.[1
 
Remember this on August 11th?
 
A fire on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline in Turkey was extinguished on Monday, a senior source at BP, a major shareholder in the pipeline, told Reuters. The pipeline carrying Azeri crude, which passes through Georgia, was hit by an explosion on Turkish territory two days before conflict began over the South Ossetia region.
 
 
 
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Excerpt-
 
11 August 2008

As the great powers seek energy security, Turkmenistan is at the center of a number of pipeline proposals.

After years of isolation, Turkmenistan has been host to hundreds of official delegations from the world’s great powers, as Europe, Russia, China, and India pursue energy security with an eye toward the country's gas deposits. President Berdymukhamedov has forsaken at least some of his predecessor’s inward focus, in favor of a “multi-vector” natural resource strategy. The strategy relies on multiple hydrocarbon export routes, and the various gas importers each have a route in mind.

Key pipeline proposals include the
 
Caspian coastal pipeline,
 
the Central Asia-China pipeline,
 
the TAPI and IPI pipelines,
 
and the Nabucco and Trans-Caspian pipelines.
 
From Wikipedia- Turkmenistan
 
Image:Turkmenistan-map.png
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Actually... We are very close to Russia
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The Bering land bridge was a land bridge roughly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) north to south at its greatest extent, which joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia at various times during the Pleistocene ice ages. It was not glaciated because snowfall was extremely light due to the southwesterly winds from the Pacific Ocean having lost their moisture over the fully glaciated Alaska Range. The grassland steppe including the land bridge and stretching for several hundred miles either side of it has been called Beringia.

It is believed that a small human population of at most a few thousand may have survived the last ice age in Beringia, isolated from its ancestor populations in Asia for at least 5,000 years, before expanding to populate the Americas sometime after 16,500 years ago, as the American glaciers blocking the way southward melted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait_Bridge
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 http://unomig.org/media/headlines/?id=11211&y=2008&m=8&d=19

 
19 August, 2008  


GEO FOREIGN MINISTRY COMMENTS ON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia made a statement on 18 August on recent developments in the country. "As it was indicated in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia dated 13 August 2008,

representatives of Abkhazia''s separatist authorities profited from the escalated situation in the Tskhinvali region and, in violation of all agreements and treaties signed up to this day and with the assistance of Russian invaders, occupied Upper Abkhazia and conducted a mass cleansing of the region''s ethnic Georgian population.
 
"The Russian Federation''s troops have gone beyond the security zone. Currently there are approximately 9,000 Russian servicemen and their hardware and military equipment stationed in Abkhazia''s adjacent Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region and Poti. Divisions of the occupation army are looting state buildings and population, mining and exploding bridges, transport and economic infrastructure.
 
"Military and civilian vessels have been sunk in the Poti port, warehouses - robbed, docks - exploded. Exact amount of damage is difficult to calculate due to the presence of armed invaders in the region. "Separatists together with Russian servicemen shifted Abkhazia''s administrative border up to the Enguri River and occupied the villages of Ganmukhuri and Khurcha of the Zugdidi district.
 
"Russian ''peacekeepers'' have not even tried to prevent the movement of Abkhazian separatists thus violating their mandated obligations, which were affirmed already on 10 August 2008 by the UN Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Edmond Mulet at an emergency session of the UN Security Council held in New York.
 
"It needs to be emphasized that such actions of the Abkhaz separatists and Russian ''peacekeepers'' represent a gross violation of the 1994 Moscow Agreement on Ceasefire and Separation of Forces and all resolutions on the existing situation in Abkhazia, Georgia adopted by the UN Security Council.
 
"Both the Russian Federation and representatives of Abkhazia''s separatist authorities call on the Georgian side for compliance with the agreement, which they have themselves ''trampled'' without the slightest hesitation. "It is absolutely obvious to the international community that the Russian Federation chose destruction of economy with the use of military force and ethnic cleansing as an instrument for implementing its foreign policy," the Foreign Ministry''s statement reads. (Geo MFA)

THESE NEWS ITEMS
DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE VIEWS OR POSITION OF THE UN

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Published on Tiraspol Times & Weekly Review (http://www.TiraspolTimes.com)

Sukhumi, the capital of the 'de facto' independent country Abkhazia on the Black Sea coast (file photo)

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Some Background....
 
 
 
ABKHAZIA

The conflict between Georgia and Abkhazia following the disintegration of the Soviet Union was characterized by both sides’ use of landmines.  Between 1992 and 1993, both forces laid tens of thousands of mines.  12 new landmine casualties were reported in 2002, but this data is believed to be an underestimate.  Lack of resources impedes the proper functioning of health care facilities, creating a compelling need for support in survivor assistance operations.

Abkhazia%20Map

Survivor Assistance Partner

ABK-SA-AIS01

The Association of Inva (AIS), through "Project Vika" is providing physical and psychological rehabilitation for landmine survivors and other disabled people in Abkhazia, formerly part of the Soviet Union.   Abkhazia’s limited capacity to provide rehabilitative services, coupled with its population of over 700 amputees, creates a need for this type of project.  "Project  Vika" is providing services to disabled people with the greatest need.  The program is supplying clients with mobility devices and access to a prosthetic clinic as well as employment training classes at their computer center. 

 

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...
 
 
 
 
 

 Russia : The OUTLAW

 
 
In an interview on evening news Condoleezza Rice stated that  "...Russia is becoming... the Outlaw..."
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Russia gone Bananas...Russia referring to NATO, The Mountain gave birth to a mouse."
 
After signing a cease fire agreement Russian soldiers are filmed removing Georgian
Prisoners from the port city of Poti ...

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NATO Warns Russia

Over Georgia Pullout

Associated Press
August 19, 2008 4:48 p.m.

 
Excerpt-
 
BRUSSELS -- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Tuesday warned Russia that the alliance's cooperation with Moscow will depend on the pullout of troops from Georgia, and insisted that the tiny Caucasus nation remains on track to join NATO despite Russia's opposition.
 
Source-
 
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August 19, 2008, 19:07
 
 

Russia won't be lectured by NATO - Lavrov

 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has been briefing the media in Moscow. He stated that the Russia-NATO council was created 'not for the purpose of disciplining Russia or educating it in terms of how it should behave.'
 
Source- SEE VIDEO FROM RUSSIA
 
 
 
 

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Saakashvili: Russia controls one-third of Georgian land
 
USA TODAY
 
Excerpt-
 
According to two defense officials, the latest Pentagon information does not show any major movement by Russian troops or tanks Thursday. The officials said that if tanks are moving toward Kutaisi, the Russian troops might be headed to South Ossetia — where they're supposed to be going.
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Vue de Kutaisi
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excerpt-
 
POTI (AFP) - Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili took, Monday, March 15, 2004, the first radical measures-without resorting to force to restore Tbilisi's authority over the autonomous republic of Adjara, currently quasi-independent under the leadership of its leader Aslan Abashidze.

The latter, a pro-Russian autocrat, has rejected the demands presented by Tbilisi in the form of an ultimatum with the threat of an economic blockade.

The road, rail and air to and from Adjara was blocked Monday, March 15, 2004, announced on Georgian Minister of the Interior, Gueorgui Baramidzé.


The Georgian government, which met under the chairmanship of Mr. Saakashvili in Poti, a port on the Black Sea, was to begin putting in place a naval blockade of Batumi, the capital adjare to prevent a hypothetical introduction of weapons . A "General Staff anti-crisis" was created to manage the conflict and in particular to "prevent any illegal transit."
 
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Thanks to- Användare:Ojj! 600
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Sochi, Krasnodar Krai  
 
 
Russian Government is under the misimpression that Georgian President is calling the shots with NATO.
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Condoleezza Rice has stated...
 
"...there will have to be a peacekeeping force that is neutral,
I think it's quite clear that Russia has become a party to this conflict..."
 
 
On Ms Rice.....
 
 
In late 2005, there was a dispute between Russia and Ukraine after Russia decided to quadruple the price of energy being provided to the Ukrainian market[144] (Ukraine was receiving heavily subsidized prices for gas from Russia, the increase would have made the price equal to that of the current market price).[145]
 
Rice subsequently criticised Russia's actions, accusing Russia of using its gas wealth as a political weapon. She called on Russia to behave as a responsible energy supplier and stated that the act did not show the international community "that it is now prepared to act … as an energy supplier in a responsible way."
 
Rice insisted, "When you say you want to be a part of the international economy and you want to be a responsible actor in the international economy, then you play by its rules … I think that kind of behavior is going to continue to draw comment about the distance between Russian behavior and something like this and what would be expected of a responsible member of the G8."[146]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice

 


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According to debkafile.com
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Moscow plans 18 long-term checkpoints inside Georgia
August 20, 2008, 11:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
Deputy chief of the Russian army general staff Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn told reporters Aug. 20: “The president ordered us to stop where we were. We are not pulling out or pulling back troops behind this administrative border into South Ossetia,” he said.
 
 
 
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RUSSIAN GAMES LOOK LIKE IRANIAN GAMES
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On January 2008, the Nimitz deployed to the Pacific for a surge-deployment.[4] On February 9, 2008, two Russian Tu-95 'Bear bombers overflew the carrier in the Western Pacific.[5]
 
Four F/A-18C Hornets were launched when the bombers were 500 miles away from the U.S. ships, and intercepted the bombers 50 miles south of the Nimitz. Two F/A-18s trailed one of the bombers, which buzzed the deck of the carrier twice, while the other two F/A-18s trailed another TU-95 circling about 50 miles away from the carrier.
 
The fighters then proceeded to guide the Russians away from the area. Reportedly, there was no radio communication between the American and Russian aircraft. According to the Department of Defense, one of the two aircraft was said to have flown above the Nimitz at an altitude of 2,000 feet. This caused much controversy.
 
On the same day, Russian aircraft entered Japanese airspace, which caused the Japanese to raise protest at the Russian ambassador in Tokyo.[6] CVN-68/CVW-11 made a port visit to Busan, South Korea on February 28 in conjunction with military exercises Key Resolve/Foal Eagle.[7]
 
Again, on March 5, 2008, a Russian bomber came within three to five nautical miles and flew 2,000 feet above the Nimitz and its battle group. Two F/A-18 fighters intercepted the Russian aircraft and escorted it out of the area.[5]
 
 
 
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USS Nimitz in Victoria Canada    (WIKIPEDIA)
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 Dmitry Azovtsev   RED SQUARE, MOSCOW
 
 
Конфликт Грузии и Южной Осетии
(The conflict of Georgia and South Ossetia)
 
News from the other side.
 
This is a google translator English translation, loosely? translated from the Russian version.   The followin are snippets from Russion news and I give the source so you may get it in full if you wish.
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[20.08.2008] Members of the OSCE decided to increase the number of military observers in Georgia.
 
 "Until that can speak with some confidence that the security zone will be sent to the OSCE observers from various countries. In the first stage, we can talk about a group of 10-20 people," - said in an interview with "RG" and. about. postpreda Russia to the OSCE Vladimir Voronkov. "In this matter, to bypass Russia will not succeed. For us the only international organization that can be observed in the security zone, remains the OSCE" - he said
(NOTE: The OSCE is not an international organization in the strict sense of international law, which is to say that its resolutions are not legally binding on the signatory countries.  This may be considered a weakness, since it means that its decisions can at best have only the power of influence)
 
 
[20.08.2008]
Gleb Pavlovsky: Western world is experiencing an outbreak of "racism" against Russia
 
 
 [20.08.2008] Some eighty percent of Russians approve of actions of the authorities in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. And in the West, most respondents polled believe that Russia - the aggressor. "Look, any article, and you will see that we are represented there as Martians, falling to Earth - said political analyst Gleb Pavlovsky. - We have offended explain that we are right, but they are not interested in our rightness. Rasistsky image of Russia as a monster space limits us for manoeuvre in the information war with the West "
 
 
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 Russia has not signed the UN Security Council resolution on Georgia
[05:00] Russia refused to sign the UN Security Council resolution on Georgia, France made without coordination with Russia. At first glance, it looks like the scandalous decision after President Dmitry Medvedev and Nicolas Sarkozy agreed on six principles of peaceful settlement, known as "Plan Medvedev - Sarkozy."
 
The document, actually, to form the basis for Paris prepared by United Nations resolutions. However, it turned out that while common purpose - the settlement of the situation in the Georgian-yugoosetinskogo conflict, the resolution was a truncated version reached Paris and Moscow agreements. And also contains new provisions written almost dictated the American delegation
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Dot shows : position of Moscow in Europe
 
 
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    What the Russian Press says on August 21, 2008
     
    ..................................According to a source in Russian military intelligence.................................................
     
     
    The Georgian authorities are preparing in the coming days, large-scale provocation
     
    rg.ru dated August 21, 2008

     
    The source in the Russian military intelligence reported that the Georgian authorities are preparing in the coming days, perhaps tomorrow a large-scale provocation. According to available information, "Georgia minoborony units to be used for the remains of remaining in the fighting troops".
     
    According to a source in Russian military intelligence, "over the remains of the work is carried out, ostensibly to show documented civilian casualties and bullying and brutality at the remains of soldiers."
     
    "Today, from the district in Tbilisi, Gori left three refrigerated, up to the top downloaded remains that in recent days met Georgian units" - said the source.
    Russian  » English  Translate  (Google)
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    released into the public domain by its author, Jaro.p.
     
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    2008 SPY PLANES  
     
     
     
     
     
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    From- Newsru.com
     
     
    Russian Aircraft carrier reported heading for Syria
     
    Heading for the Syrian port of Tartus
     
    President Assad expressed interest in Russian missile air defence facilities
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    See below-
     
    While designated an aircraft carrier by the West...
     
    “heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser” - intended to support and defend strategic missile-carrying submarines, surface ships, and maritime missile-carrying aircraft of the Russian fleet.
     
    This designation allows the Soviet/Russian Navy to circumvent the refusal by Turkey to let aircraft carriers pass the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
     
     
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    Russia wanting to take a Mile
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    Norway challenged by Russian plans in Spitsbergen waters



    2008-08-05
     
    Russia this week confirmed its intention to start looking for oil and gas in waters near the Spitsbergen archipelago.
     
    Meanwhile, Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre says in a newspaper interview that Norway has the right to establish an economic zone around the islands and that all industrial activities in the area are subjected to Norwegian regulations.
     
     
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    LIKE A WOLf IN THE BACK YARD
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    Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said Thursday that preparations for the withdrawal by 2017 of Russia`s Black Sea Fleet from Ukrainian territory should begin without delay.

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     Referring to the bloody conflict in Georgia, Yushchenko said that if Ukraine’s borders are “questioned” by someone, “then that means we are on verge of deep and serious military actions.”
     
    source-http://blog.kievukraine.info/
     
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    Sevastopol is a port city located on the Black Sea coast of Crimean peninsula. It has a population of 328,600 (2004). Former home of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet, the city is now a naval base shared by the Russian and Ukrainian N)

     
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    Moscow Kremlin from Bolshoi Kamenny bridge
     
     
     

    Russia Continues To Set Up Shop in Georgian Territory
     
    Russia's Presidential Word means little
     
    Russian Government makes up their own rules, Russionopoly
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    Russian News-
     
    Russia says military pullout from Georgia complete
     
    22-08-2008 22:07 MOSCOW, August 22 (RIA Novosti) -
     
    Russia's defense minister said on Friday the military had completed the withdrawal of troops from Georgia as stipulated in a peace deal brokered by the French president last week.
     
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    UKRANIAN NEWS
     
    President Yuschenko Directs Deputy Minister Of Foreign Affairs Yeliseev Study Humanitarian Situation In Georgia
     
    (13:58, Saturday, August 23, 2008)
     
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    As Ukrainian News reported, on August 8, President Yuschenko decided to send K. Yeliseev to Georgia as his special envoy.
    On the night of August 7-8, Georgian troops held mass attack on the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali,
    after Georgian authorities had blamed separatists from South Ossetia for launching several attacks on peaceful populace
    and peacekeeping troops in several villages near Tskhinvali. 
    South Ossetia asked Russia for help.
    Russia brought its troops to South Ossetia and started armed confrontation with the Georgian troops.

    Read here-

     
     
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    Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine

    In view of the mortal danger surrounding Ukraine in connection with the state coup in the USSR on August 19, 1991,

    Continuing the thousand-year tradition of state development in Ukraine,

    Proceeding from the right of a nation to self-determination in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and other international legal documents, and

    Implementing the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic solemnly declares

    Independence of Ukraine and creation of the independent Ukrainian state - UKRAINE.

    The territory of Ukraine is indivisible and inviolable.

    From this day forward, the Constitution and laws of Ukraine only are valid on the territory of Ukraine.

    This act comes into force upon its approval.

    VERKHOVNA RADA OF UKRAINE
    August 24, 1991

     

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    Sunday, August 24, 2008

    Ukraine Vows To Speed Up Bid To Join NATO

     
    KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has called for stronger efforts to join NATO, saying Ukraine shares Georgia's "pain" in its conflict with Russia.
     
     
    source-http://blog.kievukraine.info/
     
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    cene At Russia-Georgia Border Hinted At Scripted Affair
     
    Did Russian peacekeepers at South Ossetia's de facto border know what was coming?
    August 23, 2008
    By Brian Whitmore

    Said Tsarnayev stumbled into a war.

    A Chechen freelance photographer with the Reuters news agency, Tsarnayev arrived in the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, during the day on August 7. Traveling together with a colleague, Tsarnayev said he planned to take photographs of the environment and natural surroundings in the area for a project he was working on.

    Once in Tskhinvali, he discovered a virtual army of Russian journalists at his hotel.

    Speaking to RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service, Tsarnayev, a resident of the Chechen capital, Grozny, said the Moscow-based reporters had been sent from various Russian media outlets days earlier, and were preparing to cover something big.

    "At the hotel we discovered that there were already 48 Russian journalists there. Together with us, there were 50 people," Tsarnayev said. "I was the only one representing a foreign news agency. The rest were from Russian media and they arrived three days before we did, as if they knew that something was going to happen. Earlier at the border crossing, we met one man who was taking his wife and children from Tskhinvali."

    Late that night, armed conflict broke out between Russia and Georgia.

    'No Relationship To Reality'

    Tsarnayev's account could not be independently confirmed. But it is consistent with mounting indications that Russia had been planning an attack on Georgia in advance, and was just waiting for a pretext to carry it out.

    Russia's state-controlled media seemed extremely well-prepared to cover the outbreak of armed conflict in Georgia. Television networks immediately presented elaborate graphics with news anchors and commentators appearing to stick to disciplined talking points accusing Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili of aggression, and the Georgian armed forces of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

    The country's best English-speaking officials were made readily available to Western media, where they relentlessly pushed Moscow's line on the conflict: Russia was simply protecting its citizens and peacekeepers in South Ossetia from atrocities at the hands of Georgia's military.

    In an interview with RFE/RL in the early days of the conflict, Steven Pifer, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who is now a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said Moscow's rhetoric and media narrative suggests they were preparing a large-scale operation.

    "The rhetoric that is coming out of Moscow, ethnic cleansing and genocide, is just way over the top," Pifer said. "It's almost approaching the point where there is just no relationship to reality. But again, certainly the rhetoric is appropriate to a larger operation against Georgia to just stop and reverse whatever military gains the Georgians made in South Ossetia on [August 7]."

    The apparently well-prepared media narrative is only part of the picture.

    On August 3, authorities in Georgia's Moscow-backed separatist province of South Ossetia began evacuating hundreds of children to Russia. At the time, Georgian officials said the move could be a signal that separatist authorities, and their patrons in Russia, were preparing an offensive.

    South Ossetian authorities said at the time that the evacuations were a precaution in case Georgia attempted to retake the province by force -- something Moscow and Tskhinvali had been accusing Tbilisi of plotting to do.

    Speaking at a news conference in Moscow on August 21, the deputy head of Russia's General Staff, Colonel General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, reiterated Moscow's claims that the Georgian side was preparing to use force.

    "We have complaints against the OSCE regarding the initial stage of the conflict -- they were informed by the Georgian side that there would be an invasion, but they didn't warn the Russian peacekeepers," Nogovitsyn said.

    In remarks reported by "The Washington Post," Georgian Defense Minister Davit Kezerashvili said he gave the order for Georgian forces to "go out from their bases" at 6 p.m. local time on August 7, just one hour before Saakashvili announced a unilateral cease-fire.

    Months In The Works

    Kezerashvili said the Georgian troop movement was designed to deter South Ossetian separatists, who were firing across the de facto border into Georgian-controlled villages.

    But observers say the march toward war on Moscow's side began months earlier.

    In fact, hostilities began escalating soon after NATO delayed granting Membership Action Plans -- a key phase before full membership -- to Georgia and Ukraine at its summit in early April.

    Less than two weeks later, Vladimir Putin, who was in the last month of his presidency, signed a decree authorizing direct relations with and assistance for Georgia's two pro-Moscow separatist provinces, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

    Later in April, Russia deployed 1,500 additional troops, some of them heavily armed, to its "peacekeeping" contingent in Abkhazia without Georgia's consent  -- an express violation of the 1994 cease-fire agreement.

    Russia also began shooting down Georgia's unmanned drone aircraft that were conducting reconnaissance over Abkhazia. Russian military aircraft also began regularly violating Georgian airspace near the separatist territory.

    In June, Russia deployed unarmed troops to Abkhazia to rebuild a rail link between Sukhumi and Ochamchira. At the time, Moscow presented the move as a humanitarian gesture to improve Abkhazia's transportation infrastructure. But U.S. and Georgian officials later pointed out that the railway was used to transport military equipment and munitions into Georgia during the conflict.

    Then, with everybody watching Abkhazia, the focus abruptly shifted to South Ossetia.

    In July, Russia's armed forces began massive military training exercises in the North Caucasus involving 8,000 servicemen and 700 pieces of military hardware. Russia's 58th Army, which would later spearhead the incursion into Georgia on August 8, was the key unit in those maneuvers.

    The 58th Army remained in the North Caucasus after the exercises. Shortly thereafter, Georgian and South Ossetian separatist forces began exchanging artillery, mortar, and sniper fire across the de facto border. Georgian officials accuse the separatists of instigating the exchanges, but South Ossetian authorities deny the allegation.

    Pifer said is appears that Russia laid a well-prepared trap for the Georgians, and Tbilisi took the bait.

    "The Georgian leadership made a mistake on [August 7]. They should have understood from what they have seen from the Russians that the Russians were looking for a pretext. They [the Georgians] gave them that pretext when they decided to go in a fairly large way into South Ossetia," Pifer said. "The speed of the Russian response suggests that the Russians were ready, they were just waiting for the reason and they took that as the reason."

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    I read that Georgia sent small unmanned planes over to have a look at Russian movements for yrs.  There are so few secrets these days.
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    I wonder why they are afraid of NATO?
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    August 27, 2008, 23:31

    Russian warship eases Abkhazian fears of NATO

     

    On Wednesday, Abkhazia put on a welcome for a Russian warship arriving in its capital's port. The flagship cruiser ’Moskva’ dropped anchor in Sukhum, and joins two other Russian vessels in the town’s port. It’s hoped their arrival will ease locals fears about NATO’s increased presence nearby.
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    According to-
     
     
     
    August 27, 2008, 14:41

    Georgia sending spy planes to South Ossetia - Russia

     
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    There are currently ten NATO warships in the Black Sea, with eight more expected shortly.
     
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    According to youtube
     
    Nato Ships ... 
     
    from ? US Navy, Great Britain, France , German, Polish, Romanian, Italy, Norway, Bulgarian, Turkey, Canada, and Australia.
     
    acording to-
     
     
     
    ...Obviously, there are other NATO-affiliated nations out doing things," Lt. Col. Web Wright, the spokesman, said.
     
    "But I can't speak for those nations."
     
     
    above an excerpt from...
     
     
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    August 27, 2008, 17:26

    Russia 'yes' to more international observers in conflict zone

    Russia will not object to more international observers being sent to guarantee peace and security in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the comments at the summit of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation in the Tajik capital Dushanbe.
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    Yesterday...   On Russia continuing to encourage the permanent division of Georgia.
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    Bush Slams Russian Recognition of Breakaway Areas 
     
    Last Edited: Tuesday, 26 Aug 2008, 4:26 PM EDT 
    By BEN FELLER
    Associated Press Writer

    CRAWFORD, Texas  --  President Bush on Tuesday urged Russia to reconsider its "irresponsible decision" to shower independent status on two breakaway Georgian provinces. 
     
     
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    Moscow: Military Help for Georgia a "Declaration of War"

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    August 28, 2008

    Moscow has issued an extraordinary warning to the West that military assistance to Georgia for use against South Ossetia or Abkhazia would be viewed as a “declaration of war” by Russia.

    The extreme rhetoric from the Kremlin’s envoy to NATO came as President Dmitry Medvedev stressed he will make a military response to US missile defence installations in eastern Europe, sending new shudders across countries whose people were once blighted by the Iron Curtain.

    And Moscow also emphasised it was closely monitoring what it claims is a build-up of NATO firepower in the Black Sea.

    The incendiary warning on Western military involvement in Georgia - where NATO nations have long played a role in training and equipping the small state - came in an interview with Dmitry Rogozin, a former nationalist politician who is now ambassador to the North Atlantic Alliance.

    “If NATO suddenly takes military actions against Abkhazia and South Ossetia, acting solely in support of Tbilisi, this will mean a declaration of war on Russia,” he stated.

    Yesterday likened the current world crisis to the fevered atmosphere before the start of the First World War.

    Rogozin said he did not believe the crisis would descend to war between the West and Russia.

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    Georgian port is focal point of standoff with Russia
     
    By Shashank Bengali and Dave Montgomery | McClatchy Newspapers
     
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    ...On Wednesday the United States shelved plans to unload 38 tons of humanitarian cargo at Poti, not because the port was closed but to avoid a potential confrontation with Moscow. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Dallas delivered its cargo instead to Batumi, 50 miles to the south.

    Poti is a key element in a network of seaports, railroads, highways and energy pipelines to Azerbaijan and Armenia that makes Georgia a major transit link between East and West. The U.S. Commerce Department has described the sleepy, working-class town of 50,000 people as the most important port in the mountainous Caucasus region, which stretches east and west along Russia's southern border....

    Seaport Photos
     
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    Shanghai Cooperation Organization

    The SCO was formed in 2001, It's membership includes, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The SCO accepted Mongolia as observer to the organization in 04. SCO offered observer status to Pakistan, Iran and India in 05.


    News from Russia on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
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    (The)Dushanbe summit concluded the work of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. In the final declaration of SCO Member States expressed concern about the heated conflict over South Ossetia and called on the parties to solve the problem through peaceful dialogue. Continents, without the recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, they still stood on the side of Russia.

    In this regard, Dmitry Medvedev expressed appreciation for the understanding and objective assessment of our country's peacekeeping efforts in the Caucasus. "I am confident that the position of the Member States of SCO will receive proper international resonance, and I hope this is a serious signal to those who are trying to extradite the black for white," - he said

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    28-08-2008 SCO member countries do not recognize independence of South Ossetia, urge parties for dialogue

    http://www.akipress.com/_en_news.php?id=29181

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    Mr Putin is not a Dictator!
     
    (never mind those giant photos)
     
    This is from a 2006 public event
     
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    Sunday, August 31, 2008
     
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    Sarkozy called Russian recognition of the enclaves "simply unacceptable" but added: "Nobody wants to go back to the time of the Cold War. NATO is not an adversary but a partner of Russia. As for the EU, it seeks to build with this country a close and positive relation. It is for Russia today to make a fundamental choice."
     
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     "...It is for Russia today to make a fundamental choice."
     
    At this point will Mr Putin go back to an earlier status of partnership?
    Or will he remain as Russia's giant talking head?
     
     
     
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