Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... Rice told reporters.Rice then gave some bullet points. Russia, she said, had failed to topple the Georgian government or flatten its economy and failed to rally mainstream support for its position that two breakaway Georgian regions deserve recognition as independent states.Although Russian forces remain in those regions, despite objections from the US and other countries,...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... cease-fire commitments, or "acting on its quite ill-tempered decision" to recognize two breakaway Georgian provinces as independent."Those are ... the touchstones of when it makes sense," Rice told reporters during a goodbye stop in London on Monday. She has more goodbyes Tuesday in Brussels, where she sees NATO allies.Two days of NATO talks had been expected to focus on Georgia's and Ukraine's...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... cease-fire commitments, or "acting on its quite ill-tempered decision" to recognize two breakaway Georgian provinces as independent."Those are ... the touchstones of when it makes sense," Rice told reporters during a goodbye stop in London on Monday. She has more goodbyes Tuesday in Brussels, where she sees NATO allies.Two days of NATO talks had been expected to focus on Georgia's and Ukraine's...
The Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... invasion had "turned out badly for Russia, very badly" because the Russians did not bring down the Georgian government. Possibly the Russians had observed someone else's attempt at regime change and decided it might not be worth the bother. They also "managed to increase international support for Georgia, not decrease it", the word international here having its usual White House connotation...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... contacts that seem to me to be problematic when the Russian military is sitting in Georgian territory or the separatist states," she told reporters after meeting British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.At the Brussels talks, foreign ministers will also review a decision to suspend high-level meetings on the main NATO-Russia dialogue forum, the NATO-Russia Council, following the conflict...
Schneider Home (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
The Georgian Government is having its equivalent of the 9/11 commission for the summer's war with its "Temporary Commission to Study Russia’s Military Aggression and Other Actions Undertaken With the Aim to Infringe Georgia’s Territorial Integrity". I'm sure it will be totally balanced with a title like that. Some other's a speculating wildly, and others are settling down to theses and...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... to Russia who said Tbilisi had convinced itself that it had the blessing of the United States.The Georgian government, Saakashvili said, undertook "a military operation in order to offer resistance to a large-scale Russian intervention, a widescale assault on a peaceful population."On Thursday, DefenE Minister David Kezerashvili told the commission that Georgia had attacked the rebel...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Warsaw - The head of security for Polish President Lech Kaczynski was fired after shooting rang out on Sunday near the Polish and Georgian presidential motorcade near the South Ossetian border, local media reported on Thursday. Colonel Krzysztof Olsz...
