Baltic Times (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
RIGA- 30 military officials from Georgia Latvia will receive 30 military officials from Georgia, who will come to the Baltic state for a medical rehabilitation course costing close to 20,000 lats (28,500 euro). The Latvian government on Dec. 2 upheld the Health Ministry’s proposal for granting
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
TBILISI, Georgia Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on Friday defended the decisions made in the run-up to the August war with Russia, telling a parliamentary commission that Georgia had re...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Georgia's former ambassador to Russia said Wednesday that Georgian officials perceived a July visit by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as encouragement for the use of force against South Ossetia. Former ambassador Erosi Kitsmarishvili also said people in Saakashvili's circle told Kitsmarishvili that Rice "gave the green light" — something Rice herself has denied.
Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
BY MOLLY CORSO Georgian aspirations to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization remain in a holding pattern after the military alliance offered Georgia closer cooperation, but stopped short of agreeing to a full-fledged Membership Action Plan. Some Georgian analysts believe that the lack of a cohesive message from the alliance is a bad signal for Tbilisi.
Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
BY MOLLY CORSO In a sharp reversal from earlier statements, Georgian officials are now playing down hopes that Georgia will receive a Membership Action Plan at the December 2-3 meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization foreign ministers in Brussels.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... commission investigating the causes and conduct of the August war in which Russia routed the Georgian military and drove deep into Georgian territory. The war caused severe damage to Georgia's economy and aggravated already troubled relations between Moscow and Washington - a staunch backer of Saakashvili.Georgia's former ambassador to Russia said this week that Georgian officials...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
TBILISI, Georgia Claims that the United States gave Georgia the green light to forcibly retake separatist South Ossetia, sparking a five-day war with Russia, are "utter nonsense," President Mikhail Saakashvili said on Friday.
Saakashvili spoke before testifying to a parliamentary commission investigating the causes and conduct of the August war in which Russia routed the Georgian military...
Donklephant (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Keep in mind that the following is coming from a critic of the Georgian administration, but he was an insider and he also went before his own government to give his assessment of the situation. From BBC: Erosi Kitsmarishvili, a former envoy to Russia, was testifying at a parliamentary commission hearing into the war the breakaway Georgian [...]
