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Donald RayfieldDonald Rayfield is emeritus professor of the School of Modern Languages, Queen Mary University of London. Among his books is Stalin and his Hangmen (Random House, 2005), which has appeared in five other languages and will soon be published in Russian. He is editor-in-chief of the recently published Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary (Garnett Press, 2006), a work of 1440,000 entries and nearly 1800 pages in two volumes. Recent articlesRussia vs Georgia: a war of perceptions
An intimate past and bitter present make it hard for Russians and Georgians to live as neighbours but impossible to separate completely, says Donald Rayfield. Georgia and Russia: with you, without youWine and roses, spies and sanctions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia...Tbilisi's long, intimate and turbulent relationship with Moscow has gone badly wrong. Donald Rayfield explains how and why. This article was first published on 3 October 2006 |
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