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The world may have the final say on an epic United States campaign
Russia's Caucasus policy means domestic trouble. Plus: Tanya Lokshina's stunning Tskhinvali report, Inal Khashig on the west's Abkhaz lesson, Zygmunt Dzieciolowski on Sukhumi's case
The Chinese people themselves were winners in a great sporting festival
Religions need to honestly see the outsider as a constituent of themselves to be true to their open promise.
The political legacy of Pakistan’s former general-president is a kaleidoscope of crises
What is the prospect for an end to Burma’s long dictatorship? A look inside a complex political order
A focus on human safety and return of displaced persons ought to guide attitudes to Abkhaz and South Ossetian independence
Georgia's polity has survived the test of war. Now its president faces an acute domestic challenge The autonomy of local agents in a nationalist grip is a neglected element of international politics
Scotland's leader has exposed the limits of nationalism as a response to neo-liberalism
Moscow’s war in Georgia and Tehran’s nuclear project highlight the west's strategic failings
Russia still wants regime change in Tbilisi. Georgia says no - and emerges the moral victor, says the country's education minister
The global spectacle in Beijing is also a test for the next generation of China’s leaders
If Obama wins, the outreach of this peacable figure could send confusing tremors southwards
openRussia takes off: Zygmunt Dzieciolowski in Sukhumi meets Abkhazia's president, while Boris Dolgin in Russia looks at the lessons of a dirty war for both sides
Russia 19th-century thinking could yet snatch defeat from its 21st-century victory in Georgia
The Dark Knight offers - via Slavoj Zizek - a bleak insight into democracy's post-9/11 moral void
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