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Georgia WarGeorgian refugees from Abkhazia ask whether they will ever be able to go home
On a visit to the separatist republic of Abkhazia a week before the Russia-Georgia war in August 2008, openDemocracy/Russia editor Zygmunt Dzieciolowski was aware of growing tension. If war did break out, the locals knew that they would be the ones who paid the price.
The latest round in the conflict between
Georgia and Russia/South Ossetia is a propaganda war
Tanya Lokshina presents a major report by Human Rights Watch
It is time for a larger vision for the Caucasus that can provide hope of inclusive progress in the face of many obstacles
In defiance of the Medvedev-Sarkozy plan, Russian troops are not allowing international observers into the mountainous region of Akhalgori/ Leningori, east of Tskhinvali. But Varvara Pakhomenko of the human rights organisation Demos managed to reach this place which, though 80% Georgian, technically belongs in South Ossetia.
The currents of solidarity and fissure in the Caucasus mosaic elude Russia's control
The next American president, together with the efforts from European allies, must address failed strategies of the past in order to prevent the West (and Georgia for that matter) from stumbling into an expanded war in the Caucasus.
"The house has only just burnt down." The aged Georgian villagers of South Ossetia need help
The ex-president's combative outlook has shaped Russia's policy towards Georgia and the west
Russia 19th-century thinking could yet snatch defeat from its 21st-century victory in Georgia
Russia's Caucasus policy means domestic trouble, says Ivan Sukhov
A new Black Sea state emerges from the Georgia-Russia war. But how independent is it?
Now the fighting is over what
matters is not surrendering to conspiracy theorists or isolationism, but arriving
at sensible compromises, polit.ru's editor writes from Moscow
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
The new Caucasus war exposes the problem of Georgia - and
of western myths about the country
As Russian troops move into the
Georgian port of Poti and destroy military installations Pepsikolka's blog chronicles life hovering between
fear and an illusion of normality.
The Russian assault on Georgia is a
political challenge to the west and an existential one to Tbilisi, writes Georgia's education minister
Russian troops are today, 14 August, alleged to have entered the Black
Sea port of Poti. In this second, vivid instalment
of pepsiKolka's blog captures
the fear of living in war, of not knowing what's happening, whose those tanks
are, and whether or not to be afraid. To be continued...
The main cost of an unnecessary and callous war is being paid by civilians on both sides
Georgia's blitzkrieg against one of its breakaway territories is a
political disaster for its president.
Georgia's effort to win back its lost territory by force was always going to backfire
The unrecognised republic of Abkhazia lies at the heart of the
Georgia-Russia dispute. George Hewitt, leading scholar of Abkhazian
language and identity, considers how the Abkhaz today view their own
future.
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