
By Gordon M. Hahn
Readers may recall that in the wake of the August 2008 five-day war in South Ossetia and Russia’s recognition of South Ossetia and Georgia’s other breakaway republic, Abkhazia, as independent states, then U.S. presidential candidate Sen. John McCain proposed that the U.S. support separatism in Russia’s North Caucasus. On March 20-21, the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation and Ilia State University in Tbilisi co-sponsored in the Georgian ...





















