Moscow Times: Medvedev Backs Independence Bids
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posted by FerrasB on August, 2008 as Imperialism
Home page The Moscow Times » Issue 3967 » Bela Szandelszky / AP Russian troops taking up positions around a grazing cow during a search operation near the Black Sea port of Poti, which came under Russian fire Thursday. Medvedev Backs Independence Bids 15 August 2008By Nabi Abdullaev, Nikolaus von Twickel / Staff WritersPresident Dmitry Medvedev signaled Thursday that he would support independence bids by Georgia's separatist provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as Russian troops roamed in Georgia proper, prompting outcries that Moscow was violating a truce reached with Tbilisi this week. "We will support any decisions made by the people of South Ossetia and Abkhazia ... and not only will we support them, but we will guarantee them both in the Caucasus and throughout the world," Medvedev told Abkhaz leader Sergei Bagapsh and his South Ossetian counterpart, Eduard Kokoity, in the Kremlin. The two separatist leaders were in Moscow to sign a document outlining ... >> full
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Yobserver: South Ossetia: A Monumental Miscalculation
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South Ossetia: A Monumental Miscalculation Written By: Gwynne Dyer* Article Date: Aug 16, 2008 - 3:11:40 AM The war in South Ossetia is essentially over, and the Georgians have lost. This was Georgia’s second attempt in eighteen years to conquer the breakaway territory by force, and now that option is gone for good. So are the country’s hopes of joining NATO. Yet sections of the Western media are carrying on as if the Russians started it, and are now threatening to invade Georgia itself. President George W. Bush has condemned Russia’s “disproportionate and dangerous” response, although there is no evidence that Russian ground troops have violated the borders of Georgia proper. Nor are they likely to, but it will make Bush look decisive when it turns out that the Russians do not invade Georgia. Much is made of Russian air attacks on targets inside Georgia, and especially of the inevitable misses that cause civilian casualties, ... >> full
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RIA Novosti Chronicle of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict: Fact sheet 13/08/2008 15:04 In the Soviet times South Ossetia was an autonomous area within Georgia. In 1991 Georgia's first president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, abolished the autonomy. The South Osset
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RIA Novosti Chronicle of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict: Fact sheet 13/08/2008 15:04 In the Soviet times South Ossetia was an autonomous area within Georgia. In 1991 Georgia's first president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, abolished the autonomy. The South Ossetian authorities rejected that decision and put up an armed resistance to the Georgians. In January 1991 open warfare broke out between Georgia and South Ossetia claiming heavy casualties on both sides. After the armed conflict, which lasted until 1992, Georgia lost control over the territory and peacekeeping forces were introduced into the conflict zone. In 1994 talks to settle the conflict began. On May 16, 1996 a memorandum on security and confidence measures between the sides was signed in Moscow. The Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze and South Ossetian President Lyudvig Chibirov had several meetings to discuss ways to end the conflict. Russia was the mediator in the negotiation process. On December 23, 2000 a Russian-Georgian intergovernmental agreement was signed on ... >> full
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RIA Novosti: S.Ossetia, Abkhazia To Seek Sovereignty Under International Law
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RIA Novosti S.Ossetia, Abkhazia to seek sovereignty under international law 14/08/2008 19:33 MOSCOW, August 14 (RIA Novosti) - South Ossetia and Abkhazia will seek independence from Tbilisi under international law, the leaders of Georgia's two rebel regions said Thursday at a joint news conference in Moscow. South Ossetia's Eduard Kokoity said Georgia's attack on August 8 made it possible for the two separatist provinces to seek further international recognition. "Despite the severe blow to our nation, South Ossetians' will and striving for independence remains unchanged," he said. "We will seek independence in strict compliance with international law." His pledge was echoed by Abkhazian President Sergei Bagapsh: "As to our independence, as to our progress toward this goal, no force will make us stop. The goal has been set, and we will advance toward this goal together." Bagapsh said both breakaway provinces ruled out the possibility of talks with Georgia on their status. "There was a little possibility ... >> full
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WOE: Moscow Expert Admits Russian Interest In Blocking Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline
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Monday, August 18, 2008 Window on Eurasia: Moscow Expert Admits Russian Interest in Blocking Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline Paul Goble Vienna, August 18 – A leading Moscow State University expert on the post-Soviet states argues that the Russian Federation’s main goals in Georgia did not include blocking the flow of oil through the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, but she says that “the possibility cannot be excluded” that Moscow was pursuing “other goals” including that. In an interview to MGU’s Information-Analytic Center on the CIS countries, Natalya Kharitonova, the general director of that body, said that “considering the love” Russian and Western experts have for focusing on energy issues, “one ought to have expected” that there would be a discussion of oil in the Georgian conflict (www.ia-centr.ru/expert/1989/). Many experts, she points out, connected the August 6 PKK attack on the pipeline which stopped the flow of oil and the beginning of the military conflict, with some of them implying if ... >> full
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