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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 10, 2009

  Contradictions in U.S. foreign policy

(Taken from CubaDebate) AFTER the G-20 Summit that captured the world’s attention, news continued arriving via the agencies on the feverish activity of the man who was the star in London, Barack Obama, the new president of the United States, who is approaching the 100th day of his...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Dec 4, 2008

  Will NATO survive without Ukraine and Georgia?

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev) - Neither Ukraine nor Georgia received the Membership Action Plan (MAP) status at the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels. This was so clear that the issue was not even discussed. In NATO, one vote is enough to reject a...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 10, 2008

  After Bush, Obama must catch up with Russia

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - George Bush Jr. has managed to cultivate such a strong feeling against his White House in the world and has dented US reputation so badly that any change on Pennsylvania Avenue is like a breath of fresh air. The new US...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 27, 2008

  How Russia Clobbered Georgia and Lost the War

(Prof. Piotr Dutkiewicz for RIA Novosti) - Some critics have pointed to the conflict in Georgia as another example of botched Bush administration foreign policy, but in fact America's real strategy was brilliantly executed and it achieved exactly the intended outcome. Unfortunately it's not an...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 27, 2008

  Western leaders blast Russia for recognizing Abkhazia, S.Ossetia

MOSCOW, August 26 (RIA Novosti) - Foreign leaders spoke out Tuesday against Russia's decision to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia, while people in the Georgian breakaway regions greeted the news with raucous celebrations. Britain, the United States, Germany, France and Italy expressed...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 26, 2008

  NATO – the paper alliance

(John Laughland for RIA Novosti) - As the dust settles on the conflict in South Ossetia - and as it vanishes progressively from the headlines in the Western press - one thing has become overwhelmingly clear. It is that Georgia will now never join NATO and that the balance of power in the world...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 21, 2008

  From Kosovo to South Ossetia: in search of a precedent

MOSCOW. (Oksana Antonenko, Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies for RIA Novosti) - When Europe and the US advocated the independence of Kosovo, many experts warned that its impact on the Caucasus would be destabilising. The Allies responded by repeating that Kosovo...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 20, 2008

  NATO's 'Caucasus Council'

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political observer Andrei Fedyashin) - The emergency NATO Council session held in Brussels on August 19 at America's request to give Russia its "comeuppance" did not go smoothly. It took the ministers several hours to hammer out the final communique. In the end it turned...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 17, 2008

  Background to conflict: independent streak of breakaway republics

Both South Ossetia and Abkhazia fought wars of independence with Georgia in the early 90s - and won de facto sovereignty. But the roots of the conflict between Georgia and its breakaway regions can be traced back much further. Both breakaway republics are striving for a future that is...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 16, 2008

  Chronicle of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict: Fact sheet

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...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 13, 2008

  Cannon fodder for the market

Reflections of Fidel: PERHAPS some governments are unaware of the concrete facts, and so for that reason Raúl’s message setting Cuba’s position seemed to us to be very timely. I shall be generous in the aspects that cannot be dealt with in a brief and precise official statement. ...... [view]

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