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• Facing down the Eurosceptics and neocons

  
  Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness — Authority: 474
  I’m sure this post will foreshadow a more erudite article, around a similar theme, at Burke’s Corner . I’d imagine that BC is adamantly buffing his polished philosophical prose as we speak. Nevertheless, I like Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s latest Comment is Free piece enough to offer my own, doubtless rather ...
  3 days ago

• Russian streets in Tbilisi

  
  FINROSFORUM — Authority: 127
  Two streets in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, have been renamed in honour of two prominent human rights activists from Russia: investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya and film director and actress Olga Konskaya.The former Vladimir Djikia Street in the Tbilisi’s Vake-Saburtalo district is now Anna Politkovskaya ...
  6 days ago

• Will Guantánamo Prisoners Be Released In Georgia? by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk30 October 2009Last week, Molly Corso, a freelance journalist based in Tbilisi, Georgia, got in touch with me regarding rumors that the Georgian government was considering accepting a number of cleared prisoners from Guantánamo, in connection ...
  1 week ago

• Will Guantanamo Prisoners Be Released to Georgia?

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 501
  Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. Photo credit: Wikipedia Last week, Molly Corso, a freelance journalist based in Tbilisi, Georgia, got in touch with me regarding rumors that the Georgian government was considering accepting a number of cleared prisoners from Guantánamo, in connection with an article that ...
  1 week ago

• Facebook plays host to Georgian Orthodox Church-related scandal

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 814
  One of Georgia’s – and the world’s – favourite new(ish) toys has become the forum for what many here see as an inexcusable attack on one of Georgia’s oldest and most venerated institutions.Facebook, which is hugely popular among young Georgians and which often hosts vibrant and diverse debates on the ...
  1 week ago

• The Rosé Revolution

  
  Eternal Remont: — Authority: 477
  You may recall that back in 2006, the Kremlin was not dealing too well with color revolutions. And after Georgians Rose Revolution, the Kremlin felt Georgia was abandoning its Soviet overlords for the glitz and glamour of the West. Abandoment issues are very real. So as a way of acting out, the Kremlin banned the ...
  2 weeks ago

• FSB chief claims Georgia - al Qaeda cooperation

  
  Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness — Authority: 474
  The Pankisi Gorge in Georgia, which borders Chechnya, has long provided a transit route for money, weapons and militants into and out of the Russian republic. It has been alleged that al Qaeda operates training camps in the region . Alexander Bortnikov, head of Russia’s FSB, has gone further and claimed that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hollywood film about Russia-Georgia war being shot

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Moscow/Tbilisi, Oct 19 (DPA) Hollywood actor Andy Garcia was in Tbilisi preparing to star in a film about last year’s war between Russia and Georgia, media reports said Monday.Garcia is to play Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in the film by director Renny Harlin, according to the Interfax news agency.The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Go, Georgia, Go! Limit the State!

  
  tomgpalmer.com — Authority: 427
  EurasiaNet.org: GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI WANTS TBILISI TO BECOME “GOVERNMENT-LITE” Ilia Chavchavadze The Georgian leader used a reference to a national cultural icon, the revered 19th century novelist Ilia Chavchavadze, to sway any doubters who believe that liberalism is “a non-Georgian word.” ...
  3 weeks ago

• Georgian leader for probing US role in ‘rose revolution’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Tbilisi, Oct 14 (RIA Novosti) The head of Georgia’s Labour party Tuesday urged Washington to investigate the involvement of some US officials in “bankrolling” Georgia’s “rose revolution” in 2003.Labour Party leader Shalva Natelashvili urged the US government to appoint a special prosecutor. He said that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bush Blamed for Russia-Georgia War

  
  The Disaffected Lib — Authority: 472
  It was no surprise this week when an independent EU fact-finding commission reported that Georgia started its 5-day war with Russia in August, 2008. But a member of that commission, writing in The New York Times , says their report left out the role George w. Bush played in the outbreak of that conflict and in ...
  5 weeks ago

• The US, Georgia and Russia

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 814
  There’s an interesting opinion piece about the EU report on the Georgia-Russia war in today’s New York Times. It’s by Jorg Himmelreich, a member of the commission which wrote the report and it argues that there was one crucial ingredient missing from the document: an evaluation of the Bush administration’s ...
  5 weeks ago

• Tourism - the great white hope of Georgia

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 814
  Having just returned from my summer holidays in Spain and France, my mind is on tourism and how often it is expected to be a magical balm to heal economic hurt.In Asturias in northern Spain I came across a gorgeous protected natural park. In flicking through the literature about the park, I noted the observation [...]
  8 weeks ago

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