Archive for August, 2008

Ukraine Should At Last Assert Its Sovereignty in Sevastopol

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

The Georgian-Russian conflict has again shown to what degree Russia does not respect the national sovereignty of its neighbours. Russia, in freezing conflicts in Georgia, Moldova and through Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh, has supported their de facto independence while, in true Soviet double speak, "supporting Georgia and Moldova's territorial integrity". Similarly ...

Georgia on my Mind

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Georgia's war with Russia over the separatist enclave of South Ossetia is bad news for Ukraine in three ways. If Georgia loses the conflict with Russia, or is forced into a humiliating withdrawal from South Ossetia, the Mikhail Saakashvili regime could be overthrown and replaced by a pro-Russian regime. Pro-Russian Georgian ...

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