Russia/Georgia Situation News & Updates

What was that about Bush being impeached? Is that a new development or just chatter?

Georgia forced to accept a Russian occupation
President Saakashvili was forced to accept defeat yesterday as he signed a peace agreement that gives the Russian Army the right to patrol on Georgian soil.

In a critical amendment to the ceasefire drawn up by President Sarkozy of France, the Kremlin forced Mr Saakashvili to accept that Russian troops could control a buffer zone of Georgian territory up to 10km beyond the border of the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

www.timesonline.co.uk...

Georgia: Defiant Russia advances after ceasefire
Russia has defied a ceasefire agreement concluded in the presence of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and moved more troops into advanced positions deep inside Georgia.
www.telegraph.co.uk...

Military brings in aid for Georgia
The Pentagon has flown 86 tons of humanitarian supplies into the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on two C-17 and two C-130 aircraft as of Friday, a top military official said.

www.washtimes.com...

Propagandists turn to Dick Cheney plot
RUSSIANS were told over breakfast yesterday what really happened in Georgia: the conflict in South Ossetia was part of a plot by US Vice-President Dick Cheney to stop Barack Obama being elected president of the US.

The line came on the main news of Vesti FM, a state radio station that -- like the Government and much of Russia's media -- has reverted to the old habits of Soviet years, inwhich a sinister US hand washeld to lie behind every conflict, especially those embarrassing to Moscow.

www.theaustralian.news.com.au...

David Cameron warns Russia must not dictate Nato membership
David Cameron, the opposition leader, warned Russia must not be allowed to dictate the composition of Nato as he met with Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili to express British solidarity with the beleaguered nation.
www.telegraph.co.uk...

Strongman Putin on the blitz
YOU have to hand it to the Bush administration. It is very ballsy. Even in its dying days, with its military stretched in the Middle East, it managed, after an initial few days of dithering and hoping the Russians would come to their senses, to find a remarkably effective response to the Russian invasion of Georgia. The US sent its military to deliver humanitarian aid to Georgia. It did this after the Russians had committed to a ceasefire. The Georgians immediately and deliberately misinterpreted the move as meaning that the US would be guarding Georgia's seaports and airports.

www.theaustralian.news.com.au...

RUSSIA'S GEORGIA WIN
THE DARK LORD'S 'DESTINY'
AS the Russian Dark Lord's shadow falls across the shires of freedom once again, the response from the West has been confused, belated and inadequate: fear eclipsed courage; ignorance masqueraded as wisdom; and, in "Old Europe," greed vanquished justice.

www.nypost.com...

History's Back
Ambitious autocracies, hesitant democracies
One wonders whether Russia's invasion of Georgia will finally end the dreamy complacency that took hold of the world's democracies after the close of the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet Union offered for many the tantalizing prospect of a new kind of international order. The fall of the Communist empire and the apparent embrace of democracy by Russia seemed to augur a new era of global convergence.
www.weeklystandard.com...

Don't abandon Georgia to Moscow's 'sphere of influence'
Foolish Georgians for baiting the Russian bear. Silly Americans for egging them on.

Armchair strategists are wagging fingers over the supposed naiveté of Georgia and its superpower ally over the conflict in the Caucasus. In this blame-the-victim analysis, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili started the whole thing by attacking separatists in South Ossetia, giving Russian leader Vladimir Putin the perfect excuse to respond in force. Washington encouraged the Georgian hothead by pumping him up with praise and making him think that it would gallop to his aid, while in fact it has no power at all to help.

www.theglobeandmail.com...

Timeline: Key Events in Russian-Georgian Relations
The standoff between Russia and Georgia has been years in the making. Here are some key events influencing the relationship recently:

www.washingtonpost.com...

How Russian and Georgian forces stack up
Below are details of how Georgian and Russian armed forces compare
www.latimes.com...

Hm.

Bush said a major issue was Russia's contention that the regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia might not be part of Georgia's future.

"But these regions are a part of Georgia, and the international community has repeatedly made clear that they will remain so," Bush said. "There's no room for debate on this matter."

AlertNet

(A few hours later...)

20:00 According to the reports from Akhalgori district, Russian troops have started proposing Russian passports to the local population.

mfa.gov.ge


Nice move, Russia.

Factbox: International Reaction to South Ossetia Conflict
The United States, NATO and the European Union called for an immediate end to fighting in Georgia's South Ossetia region and called for talks between the sides.

www.washingtonpost.com...

A catastrophe in the making
Donald Tusk, Poland’s Prime Minister, could not have chosen his words better when he told his countrymen: “We have crossed the Rubicon.” He was speaking after the signing of an agreement with America to base ten US interceptor missiles on Polish soil, ostensibly to protect the West against rogue states such as Iran. To clinch the deal, the US also agreed to boost Poland’s defence with Patriot missiles and to conclude a mutual defence treaty “in case of trouble”.

www.timesonline.co.uk...

POLAND CHOOSES SIDES
Even as Russia yesterday continued its heavy-handed intimidation of the former Soviet bloc, the government of Poland sent a message of its own to Moscow.

After 18 months of talks, Warsaw agreed to place a US missile-defense base on Polish soil, while Washington committed America to defend Poland "in case of trouble" - presumably of the military variety.

www.nypost.com...

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Ease up on the posting, eh?

This is information overload!

Originally posted by chips
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Ease up on the posting, eh?

This is information overload!

Np ill let peeps digest this stuff.I need to give my brain a break too.

reply to post by Justice11


Yeah, that's cool, bro.

You are definitely a credit to the thread, though!

Keep up the good work, sir.

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No kidding, I've been reading into the prelude of this conflict... Talking about information overload and then digesting it lol.

Here's an interesting article I came across:

Russian railroad workers complete their task in Abkhazia

It was written before the conflict broke out.

[edit on 16-8-2008 by -Rugged Shark-]