Posted in Diplomacy, Europe, Georgia, Government, Military, Russia, tagged 2008 Georgia War, Georgia, ICC, Mikheil Saakashvili, Russia, Sergei Lavrov, south ossetia on August 8, 2011|
UPI | August 8, 2011
MOSCOW — Russia, on the anniversary of its war with Georgia, said the country’s president is “ill-bred” though it didn’t make the same claim against the Georgian people.
Russian forces responded when the Georgian military invaded the separatist republic of South Ossetia in 2008. The conflict spilled over to engulf forces from Abkhazia, another separatist republic. (more…)
Posted in Actors, Central Asia, Country, Displacement, Georgia, Government, Military, Peacekeepers, Region, Type of Harm, tagged Abkhazia, EU monitors, Georgia, IDPs, internally displaced people, Internally Displaced Persons, Joe Biden, Mikheil Saakashvili, monitoring, Nicaragua, Our Georgia, refugees, Russia, south ossetia, Tbilisi, WU mission on July 28, 2009|
Source: Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA)
Date: 28 Jul 2009
Helen Maguire, dpa
Tbilisi_(dpa) _ Since last summer’s war with Russia over the country’s breakaway provinces, Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili may have felt at times like a man under siege. (more…)
Posted in Actors, Central Asia, Country, Diplomacy, Foreign Aid, Georgia, Government, Military, Other, Region, tagged Abkhazia, Georgia, Joe Biden, Mikheil Saakashvili, militarism, Russia, South Ossetiam, Tbilisi, us on July 24, 2009|
By ELLEN BARRY
TBILISI, Georgia — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. gave a rousing speech at Georgia’s Parliament building on Tuesday, raising his voice to a shout in denunciation of Russia’s “19th-century notion of spheres of influence,” and urging the world not to formally recognize the separatist territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. He received standing ovations, one after another. (more…)
Posted in Actors, Central Asia, Country, Foreign Aid, Georgia, Government, Military, Other, Property Damage, Region, Type of Harm, tagged Abhkazia, aid, Dmitri A. Medvedev, European Union, Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, rebuilding, Russia, Russian troops, south ossetia, Vladimir Putin on July 14, 2009|
14 July 2009
By Nikolaus von Twickel / The Moscow Times
President Dmitry Medvedev pledged support for South Ossetia’s separatist leadership during a surprise visit Monday that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili condemned as Russia’s “most immoral and shameful precedent in centuries.” (more…)
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