Posts Tagged ‘South Ossetia’
Posted on August 10, 2008 - by Venik
Saakashvili’s Army on the Run
Not three days ago Saakashvili’s US-trained death squads were using Czech-made heavy artillery and US-supplied helicopters to bombard residential areas of South Ossetia’s capital, killing an estimated 2,000 civilians and sending some 30,000 refugees to neighboring Russia. Today, with tails between their legs, Georgian soldiers are running back to Tbilisi, pursued by Russian tanks and [...]
Posted on August 10, 2008 - by Venik
War in Georgia: What’s Coming
The EU wants to blame Russia for the escalating conflict in Georgia, but Brussels cannot ignore the terrible casualties inflicted by Georgian artillery on the civilian population of South Ossetia. Today’s visit to Tbilisi by France’s foreign minister suggests that Saakashvili is being pressured by the EU to back down. The US, on the other [...]
Posted on August 9, 2008 - by Venik
Georgia on a Path to Self-Destruction
I lived in Tbilisi for about a year when I was in sixth grade. Some of my best childhood memories are from that time now more than twenty years ago. My father’s family moved to Tbilisi in 1941, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. My father was three years old then. He spent his [...]
Posted on August 8, 2008 - by Venik
Timeline of Georgia-Russia Conflict
Reuters just published a “TIMELINE – Georgia and Russia’s worsening relations” (August 8, 2008; http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN08472548). As the poor and tiny Georgia, under the guidance of its fearless US-educated leader, is desperately trying to start a war with Russia, I find it is important to amend the Reuters’ accurate but incomplete timeline with some of the [...]
Posted on March 29, 2008 - by Venik
Russia and the US heading toward a confrontation
It seems that Russia and the US are moving toward some major headbutting in April. First, there’s the issue of Kosovo and the announcement by the US that it intends to provide weapons to the breakaway province. Russia opposes the move, saying that this would be a violation of the UN SC Resolution 1244 (which [...]
