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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tbilisi/Moscow - Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Friday again called on Russia to withdraw from Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Georgia will never accept Russian occupation of either region nor Moscow's recognitio...
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SONS OF MALCOLM (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
“Georgia must rebuild its ties to Russia” Wednesday, 08 October 2008 Interview with Lasha Shawdia, Anti-war Movement Georgia Anti-Imperialist Camp Q: Did Georgia’s president Saakashvili emerge from his war of last summer weakened or strengthened? Definitely weakened. It is a tragic mistake to believe that the territorial integrity of our country can be resorted by military means, a mistake to be paid...
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At Home In The Wasteland (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Several days ago the NYTimes published this article on the decline of press freedom under Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili. If you've been following Saakashvili since his ascension to the Georgian presidency, then there is really nothing in this article that...
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The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
If you sensed last August that something didn't quite smell right with the Russia-Georgia spat and John McCain's deep and passionate involvement in it from the start, you might want to read the always interesting Thomas P. Barnett. McCain played...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
GEORGIA’S OPPOSITION has called for an independent investigation into the origins of the war with Russia in August, amid growing discontent inside the country with President Mikheil Saakashvili and demands that he resign.
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The American Conservative (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
The new issue of World Affairs includes a symposium on the American election as seen from abroad. And guess where the first entry comes from? That’s right–Raphael Glucksmann gushes from Tbilisi, where John McCain is very popular indeed, at least among the cronies of President Mikheil Saakashvili: I headed back to my hotel where an adviser [...]
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foreign notes (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
A week or so ago I mentioned allegations that president Yushchenko had been selling and supplying illicit Ukrainian-made arms to his pal Makheil Saakashvili at knock-down prices, and that a recent explosion at an ammunition dump may have provided 'cover'. The sale of Ukrainian arms to Georgia was a thread that ran through Tymoshenko's otherwise cordial talks with president Putin last Thursday. At their...
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Naval Open Source INTelligence (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
A scandal on government-inspired illegal arm supplies to Georgia gathers strength in Ukraine. A parliamentary investigative commission has already revealed facts on supplying arms worth a whopping 200 million dollars to the Saakashvili regime, including air defense missiles and multiple rocket launchers the Georgians used on August 8 in their attempt to raze the South Ossetian capital Tskhinval to...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
A large group of influential Georgian opposition leaders has mounted a blistering political campaign against U.S.-backed President Mikhail Saakashvili, accusing his government of running an autocratic regime that tramples human rights and stifles democracy.
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A Step At A Time (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Saakashvili: Threat of Russian Aggression Persists Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 2 Oct.’08 / 19:03 http://civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=19660 Russia has failed to achieve its major goals in Georgia and therefore the threat of Russian aggression still persists, President Saakashvili said on October 2 at a meeting with the command of the Georgian armed forces. He said that Georgia did not want the [...]
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Wampum (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko sold Mikheil Nikolozis dze Saakashvili almost half of the Ukraine's inventory of Buk-M1 medium range, and 200 Strela and IGLA man-portable air defence missiles, as well as some T-72 main battle tanks and 122 mm multiple-launch rocket systems. The former is a serious concern for figuring out who Yushchenko really is, as sending half the Ukraine's medium range air defense...
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Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said on Tuesday that he expected the situation in his country to stabilize with the upcoming withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana is to meet with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and address European monitors who will be overseeing compliance that Georgia and Russia are honouring the EU-brokered peace plan.
