Yesterday, the government in Tbilisi announced that it cut diplomatic ties with Russia to protest the continued presence of Russian troops in Georgian territory. The situation in Eurasia is not improving. Russia’s decision to recognize the “independence” of South Ossetia and Abkhazia was particularly problematic since these two regions are part of Georgia.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev appealed to China and other Central Asian nations to show its support for Russia’s actions in Georgia at a Shangai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tajikistan today. International press offered conflicting analysis, which of course, is no surprise. What is striking, however, is that the break was not along traditional media [...]
Moscow keeps upping the ante. Today, the Kremlin announced that it is willing to use means other than diplomacy to respond to further development of the U.S. missile defense system in Poland. According to the Associated Press,
Russia lashed out at the United States on Wednesday over a missile defense deal with Poland and [...]
Defense analysts who once believed that Dmitry Medvedev’s Kremlin would differ from Vladimir Putin’s now have their answer. Russia needs to withdraw its forces from Georgia immediately. Here’s an article from Bloomberg News:
Russia Is Waging `Full-Scale War’ Over S. Ossetia, Georgia Says
By Alex Nicholson
Aug. 9 (Bloomberg) — Georgia accused Russia of waging “full-scale war,” as [...]
Henry Kissinger wrote an interesting piece in today’s Washington Post on the future of U.S.-Russian relations under the leadership of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Kissinger is optimistic about the future of the relationship between to the two states, even though relations have cooled in recent years between President Bush and former President Vladimir Putin. In [...]