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As a European Union report into last year’s conflict between Georgia and Russia puts a large part of the blame on Georgia, the BBC’s Tom Esslemont in Tbilisi asks where this leaves the small Caucasian nation.
Even before the EU-sponsored report was...
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Russia has now turned into a “criminal state”, according to the man who was once its leading foreign investor.
Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital was...
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Ayear on from last August’s war, the evidence on the ground shows that despite claims to the contrary, tiny South Ossetia has effectively been absorbed into...
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Georgia’s pro-Western President said yesterday that , remained determined to kill him as part of ambitions to restore Russia’s former Soviet empire.
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