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Remember when I said Mark Ames was being too hard on CJ Chivers over his coverage of the Georgian conflict? Well.
Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and Russian […]

Mark Ames—yes, the same guy who used to run the much-lamented Exile—has something to say about how the media covered the Russo-Georgian war of last August.
The real question, then, is why the Times waited until this late to question its own position–why wait until the war was long off the front pages, to publish an […]

Robert English has an historical perspective on Georgia:
Large rallies in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi denounced the Abkhazians and Ossetians as “traitors” and “pawns of the Kremlin” while groups of angry Georgians took their protests directly to the Abkhazian and Ossetian capitals of Sukhumi and Tskhinvali. The resulting confrontations often turned violent. A 1989 move […]

C.J. Chivers presents Georgia’s side of “what went wrong.”
Georgia has released intercepted telephone calls purporting to show that part of a Russian armored regiment crossed into the separatist enclave of South Ossetia nearly a full day before Georgia’s attack on the capital, Tskhinvali, late on Aug. 7.
Georgia is trying to counter accusations that the long-simmering […]

One of the challenges in the Russo-Georgian War is that is has characters we’re inclined to lionize and characters we’re inclined to villify. Hence, we have sweet innocent Georgia being bullied by big mean aggressive Russia, and this is the accepted wisdom in the American corps of flappy heads on TV news. The reality, of […]

Onnik Krekorian was at the historic Turkey-Armenia World Cup qualifying match, and has lots of photos and coverage of the politics surrounding it.

It is notable because Turkish President Abdullah Gul traveled to Armenia to watch the proceedings. Onnik covers all of this; his post is worth the read. UEFA President Michel Platini thanked the two […]

That’s the Gospel of Mark, and I think it will help me discuss the latest talking point from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, dealing as it does with the alphabet soup of international and supranational organizations. And, for the first but not last time, my studies have caught up with my blogging! This week’s […]