Crisis in Georgia
Analysis and eyewitness accounts of the conflict in the Caucasus
In Georgia
'Everything is in ruins'
- By Viv Groskop
- 20 November 2008
The war with Russia last August has devastated Georgia: work and even food are now scarce. And Georgians fear that worse is to come
Did Kosovo open up Pandora’s Box?
- By Judy Fu
- 15 September 2008
If the international community intends to keep the floodgates to secessionist movements closed, it would do well to learn from Abkhazia and South Ossetia writes UNPO's Judy Fu
Is Ukraine next?
- By Andrey Kurkov
- 04 September 2008
With Georgia in pieces, Ukraine could be the next to fall to Russia's territorial ambition, separatist sentiment and economic realities. Andrey Kurkov reports
Hard power in the Caucasus
- By Alexandros Petersen
- 03 September 2008
Russia's willingness to break the so-called international rules of territorial integrity is less a challenge to the ideas and ideals of those institutions than a threat to the military and political frameworks that underpin them
Beginning of the end for Putinism
- By Roger Boyes
- 28 August 2008
Many Russians persist in viewing Putin as a superman. If truth be told he is a failure
Georgia: the aftermath
- By Matt Siegel
- 21 August 2008
As Russian forces begin to withdraw, we are learning more about the events of the short but brutal war over South Ossetia. Matt Siegel reports from Tskhinvali and Gori, while local people give eyewitness accounts of the devastation
“We screamed from the horror of it all”
- By Svetlana Graudt
- 21 August 2008
Eyewitness accounts of the conflict in Georgia
A responsibility to protect?
- By Elena Jurado
- 15 August 2008
The extent to which Russia agrees to play by international rules will depend on the willingness of the west to integrate them into a shared international order
More blood for oil!
- By Paul Evans
- 15 August 2008
Illegal invasions by imperialist armies are fine, so long they’re committed by Russia plus the common link between the Dalai Lama, Mahmoud Abbas and Elvis Presley
Tajikistan's man in London
- By Syed Hamad Ali
- 15 August 2008
Tajikistan's first ever ambassador to the UK, Erkin Kasymov, says that before 9/11 the international community did not pay attention to his region. Syed Hamad Ali finds out more about the central Asian republic
Also in Georgia
Drawing a blank on Georgia
- By Iain Simons
- 15 August 2008
The controversy over the missing maps of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Was it deliberate? Google says not.
A united Europe is the most effective way to deal with Russia
- 14 August 2008
Europe has considerable “soft power”. Using it intelligently is the best way to defend Russia’s bullied former satellites
Superpower swoop
- By Misha Glenny
- 14 August 2008
What Russia and America are really doing in Georgia and who set the trap? Vladimir Putin and his thuggish FSB pals or Dick Cheney and his equally unflappable neocon friends?
Brown and Miliband Left Standing
- By Martin Bright
- 12 August 2008
As Nicolas Sarkozy races to Tbilisi with his foreign minister Bernard Kouchner, Britain is stuck in the starting blocks
Top 10 war quotes
- 11 August 2008
As Russia's incursion into Georgian territory continues, newstatesman.com looks at quotes on the subject of war
