Search:

Our Man in Tbilisi: Fifteen Years Ago, a Bullet Felled CIA Agent Freddie Woodruff. Was It the First Shot in a New Cold War With Russia?, By ANDREW HIGGINS. The Wall Street Journal, OCTOBER 18, 2008.

Georgia and the Balance of Power, By George Friedman. The New York Review of Books, Volume 55, Number 14 · September 25, 2008.


From Mark Galeotti's new blog In Moscow's Shadow:

August 26:...

More from Thomas Goltz:

Of Georgia, Jamtland and the Texas Solution. Tbilisi/Baku, August 28, 2008. Pulitzer Center

It seems that is kind of the aim, I’ve read this, but I don’t know this. The Siloviki, nationalist, goal: consolidate as much power internally with your group, and cut-off with the world. And this...

Since the start of the recent hostilities I have been scanning the news in vein looking for something by Thomas Goltz, the author of several books I've read on the Caucasus. Goltz is a great, he's a...

Bombing the pipelines, or almost hitting them, on top of this skirmish is going to kill the investment climate in Georgia. This is important because it will likely kill plans for the Nabucco gas line...

Not the BTC, reportedly it was the Baku-Supsa line, Steve Levine wrote on his blog Oil & Glory:

BTC was declared force majeure on Aug 5 from an explosion in Eastern Turkey the PKK is taking...

Maybe, or just keep the conflict hot enough to put the kibosh on Georgia (and the other candidate Ukraine) being voted into NATO membership come December.

August 5 there was an explosion on the BTC pipeline in eastern Turkey, still hasn't been extinguished, PKK is claiming responsibility. Is there any possibility that the Russian's, who have long...