Nato allies divided over Ukraine and Georgia

Washington and several of its European allies were divided last night over how to respond to Georgia’s and Ukraine’s bids to join Nato and over whether to resume high-level Nato-Russia contacts frozen because of the Russian invasion of Georgia in August.

Georgia violated UN charter – UN Assembly chief

Georgia commited an act of aggression and violated the UN charter by invading South Ossetia, the incoming President of the UN General Assembly said at the opening of its 63rd session.

Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, a former foreign minister of Nicaragua, pledged…

U.S. Senators blame Russia for conflict

The Georgia-South Ossetia conflict has once again come under the spotlight at the U.S. Senate. Although the Senators continue to point the finger at Moscow as an “aggressor” some say Russia and its stance are difficult to ignore.

With no clear…

Moscow: Medvedev talks about Russia’s war with Georgia and US relations

They say, Russia was preparing for war – that’s a lie! The Defence Minister called me at 1 a.m. and said, the Georgians have told the Ossetians that they were starting a war.”… “The concept that the U.S. State Department embraced is pure ideology. We all need to take effort and drive ideology away from foreign policy. The current U.S. administration’s problem is that they have too many sovietologists.” – Medvedev

Ukraine can avoid Georgia’s missteps

As the August drums of war beat in the Caucasus and the western alliance watched haplessly as columns of Russian tanks lumbered into a tiny mountainous country, politicians in Kyiv were busy devising a haphazard response to this act of…

Putin: Common sense prevails at EU summit

The Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, called the EU summit a triumph of common sense. Following the summit concerning the situation in the Caucasus in Brussels, further talks between Russia and the EU are expected to take place next week…

Georgia admits dropping cluster bombs

The Georgian government has admitted dropping cluster bombs in its military offensive to regain control of South Ossetia, reports Human Rights Watch.

The international organisation says it has received an official letter form Georgia’s Defence Ministry that acknowledges the use of…

Georgia crisis defined new Russian policy – Lavrov

Russia`s decision to send troops to Georgia has set a new standard for defending its national interests and the United States must learn to live with it, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday, according to Reuters.

Russia crushed its southern…

OSCE report points finger at Georgia for S. Ossetia crisis

BERLIN, August 30 (RIA Novosti) – The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has accumulated evidence pointing to “numerous wrong decisions” made by Georgian leaders that led to a military crisis with Russia, Der Spiegel said on Saturday.

In a…

U.S. citizen was among Georgian commandos – Russian Military

A U.S. passport was found in a building in South Ossetia occupied by Georgian troops, a Russian military spokesperson revealed on Thursday. After Russian peacekeepers cleared the heavily defended building, a passport belonging to a Texan named Michael Lee White…