Eurasia Press & News
MOSCOW – A year after fighting a war with Georgia, Russia strengthened the combat readiness of its troops in the rebel region of South Ossetia on Tuesday and warned the United States against rearming Georgia. “Provocations from the Georgian side … are not stopping,” Andrei Nesterenko, a Russian Foreign Ministry …
Read More »Russian Appointed Prime Minister for S. Ossetia
Russian businessman Vadim Brovtsev has been appointed as the new prime minister for South Ossetia, caught in the middle of a war between Russia and Georgia a year ago.South Ossetia is one of two regions that broke away from Georgia. Brovtsev heads a construction materials firm in Chelyabinsk, located in …
Read More »Azerbaijan purchased 32 APC-70 from Ukraine
Ukraine sold 34 tanks (33 to Kenya and 1 to Georgia) in 2008, Kyiv said in a report issued for the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms. Georgia purchased 15 infantry fighting vehicles and 25 armored personnel carriers. U.S. bought 1 IFV-3. Azerbaijan bought 32 APC-70. Ukraine made some $800 …
Read More »Georgia Calls On US, EU To Defuse Tensions With Russia
PARIS Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili called on the U.S. and the European Union Tuesday to send a “clear message” to Russia to help prevent a repeat of last year’s war between Moscow and Tbilisi.
Read More »Georgia disproves reports on shelling South Ossetia village
TBILISI The Georgian Interior Ministry on Tuesday denied reports saying that “three mortar shots were made towards the South Ossetian village of Otrevi from the territory of the Georgian village of Plavismani on Monday evening.” An official of the country’s ministry called such reports “disinformation.”
Read More »Georgia fire on S Ossetia remind people of last year war-official
TSKHINVAL Shelling of the South Ossetian village Otrev from the Georgian territory causes concern of the South Ossetian population who “are afraid of the repetition of the August 2008 events,” spokeswoman for the South Ossetian Defence Ministry Galina Guchmazova told the Vesti news television channel in an interview. “Taking into …
Read More »Russia Casts Shadow Over Aspiring Abkhaz State
The four-wheel drive sweeps past the group of Russian tourists climbing to the ruins of the Anakopia fortress overlooking what Abkhazia says was once the capital of its ancient kingdom. Alkhas Argun steps out to inspect his work, restoring the pale stone walls of the fortress, a symbol of the …
Read More »EU warned about Moldovan post-election conflict
A year after the brief war opposing Georgia and Russia, leading experts warned that EU leaders should be prepared to mediate in potential conflict zones ahead of general elections to be held in Moldova tomorrow (29 July). Summer conflicts are not a regular “holiday thing” for Europe but there are …
Read More »Russia Warns U.S. Against Sending Monitors to Georgia
MOSCOW A Russian foreign ministry official said Tuesday that any United States participation in the European Union’s monitoring mission in Georgia would be “extremely harmful,” and increase the likelihood that violence would flare up in the breakaway border regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Read More »Georgia more modest now, a year after war
TBILISI It would be a stretch to say Mikheil Saakashvili has been humbled. But almost a year after Georgia’s war with Russia, the flamboyant president, like his country, cuts a more modest figure. The five-day war dashed the former Soviet republic’s hopes of taking back control of the rebel regions …
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