Mikheil Saakashvili

Editorial: EU back to Russian business as usual

The EU heads of government will today resume talks with Russia on a partnership agreement - despite the fact that Russia has no intention of pulling its troops back to the positions they occupied in South Ossetia and Abkhazia...

Russian envoy criticizes NATO refusal to let him address session

BRUSSELS, November 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's envoy to NATO has criticized the alliance for refusing him the right to address the NATO parliamentary session starting on Friday in Spain, while allowing the Georgian leader to...

Estonia

Prosperous but uneasy on Russia’s border“ESTONIANS OUT OF SIBERIA—SOVIETS OUT OF ESTONIA”. Amid the protests against the imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981, that slogan—on a banner carried by two elderly emigres...

Estonia: In the eye of a Baltic storm

Prosperous but uneasy on Russia’s border“ESTONIANS OUT OF SIBERIA—SOVIETS OUT OF ESTONIA”. Amid the protests against the imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981, that slogan—on a banner carried by two elderly emigres...

Thousands rally against Saakashvili in Tbilisi

TBILISI (AFP) - More than 10,000 opponents of President Mikheil Saakashvili rallied in Tbilisi on Friday in the first major show of discontent since Georgia's crushing defeat in an August war with Russia. >>

John Harris: Inside the court of London's golden couple, Elisabeth Murdoch and Matthew Freud

On Saturday August 16 2008, Rupert Murdoch's 184ft-long yacht, the Rosehearty, was moored in the Aegean Sea, where the living was evidently easy. Murdoch, along with a gathering of family, friends and associates, was awaiting...

US Rejects Kremlin's Call to Scrap Missile Shield

Russian plans to station short-range missiles hardly the welcome Obama deserves, says defence minister Antagonism between the Kremlin and the Bush administration over the deployment of missile systems in Europe deepened...

What really happened in South Ossetia?

Tim Whewell's original report from South Ossetia which sparked controversy. Three months after its short but bloody war with Russia, Georgia is facing increasingly difficult questions about its role in the conflict. Russian...

Revisiting Georgia; American diversity; Hate crimes in Russia; A partnership with Iran

Revisiting Georgia John Vinocur ("Obama's task is to tame the world's expectations," Politicus, Nov. 11) asks why the Europeans are talking to the Russians again. Many people in Europe think that Mikheil Saakashvili, the...

Russia and Obama: Untying the Gordian Knot

Nothing much has changed to reduce US-Russian tensions with the election of Obama -- yet, opines Eric Walberg 11 Nov 2008 It is unlikely that Obama will run such a wild, unpremeditated foreign policy as his predecessor. There...