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December 2008
- Hey NATO, Lay Off Russia: Qadaffi
  
  Washington Times | Dec 23, 08 4:30 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama would be wise to harken back to the no-meddling Monroe Doctrine and stop the West’s “addiction to interfering in the affairs of other countries,” Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi writes in the Washington Times . He blames NATO expansion to Russia’s border for moving the nuclear power to beef up its arsenal. “Intimidating Russia threatens the world, again, with nuclear war,” he writes. More »
November 2008
- Georgia Prez Charges Russians Fired on Motorcade
  
  Voice of America | Nov 24, 08 4:19 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Shots were fired close to a motorcade ferrying Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili and Polish President Lech Kaczynski to a refugee camp in Georgia near the border with the breakaway region of South Ossetia, officials said. Saakashvili blamed Russian troops at a border checkpoint for the gunfire, reports Voice of America. No one was hurt. Russia denied any involvement. More »
October 2008
- Russia-Georgia Talks Break Down
  
  Reuters | Oct 15, 08 2:49 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Georgia-Russia peace talks broke down today when Russian officials skipped a plenary session, Reuters reports, and the two sides failed even to agree on whether to include officials from South Ossetia and Abkhazia in the closed-door meeting. Each side bitterly blamed the other amid continuing tensions emanating from the five-day war in August. More »
- 7 Russian Soldiers Dead in South Ossetia Blast
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Oct 3, 08 5:46 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A bomb that killed seven Russian soldiers today in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia is threatening the uneasy peace there, the Telegraph reports, though Moscow has thus far remained silent on the matter. The area was the focus of a 5-day war in August, and the rebels controlling it blamed the government of Georgia; officials there denied it, hinting instead at Russian troublemaking. More »
September 2008
- EU Snubs Talks on New Russia Pact
  
  BBC | Sep 2, 08 3:19 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Europe has backed out of talks on a new partnership agreement with Russia in the wake of the invasion of Georgia, the BBC reports. The decision followed an emergency European summit in Brussels. The commission president said Europe could not continue with negotiations "as if nothing had happened." Talks will be suspended until Russia withdraws completely from Georgia, and the EU is prepared to send hundreds of civilians to Georgia to monitor the ceasefire agreement, said an official. More »
August 2008
- Russia Will Absorb South Ossetia 'in Several Years'
  
  Associated Press | Aug 29, 08 10:30 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Russia intends to absorb Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia “in several years” or perhaps sooner, the speaker of the region’s parliament tells AP. In meetings this week in Moscow between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and South Ossetian leader, Eduard Kokoity, the intent was “firmly stated by both leaders,” the speaker added. More »
- Putin: US Sparked Georgia War
  
  CNN | Aug 29, 08 4:26 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Invoking the era of Cold War conspiracies, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the US of sparking conflict in Georgia to give John McCain a campaign boost. “They need a small victorious war,” the told CNN. He insisted the US encouraged Georgia to attack their two breakaway regions earlier this month, forcing Russia to intervene. The White House called the accusations “absurd." More »
- Russia Recognizes Georgia's Breakaway Regions
  
  BBC | Aug 26, 08 7:29 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Thumbing its nose at the West, Russia has officially recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Dmitry Medvedev announced today, following votes in the Russian parliament. The move flies in the face of a plea from President Bush that Russia refrain from doing so, and the US State Department’s warning that it could be “inconsistent with international law.” Earlier today, Russia canceled a visit from NATO’s secretary general. More »
- Russian MPs Back Georgian Separatists
  
  Independent (UK) | Aug 25, 08 6:37 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Russian lawmakers voted unanimously today to recognize the independence of two Georgian breakaway regions, leaving the final decision to President Dmitry Medvedev, the Independent reports. The move threatens to further strain Russian-Western relations as Russian troops remained in Georgia with orders to inspect all shipments arriving at a Black Sea port. More »
- Russia's 'Buffer Zone' Includes Georgia Territory
  
  Wall Street Journal | Aug 20, 08 3:41 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Russia may soon officially recognize the sovereignty of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, lawmakers said today, even as the military moved to establish so-called buffer zones that include Georgian territory, the Wall Street Journal reports. Then-president Vladimir Putin used the move to recognize the secessionist republics to criticize countries which did the same for Kosovo in February, saying Russia wouldn’t “ape” the West. More »
- Shunning Won't Work: Invite Russia to Join NATO
  
  Los Angeles Times | Aug 20, 08 12:53 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The kneejerk impulse to punish Russia for its Georgia incursion by withdrawing NATO civilities is exactly wrong, Andrew Meier writes in the Los Angeles Times. The only way the West can get leverage, given the case of nerves the Russians have over NATO’s expansion into former Soviet states, is to invite them into the club, too. More »
- Russia Blocks UN Effort to End Georgia War
  
  BBC | Aug 20, 08 8:23 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Russia has rejected a draft Security Council resolution seeking to end the violence in Georgia, reports the BBC, by rejecting the UN body's call to return to its pre-conflict positions. Russia, which wants to keep its troops inside South Ossetia, said that the clause contradicts last week's ceasefire. Moscow holds a permanent veto. More »
- US Tells Russia Not to Redraw Borders
  
  Guardian (UK) | Aug 19, 08 4:36 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Russia’s “strategic objective” won’t be met by its invasion of Georgia, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Moscow today during a NATO gathering, the Guardian reports. “This NATO which has come so far in a Europe that is whole, free, and at peace is not going to permit a new line to be drawn in Europe,” said Rice. “There will absolutely be no new line.” More »
- Russia Seizes Georgian Port, Detains Soldiers
  
  Wall Street Journal | Aug 19, 08 9:09 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Russian troops took control of the key Georgian port of Poti for about 4 hours today, just one day after it pledged to withdraw from the country, the Wall Street Journal reports. Some 70 Russian troops entered the Black Sea port this morning and detained 20 Georgian coast guard members before returning to their base in the town of Senaki. The Georgian soldiers were taken away on top of APCs, handcuffed and blindfolded. The port, a keystone of the area’s economy, has been forced to shut down, at least temporarily. More »