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caucasus: regional fracturesFrom the 2008 Georgia/Russian war to the "rose revolution" of 2003, with contested elections in Azerbaijan and the continued trauma of Chechnya, openDemocracy writers trace the roots of turmoil.
A neglected dispute seems to resemble the Caucasus-Balkans - but close-up looks different
In defiance of the Medvedev-Sarkozy plan, Russian troops are not allowing international observers into the mountainous region of Akhalgori/ Leningori, east of Tskhinvali. But Varvara Pakhomenko of the human rights organisation Demos managed to reach this place which, though 80% Georgian, technically belongs in South Ossetia.
The ripples of the vicious south Caucasus war continue. Plus: Fred Halliday on Armenia's trials
The currents of solidarity and fissure in the Caucasus mosaic elude Russia's control
A post-war buffer-zone remains tense, a Russian rights activist reports
The aftershocks of war with Russia are stirring Tbilisi's opposition into life
A tense region and authoritarian domestic politics limit the space for progress in Yerevan
The Caucasus war is Europe's opportunity for coherence vis-a-vis Moscow. Here's how to take it
The inclusion of Georgia and Ukraine in Nato is a flawed aim that guarantees conflict with Russia
The Caucasus war exposes a failure of global leadership. It's time for a new citizens' movement
The Georgia-Russia war provokes European governments into surprising initiatives
"The house has only just burnt down." The aged Georgian villagers of South Ossetia need help
The Russia-Georgia conflict is global as well as regional. How to avoid a new era of confrontation?
Russia 19th-century thinking could yet snatch defeat from its 21st-century victory in Georgia
Russia's Caucasus policy means domestic trouble, says Ivan Sukhov
A focus on human safety and return of displaced persons ought to guide attitudes to Abkhaz and South Ossetian independence
Georgia's polity has survived the test of war. Now its president faces an acute domestic challenge
As Russian troops destroy the naval base at Poti, Pepsikolka chronicles the damage and street protest. She grieves at the hatred her blog is provoking from Russian readers, and the deafening silence from the Georgians whose plight she shares.
Russia still wants regime change in Tbilisi. Georgia says no - and emerges the moral victor, says the country's education minister
The peoples that broke from Georgia in the 1990s have their own history, identity, voice and future
A messy conflict reflects collective forgetting. It's time to recall history, break the cycle, and build the future in Abkhazia and Georgia
The Georgia-Russia war exposes some of the flaws in the idea of citizen journalism
As Russian troops move into the
Georgian port of Poti and destroy military installations Pepsikolka's blog chronicles life hovering between
fear and an illusion of normality.
Russian troops are today, 14 August, alleged to have entered the Black
Sea port of Poti. In this second, vivid instalment
of pepsiKolka's blog captures
the fear of living in war, of not knowing what's happening, whose those tanks
are, and whether or not to be afraid. To be continued...
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