By Onnik Krikorian
With the massive deployment of Russian forces in Georgia, the small South Caucasus country’s conflict with Moscow over the breakaway region of South Ossetia has obvious political ramifications thousands of miles away in the United States where presidential elections will be held on 4 November. With some alleging that the crisis refelcts a struggle between the West and Russia, where the U.S. Presidential candidates stand on the matter is fast becoming a significant campaign issue.
While Republican candidate John McCain takes a firm anti-Russian stand, the Democratic Party’s Barack Obama is more neutral on the matter and calls for restraint from both Georgia and Russia. At the heart of the matter is the perpetual debate over foreign policy and Western energy interests in the region as well as U.S. military support for Georgia.
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South Ossetia: Russophone Blog Roundup
By Veronica Khokhlova
Blogging from Poti, a Georgian port city whose “oil terminal, port facilities and a nearby railroad junction” were attacked by Russian fighter jets shortly after midnight Saturday, 27-year-old LJ user pepsikolka, an ethnic Russian citizen of Georgia, posted these hurried reports (RUS) on Aug. 8 and 9:
Aug. 8, 2008 - 1:23 PM
My colleagues have been drafted, some of them early in the morning, I’m shocked, can’t understand what’s going on and where to look for the truth - Georgian channels say one thing, Russian say something else, what’s going to happen???
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Aug. 9, 2008 - 12:50 AM:
The port has been bombed, we’re sitting in the street, scared, they say some people have been wounded. Pray for us.
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alchutoff:
[…] That’s ours [Russians] who are bombing you, right?
pepsikolka:
Oh God. I don’t know, but that’s what they are saying.
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South Ossetia: Olympic Truce
By Onnik Krikorian
Often overshadowing the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in the international media, the conflict between Georgia and Russia over South Ossetia has started to raise questions about what the international sporting event is meant to represent. With military action coinciding with the opening of the games, some bloggers are reminding readers of the Olympic Truce. AllEver explains more.
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Géorgie: Des nouvelles d’Ossétie du Sud
By Onnik Krikorian
Alors que les médias locaux et internationaux annoncent que la zone de combat s’est étendue jusqu’en Géorgie, la récente confrontation militaire avec la Russie [en français] à propos d’une région séparatiste, l’Ossétie du Sud, ressemble de plus en plus à une guerre. Wu Wei fait savoir depuis Tbilisi [en anglais] que la base militaire de Vaziani en bordure de la capitale géorgienne a été bombardée. Tout ceci est de très mauvais augure [en anglais].
The full post is available at:
http://fr.globalvoicesonline.
Georgia: South Ossetia Special Coverage
Global Voices Online has now set up a special coverage page for the crisis in South Ossetia. Along with The Caucasian Knot, the coverage is also being linked to from the New York Times South Ossetia page, and posts are also included on The New York Times blog.
http://globalvoicesonline.org/
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.
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1 comment:
That Russian government makes in another's Georgian territory, this is annexation!
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Mikho Mosulishvili,
Tbilisi
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