BLOG: What’s Behind the War in Georgia

DEATH LIES WHERE GAS AND BLACK GOLD RUN: WAR BETWEEN GEORGIA AND RUSSIA ON THE 21ST-CENTURY SILK ROAD Mikhail Saakashvili and his dextrous National Movement were brought to power in Georgia on the wave of a “pink revolution” in 2004. In these last four years, Georgia has strengthened its links with NATO and the EU, but has had to put up with a tough embargo on its goods from Russia, which props up the two secessionist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, both effectively out of Georgian control.

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