Lira Tskhovrebova is the founder of the Association of South Ossetian Women for Democracy and Human Rights.

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"I DESIRE that the terror of my name should guard our frontiers more potently than chains or fortresses, that my word should be for the natives a law more inevitable than death," wrote Alexei Yermolov, Russia's legendary general who waged total war during his conquest of th …

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WASHINGTON (ChattahBox) - A severe and widespread electronic attack on Defense Department computers that may have originated from Russia, forced senior military leaders to take the exceptional step of briefing President George W. Bush.

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) is calling for immediate steps by Russia to stop South Ossetian militias from attacking ethnic Georgians in the Akhalgori district.

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At a time when its circulation and share price are in freefall, you know that if a New York Times editorial gives even a backhanded criticism of a news story the paper has reported, the story is highly dubious to say the least.

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n a week's time, Nato is going to rebuff Georgia and Ukraine's hopes of joining the alliance. How should its 26 members handle this to avoid giving Russia the appearance of victory?

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia is still failing to meet its ceasefire obligations with Georgia and Washington's European allies must not overlook this and rush to embrace Moscow, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.

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There has been lots of hand wringing about the rise of Russia as a belligerent power. And those fears were stoked after the country's recent invasion of Georgia.

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TBILISI, Georgia: Georgian officials said Russian and separatist forces attacked a Georgian police checkpoint Thursday near the breakaway province of Abkhazia. Abkhaz separatists said they had simply responded to Georgian fire and no Russian troops were involved.

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Robert E. Hunter, who was U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) during the Clinton administration, says he does not expect NATO foreign ministers to enlarge the alliance to include Georgia or Ukraine at the next meeting in December.

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VIENNA (AFP) — Salzburg is ready to host the 2014 winter Olympics should Russian resort Sochi not finish construction in time, Salzburg city governor Gabi Burgstaller claimed on Wednesday.

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Russia needed only a few days this August to drive Georgia's army into retreat. In the aftermath, Europe has held out only a bit longer than Tbilisi's troops.

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The FINANCIAL -- According to Civil Georgia, the Georgian government released a statement late on November 17 in an attempt to counter some of the recent western media reports questioning Tbilisi 's assertions about the war's start in August

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Russia's efforts to control oil and gas supplies to Europe from the Caspian basin and central Asia could advance significantly at the weekend when the Kremlin hosts a summit meeting of the leaders of long-time south Caucasus rivals Azerbaijan and Armenia.

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Russia's parliament announced it would rush through a constitutional amendment that could see Vladimir Putin return to the presidency within weeks. By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow Last Updated: 7:37PM GMT 12 Nov 2008

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Why did Russia really invade Georgia? In late September, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov appeared before the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and offered a rather stunning explanation.

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Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev said he would deploy new missiles in Europe, confronting the U.S. hours after Barack Obama won the American presidential election.

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MOSCOW — President Dmitri Medvedev said Wednesday that Russia will deploy missiles in territory near NATO member Poland in response to U.S. missile defence plans. He did not say whether the short-range Iskander missiles would be fitted with nuclear warheads.

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After Georgia, supposedly, everything was different. Europe had woken up to the reality of the ex-KGB regime in Russia, its repression at home, aggression abroad, and use of divide-and-rule tactics in the European Union and NATO.

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In little more than a week, citizens of the United States will vote to elect the next President. Although many in Europe focus intently on the election's significance for U.S.

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The FINANCIAL -- According to Civil Georgia, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in an interview with the Russian daily Kommersant, published on October 28, that a group of "intellectuals, politicians and lawyers" will make up an international investigative commissi …

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Ethnic cleansing continues in the de-facto border region between Georgia and South Ossetia. Human rights monitors found evidence of the burning of houses, attacks on civilians and forced displacement of the Georgian population as late as Friday 17 October.

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Russian occupants have decided to construct a military base in the village Pichori, Abkhazia.

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The division of Europe into "old" and "new" parallels the blue and red state split of American electoral politics.

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