Teammate of killed luger doesn't slide

The teammate of the luger killed in Olympic training has withdrawn from the Vancouver Games.

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War frays a patchwork of Georgians, Ossetians

Say hello in Georgian in this Ossetian hamlet these days, and the reply may be a scolding.

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Commander: Georgia to remove all troops in Iraq

Georgia will remove all of its 2,000 soldiers from Iraq to join the fighting in the breakaway province of South Ossetia as soon as transport can be arranged, the commander said Saturday.

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Georgian Leader Looking for NATO Boost

President Mikhail Saakashvili of the Republic of Georgia is looking for a boost to his country's aspirations for NATO membership when he meets with President Bush.

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A Russian activist blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.

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The Pentagon is redirecting its missile defense efforts by winding down multibillion-dollar programs aimed at destroying enemy missiles very soon after they take off. More Articles

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A row erupted between Moscow and the west today after Nato expelled from its Brussels HQ two senior Russian diplomats it accused of spying.

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A Russian anti-submarine destroyer and two logistical warships are entering waters off Cuba in a nonmilitary visit that's the first of its kind since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Russia will halt some strategic weapons programmes if the United States drops plans for a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe, a top Russian general said Friday. More Articles

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The United States has presented Russia new plans for a missile defense system in the hopes of mollifying Moscow's objections to the program and salvaging nuclear control accords between the two nations. More Articles

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The warning by Mr. Lavrov, in an interview with the Polish newspaper Polska, was published just hours before he arrived in Warsaw, his first visit to an European Union member since the war between Russia and Georgia broke out last month...

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Georgian Peace Committee: "The Georgian army—armed and trained by U.S. instructors and using also U.S. armaments—subjected the city of Tskhinvali to a barbaric destruction ... Over 2,000 ... died".

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"Russia has defended plans to keep its forces in the key Georgian port of Poti, saying it does not break terms of a French-brokered ceasefire deal."

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Forgotten news, but important to remember. On November 12, 2006 South Ossetia held an independence referendum. The 99% of South Ossetian voters supported independence and the turnout for the vote was 95%.

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BBC: barely a building in the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali escaped unscathed from the fighting that began last week with the Georgian military invasion of the breakaway South Ossetia province.

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Israel-approved weapons sales; Israeli Shin Bet secret service trained Georgians; Israeli military trainers for Georgians; former Israeli police, military, industry role; Georgian Defence Minister an Israeli ...

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Russia's actual physical invasion of Georgia has garnered much of the headline space devoted to the two countries, but the conflict is playing out online as well.

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The Accidental Russophile exams an old Soviet police memo drawing of ethnic stereotypes of the old Soviet Union. People illustrated include a typical Russia, Ukrainian, Tatar, Jew, Gypsy, Latvian, etc.

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RUSSIAN police have ordered Moscow schools to provide them with lists of pupils with Georgian surnames as a purge against the citizens of its southern neighbour gathers pace.

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