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Georgia’s New Threat Assessment Document Identifies Russia as a Main Threat
On September 2, 2010, the Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili, signed Order No.707, which approved the adoption of the Georgia’s Threat Assessment Document for 2010-2013. In accordance with Article 61 of...
Is Part of the Georgian Opposition Financed by Georgian Organized Crime?
On June 22, the German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau published an article by Andreas Förster entitled “Georgian Mafia Planned a Coup,” in which it was stated that part of the Georgian...
JAMESTOWN FOUNDATION BLOG: Georgian MP Identifies Expat Oligarch in Russia as Financier of a Failed Coup
An influential member of the Parliament of Georgia and the chairman of its Committee on Defense and Security, Givi Targamadze made a number of revelatory remarks during the weekly program...
Moscow and Tskhinvali Finally Agree Russian Federal Aid Deal for South Ossetia
It took an eleventh-hour lobbying effort by the separatist leader of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity to avert a serious fiscal crisis in the breakaway republic. On March 26, Kokoity led...
Lezgin Refugees from Dagestan Seek Refuge in Georgia’s Kakheti Region
According to the two reports, which appeared on the website of the Georgian non-governmental organization Human Rights Center (HRIDC) on October 27 and November 4, dozens of ethnic Lezgin refugees...
MOSCOW PROVIDES FEW DETAILS ON SOUTH OSSETIA BOMBING
At 4:45 P.M. on Friday, October 3, a powerful car bomb exploded outside the headquarters of the Russian peacekeeping forces in Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia’s breakaway region of South...
THE CYBER DIMENSION OF RUSSIA’S ATTACK ON GEORGIA
A growing body of evidence suggests that Russia’s disproportionate military assault on Georgia in the aftermath of Tbilisi’s failed bid to retake the breakaway region of South Ossetia was preceded...
RUSSIA RESURRECTS THE LEZGIN ISSUE IN AZERBAIJAN AT MOSCOW CONFERENCE
On May 14 and 15 the Russian Academy of State Service under the President of the Russian Federation hosted the conference “Cultural Heritage, Culture of the Lezgin People: History and...