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1:00 PM, May 27, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERThe other day, on a rainy night in Tbilisi, Georgian opposition leader Nino Burjanadze’s motorcade ran over a cop and sped away:
Read more... A new report from the Center for American Progress sides with the Kremlin over democracy.11:53 AM, Feb 18, 2011 • By JOHN NOONAN"Georgia faces a stark choice between two mutually exclusive futures." That's how the Center for American Progress (CAP) kicked off a 70-plus page report on the divided former Soviet Union.
Read more... 2:04 PM, Dec 3, 2010 • By JOHN NOONANEli Lake reports in today's Washington Times:
Russia waged a covert war against Georgia that included missile attacks, arms shipments to anti-government rebels and car bombings since 2004, a newly disclosed U.S. Embassy cable says.
Read more... Russian intransigence on every front.11:39 AM, Aug 12, 2010 • By MATTHEW CONTINETTIThe Obama administration has bent over backward in its attempt to reset relations with Russia. The result?
Read more... 8:05 AM, Aug 10, 2010 • By MICHAEL WARRENGeorgia Republicans head to the polls today to vote for their party's nominee for the governorship. Former Georgia secretary of state Karen Handel, one of Sarah Palin's "Mama Grizzlies," currently leads her primary opponent, former congressman Nathan Deal, 47 percent to 42 percent, according to Politics Daily.
Read more... Palin boosts candidate in Georgia.5:30 PM, Jul 19, 2010 • By MICHAEL WARREN
Tomorrow's GOP primary in Georgia could produce another victory for Republican kingmaker (or queenmaker) Sarah Palin.
Read more... Palin boosts candidate in Georgia.5:30 PM, Jul 19, 2010 • By MICHAEL WARREN
Tomorrow's GOP primary in Georgia could produce another victory for Republican kingmaker (or queenmaker) Sarah Palin.
Read more... 4:15 PM, Jul 7, 2010 • By JOHN NOONANSecretary of State Hillary Clinton is fresh off a goodwill tour to the Republic of Georgia, part of a larger effort to reassure a nervous eastern Europe that the administration's "reset" policy toward Russia won't come at the expense of Russia's democratic neighbors.
During a July 5 joint press availability with Georgian president Saakashvili in Tbilisi, Secretary Clinton hit all the right notes:
Read more... Hugs for thugs, and a blind eye to allies.1:24 PM, Apr 14, 2010 • By JOHN NOONANAs if President Obama's foreign policy hasn't come under enough fire for its warm embrace of the world's misfits and shabby treatment of allies, Jackson Diehl reports:
Forty-seven world leaders are Barack Obama’s guests in Washington Tuesday at the nuclear security summit. Obama is holding bilateral meetings with just 12 of them. That’s led to some awkward exclusions -- and some unfortunate appearances, as well.
Read more... 8:30 AM, Mar 5, 2010 • By REUBEN F. JOHNSONRussian president Dmitri Medvedev's state visit to France on March 1-3 was built up to be an historic event. It was supposed to be a moment for Nicolas Sarkozy to cement his position as the man who has good relations both with Moscow and Washington. Which, in turn, would position himself in a place to persuade Moscow to agree to tougher sanctions against Iran.
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