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OSW Commentary | | Wojciech Górecki

Abkhazias creeping incorporation The end of the experiment of a separatist democracy

… In the new situation, finding a resolution to the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict seems to be even less likely … current political model was formed after the Abkhazian-Georgian war (1992–1993) and after Tbilisi’s loss of … Moscow. Russia guaranteed Abkhazia ‘protection’ from Georgia and was their ‘window on the world’ (the …
OSW Commentary | | Krzysztof Strachota

The war of nerves with Iran – consequences for the South Caucasus and Russia

… think tanks have reported that Azerbaijan (or possibly Georgia) would be prepared to make their airfields … worth US$ 1.6 billion, and the fact that Azeri and Georgian security services have foiled attempted … tospeculate about Russia's preparations for a war with Georgia in the event of an Israeli/US intervention in …
OSW Commentary | | Katarzyna Chawryło, Iwona Wiśniewska

Mobilisation in Russia societys reactions and the economic consequences

… do not require Russian nationals to obtain a visa: Georgia, Moldova, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan., Turkey, … in Kazakhstan at that time for various reasons. [6] Georgia is another popular destination (around 100,000 … Russians have arrived there in recent months). The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced an …
OSW Commentary | | Iwona Wiśniewska, Maciej Kalwasiński

Russias weak spot the financial sanctions are working

… and Kazakhstan. In contrast, shipments to Russia from Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan increased during … offices of Turkey, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Georgia, and China. …
OSW Commentary | | Wojciech Górecki

Creeping civil war in the North Caucasus

… Another adversary of the Winter Olympics in Sochi is Georgia. Tbilisi has repeatedly pointed out that Russia … by Russian environmentalists. On 25 November 2010 the Georgian parliament set up a special committee to … is violating the provisions of the Olympic Charter, Georgia's probable intention being to cause a boycott of …
OSW Commentary | | Marek Menkiszak

The Putin doctrine The formation of a conceptual framework for Russian dominance in the post-Soviet area

… Council mandate (Moscow justified its attack on Georgia in August 2008 by claiming it was applying its … territorial integrity of states (its own recognition of Georgia’s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South … explained as an exceptional situation in reaction to ‘Georgian aggression’). Russia had condemned the Western …
OSW Commentary | | Andrzej Wilk

Eyes west A shift in focus in Russias Southern Military District

… engaged. In the two Chechen wars and the strike against Georgia in 2008, it bore the main brunt, and at present … command in Armenia and in the occupied territories in Georgia (within the ‘republics of Abkhazia and South …
OSW Commentary | | Marcin Kaczmarski

Foreign policy at the service of modernisation old wine in a new wineskin

… which was symbolised by and culminated in the Russian-Georgian conflict of 2008. The changes observed in … 2010 (after having been suspended since the Russian-Georgian war). Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the new NATO … international order. The consequences of the war with Georgia in 2008, which was a culmination of the …
OSW Commentary | | Maciej Falkowski

Russias Middle East the escalation of religious conflicts in the Northern Caucasus

… conflicts outside the Caucasus, for example, in Georgia, Syria and Donbass in Ukraine, Kadyrov’s … with the developments in Ukraine, Central Asia and Georgia – fits in with the process which is gradually …
OSW Commentary | | Maria Domańska, Marek Menkiszak, Katarzyna Chawryło

Chronicle of a death foretold Putin gets rid of Navalny

… émigrés: Berlin (Germany), Tbilisi and Batumi (Georgia), Yerevan (Armenia), Tel Aviv (Israel) and …