War Chronicle 2008
EU Foreign Policy Chief, Georgian Foreign Minister Hold Phone Talk
Prosecutor’s Office Freezes Assets of Khazaradze, Japaridze
Ryanair to Launch Georgia Flights in November
CSOs, Public Defender on Staff Changes in Rustavi 2 TV
New Owner Dismisses Rustavi 2 Staff, Others Quit
EU: It is Crucial to Stop “Borderization” in Georgia
Eight Detained Georgians Released from Tskhinvali Custody
CSOs: “Working on Electoral Reform Should Continue”
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Analysis
U.S. Diplomats: Russian Invasion in 2008 Was Not a Surprise
Back in 2008, when Russia started a war against Georgia, President Mikheil Saakashvili asked the West to help and support Georgia. The U.S. sent humanitarian aid to Georgia and the European Union helped to sign Ceasefire Agreement. This year Georgia marks the 11th anniversary since the August War that took the lives of 412 Georgian citizens, 1,747 were injured. In an interview with Voice of…
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Interviews
Ted Jonas: State Must Effectively Investigate and Prosecute Levan Vasadze
Ted Jonas, a Georgian citizen of US descent who has been working in the country for 20-odd years now, practicing law, has filed a complaint to the Prosecutor General’s office, saying Georgia has “unjustifiably failed, or refused, to prosecute Georgian citizen Levan Vasadze for serious…
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Occupied by Jelger Groeneveld
Dividing a country
Over the last five days many commenters and politicians have raised their voices over the 11th commemoration of the 2008 Russian-Georgian war. The statements highlighted a downward spiral from the government side: the war has increasingly become a topic of political blame-game rather than of…
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Op-eds
The Russo-Georgian War of 2008: Setting the Record Straight
For the last 11 years, the Russo-Georgian War of 2008 has been a subject of aggressive information warfare waged by Russia. Along with the military operation by the Russian armed forces and the cyber attacks, Georgia also was heavily hit by Moscow’s diplomatic and propaganda assets. The purpose was to shift blame for the war from Russia – the nation that conducted a military invasion…
