My colleague, Charles King, is one of the foremost authorities on the Caucasus in the United States. His take on the conflict appears in tomorrow's Christian Science Monitor:American and European diplomats, who have rushed to the region to try to stop the conflict,...
Early reports suggest that the US UNSC draft resolution condemns the Russians and calls for a return to the status quo prior to the Georgian offensive, a message the US has also publicly delivered...
Dan lamented correctly yesterday morning about the paucity of reliable casualty numbers for the conflict in Georgia. Seems this is still the case, with the Washington Post reporting today that...
Sloph on Ukraine's threat to bar the Black Sea Fleet from returning to Sevastopol.Obviously the dithering is over, Ukraine has told Russia it's not allowed to bring its navy back to Sevastopol so...
The Russians refused Georgia's request for a cease fire. The UN says that the war is escalating and widening to Abkhazia. Interfax reports that "The Russian Foreign Ministry has accused Ukraine of facilitating Georgia's aggression against South Ossetia and ethnic cleansing in the breakaway Georgian province by selling weapons to Tbilisi." I was talking about the conflict today with someone who commented (more or less) "I wonder if the Russians will get some bombing runs off against the BTC pipeline while they have the chance?" The answer seems to be yes [8/10: actually, it looks like the...