If America is an "absolute ideal," as President Saakashvili says, should the Georgian government really be trying to emulate the controlled economy and society of Singapore?
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 05.25.2011
TBILISI, Georgia — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton rebuked Russia on Monday for failing to live up to the cease-fire agreement it...
Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011
The overthrow of Kyrgyzstan's president is not part of a historic revolutionary wave that is going to do away with the old corrupt and authoritarian regime and usher in a new dawn of liberal democracy.
Simon Shuster | Posted 05.25.2011
Russia has cemented its occupation of about a fifth of Georgia's territory since 2008. Obama may have figured there is no point in hiding it anymore: the swap of Georgia for Russia is official White House policy.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
TBILISI, Georgia — Georgians have been panicked by a hoax television news program announcing the Russian army had invaded and killed President M...
Fox News | Posted 05.25.2011
Georgia's pro-Western president said yesterday that Vladimir Putin remained determined to kill him as part of his ambition to restore Russia's former ...
Times Online | Posted 05.25.2011
Georgia's pro-Western President said yesterday that Vladimir Putin remained determined to kill him as part of ambitions to restore Russia's former Sov...
AP | DOUGLAS BIRCH | Posted 05.25.2011
TBILISI, Georgia — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday pledged support for efforts by Ukraine and Georgia to break free of Russia's orbit...
William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011
This is a fight between some neocons who still want to promote Palin and their discredited geopolitical agenda against some Republican would-be modernizers.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
TBILISI, Georgia — Georgian police clashed with opposition activists in the capital Monday, arresting dozens and beating demonstrators, along wi...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011
More than 50,000 Georgian opposition supporters packed the national sports stadium for an antigovernment rally in the capital, Tbilisi, on Tuesday, re...
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
The Georgian police shot three former military commanders suspected of planning a brief mutiny earlier this month, killing one, the authorities announ...
AP | CATRINA STEWART and MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI | Posted 05.25.2011
TBILISI, Georgia — Georgia's opposition vowed Monday to take protests nationwide after refusing a power-sharing offer from the president, who th...
AP | MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI | Posted 05.25.2011
TBILISI, Georgia — Georgia said hundreds of rebellious soldiers surrendered Tuesday after a brief mutiny, but officials backed away from initial...
Huffington Post Contributors | Jirair Ratevosian & Amy Hagopian | Posted 05.25.2011
By Jirair Ratevosian and Amy Hagopian Tbilisi, Georgia -- We arrived in Tbilisi late at night April 21 and encountered a 24-hour occupation outside t...
GlobalPost | David L. Stern | Posted 05.25.2011
TBILISI, Georgia -- For the thousands who have gathered in front of parliament in the center of this Caucasus capital, Mikheil Saakashvili is a lead...
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011
Demonstrators in Georgia called for widespread civil disobedience on Friday after President Mikheil Saakashvili defied mass street protests and reject...
Times Online | Posted 05.25.2011
Tens of thousands of protesters thronged the Georgian capital Tbilisi today for the start of mass demonstrations to oust Mikheil Saskashvili, the coun...
CBC | Posted 05.25.2011
Georgia's entry in the Eurovision song contest, a not-too-sly jab at Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, has been booted out of the competition bec...
David Bromwich | Posted 05.25.2011
Outside of the U.S., the utterances of Bush and McCain on Georgia are greeted with laughter, for they betoken a hypocrisy so ingrained it suggests insanity. The U.S. looks in the mirror and what do we see? Russia.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 05.25.2011
The Bush administration now pretends it can bully the Russians by threatening to kick them out of the G-8 and deny them membership in the WTO. This not only won't work, it is a dangerous delusion.
AP | MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI | Posted 05.25.2011
TBILISI, Georgia — Georgia severed diplomatic ties with Moscow on Friday to protest the presence of Russian troops on its territory. Russia said...
Judah Freed | Posted 05.25.2011
No matter how subtly the conquest happens, Russian control of Georgia would amount to an historic shift in the balance of power -- especially as long as the world economy is fueled by oil.
AP | CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 05.25.2011
GORI, Georgia — Russia's president promised to start withdrawing forces from positions in Georgia on Monday, but suggested they could stay in th...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011
The contrast between McCain's bellicosity and Obama's more measured tones is more significant than their view of the Russia-Georgia war itself.
Timothy Ryan | Posted 07.16.2011