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Georgia Calls for Ceasefire, Russia Continues Bombardment, NATO and the EU Mum (UPDATE)

Leave a Comment / Europe, Russia / sfcmac / 10/08/2008

Georgia says it has ordered a ceasefire in South Ossetia and offered to hold peace talks with Moscow. But Russia denied that exchanges of fire had stopped, and continued to bomb targets near Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, including the airport, reports said. Earlier Georgia said its troops had pulled out of the breakaway region and that

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Russian/Georgian Violence Escalates

1 Comment / Russia / sfcmac / 09/08/2008

GORI, Georgia – Russia sent hundreds of tanks and troops into the separatist province of South Ossetia and bombed Georgian towns Saturday in a major escalation of the conflict that has left scores of civilians dead and wounded. Georgia, a staunch U.S. ally, launched a major offensive Friday to retake control of breakaway South Ossetia.

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Russia Invades Georgia

Leave a Comment / Russia / sfcmac / 08/08/2008

Welcome to the new Soviet expansionism: BREAKING NEWS: The European Union says it is working on a cease-fire with Georgia and South Ossetia separatists to end violent conflict. Developing Story, will be updated; read previous story below: Parts of Russia’s 58th Army — including 150 tanks and armored vehicles — reportedly were moving Friday on

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89

2 Comments / Politics, Russia / sfcmac / 04/08/2008

Solzhenitsyn was a tenacious dissident whose writings helped expose and disintegrate the brutality of the Soviet Union. MOSCOW — Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died at age 89, his son said Monday. Stepan Solzhenitsyn told The Associated Press his father died late Sunday

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Kosovo Declares Independence (Update)

Leave a Comment / Eastern Europe, Politics, Russia / sfcmac / 17/02/2008

Didn’t have to wait long for the reactions: BREAKING NEWS: Kosovo — An explosion rocked a U.N. building in northern Kosovo, causing slight damage but no injuries, just hours after ethnic Albanian leaders in Pristina proclaimed Kosovo’s independence. The blast — apparently caused by a hurled hand grenade — damaged a concrete wall of the

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Kosovo Declares Independence

1 Comment / Eastern Europe, Politics, Russia / sfcmac / 17/02/2008

This could get real interesting…. PRISTINA, Serbia — Kosovo declared itself a nation on Sunday, mounting a brash and historic bid to become an “independent and democratic state” backed by the U.S. and key European allies but bitterly contested by Serbia and Russia. “Kosovo is a republic — an independent, democratic and sovereign state,” parliament

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