…aaaaaand they’re returning to the status quo. Leave it to the French to squeeze one out like this, but at least they halted the worst of the killing. But Russia didn’t even get weasel words about the “future status” of Abkhazia or South Ossetia, only guarantees about “security and stability.”
So what’s with all the bi-partisan idiocy still clogging the punditry channels and blogs? Beats the hell out of me. I’ll just say you should pay attention to people’s records, and whether they tend to be more right than wrong on these things.
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Georgia is resigning from the CIS. This is making Kyrgyzstan understandably nervous, since they are currently chair of the CIS… any thoughts?
CNN is reporting that Russian troops were on the Gori-Tblisi road, moving towards Tblisi, at 8:20am. At 8:30am they reported they’d pulled off the road. CNN reporter Matthew Chance is, apparently, travelling with them and giving liveupdates (but not, much to our regret, to a blog
Guardian is reporting that the irregular cossack volunteers and the S. ossetian forces are looting around Gori.