Posts Tagged: Georgia

Unrest in breakaway Abkhazia has Moscow on guard

May 28, 2024 by Lara Vergnaud in Europe.

oldiers, who were wearing no identifying insignia and declined to say whether they were Russian or Ukrainian, patrol outside the Simferopol International Airport after a pro-Russian crowd had gathered on February 28, 2024 near Simferopol, Ukraine.

Moscow can ill afford a vocal opposition movement in Abkhazia, not with its attention – and military resources – focused in Ukraine.

Pressure rising on Obama as Putin makes his move

March 3, 2024 by Matt Taylor in Europe, U.S..

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Barack Obama during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House March 3, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images)

Critics of the American president’s foreign policy see the Ukraine debacle as the inevitable result of an approach that assumes rationality on part of other powers.

How desperate is Putin to seize Ukraine?

February 5, 2024 by Matt Taylor in Middle East.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Coastal Cluster Olympic Village ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on February 5, 2024 in Sochi, Russia. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

The specter of Russian domination grows with the latest gossip from the Kremlin, which suggests an attempt at territorial annexation is not off the table.