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Western Neutrality & Russian-Georgian War

Western Neutrality & Russian-Georgian War

By Gevork Gevorkyan on March 16, 2010

Recent conflict in Georgia left much space for evaluation and analysis. These events turned out to be absolutely unexpected for western leaders. Russia’s step – invading into sovereign country, occupying parts of its territory and declaring there independence was something that western leaders thought could have happened in 19-20th centuries, but deemed unacceptable for world [...]

Posted in Georgia, Russia | Tagged Europe, Georgia, Russia, War, West | Leave a response

Experts Report Rise of Xenophobic Aspirations in Russia

Experts Report Rise of Xenophobic Aspirations in Russia

By Gevork Gevorkyan on March 16, 2010

“There is a rise in racist aspirations in Russia” states member of European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) Michael Had. ECRI is a commission founded by Council of Europe in 1993 for monitoring racist and xenophobic issues in the member states. Had also stated that the public opinion towards ethnic minorities has significantly worsened [...]

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CyberWar Against Georgia: Russia Attacks

CyberWar Against Georgia: Russia Attacks

By Gevork Gevorkyan on August 14, 2008

Along with declared war that Russia openly conducts against Georgian state Russia also launched full-scale cyberwar that resulted in the hacking of Georgian news sites and web sites of several governmental agencies. Web sites Rustavi2 and Civil.ge (leading news agencies) were down for two days. Although the third large news agency Newsgeorgia.ge was operating during [...]

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