Stories about Georgia from August, 2007
Georgia: UFO in Abkhazia
At Steady State, rindi is amused about conflicting reports of a mysterious object falling from the sky in the breakaway province of Abkhazia. Was it a Russian or a Georgian airplane? Or a US spy drone? Or even a “cosmic object”?
Serbia: Kosovo and Other “Statelets”
Steady State writes about Kosovo and the “de facto statelets of Abkhazia, Transnistria, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh.”
Central Asia: Amusement parks
You kind of always wanted to visit the ubiquitous amusement parks in Central Asia and the Caucasus, but just never dared to go inside, right? Joshua Kucera takes you on a photo tour.
Russia: Xenophobia and Violence
There are 48 comments so far to a post on xenophobia and violence in Russia, over at Sean's Russia Blog. One commenter writes: “It seems to me that the Kremlin gave a green light to the ‘ultra-nationlist’ tendencies of some ethnic Russians by the way it dealt with Georgia and...
Georgia: Special Economic Zones
Social Science in the Caucasus agrees with a columnist that Georgia does not need Free Economic Zones.
Georgia: Offensive
After the alleged Russian attack on one of its radio stations, Georgia seems determined to move the case up to the UN, reports Joshua Foust at Registan.net.
Georgia: IDPs
Steady State says that in Georgia, Internally Displaced People from the Abkhazia war are now being evicted from their temporary shelters. At the same time, the Caucasian country spends record sums on its military.
Georgia: Winter Olympics repercussions
The Black Sea resort Sochi will be hosting the Winter Olympics in 2014, and the near breakaway Georgian province of Abkhazia can expect huge investments from Russia. Scraps of Moscow is left to believe that this might considerably delay the peacebuilding process.
Georgia: Messages to Abkhazia
Fifteen years after Akhazia broke away from Georgian territory, Georgians wrote messages to the inhabitants of the separatist province on a board in the capital Tblisi. Like Soviet soldiers’ inscriptions on Berlin's Reichstag after WWII, none of the messages contained anything negative: “We are missing you Abkhaz brothers.” Steady State...
Russia/Georgia: Russian attack?
Andy at Siberian Light reports that Georgia claims that attacked its territory from the air, sparking a diplomatic row.
Central Asia: Carrying money
Joshua Kucera describes that with the highest denominations being worth less than a dollar, men have to wear fancy leather purses for carrying their money throughout Central Asia.