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Interesting Quote on Russian Invasion of Georgia

by Chris Borgen

Take a look at this commentary about Russia invading Georgia:

In order to be able to deny the invasion of Russian troops, it was first stated that some villages on the Georgian frontier had revolted, embittered by the tyranny of the, Georgians…. Simultaneously, Abkhazia had risen in the extreme northwest, close to the Russian border.

It is a remarkable fact that the rebellions broke out precisely in those places, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Abkhazia, where large and constantly increasing masses of Russian troops had been quartered since November.

The inhabitants of some Armenian border villages are supposed to have insisted on advancing towards Tiflis (Tbilisi). The Russian Government stated it had endeavored, out of love of peace and benevolence, to help the threatened Georgian regime, and offered its mediation between the Georgians and the Armenians. It could not help it if Georgia contemptuously rejected this mediation.

It was written in 1921.

August 24, 2008 -- Georgia, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia
August 19, 2008 -- SecState Rice Announces New NATO-Georgia Commission and Discusses U.S.-Russia Relations
August 15, 2008 -- Statement from SecState Rice on Georgian Cease-Fire Agreement and Next Steps
August 14, 2008 -- Parsing the Georgian Cease-Fire Agreement
August 13, 2008 -- The Security Council and the Use of Force Post-Georgia War? Michael Glennon and ‘Desuetude’
August 12, 2008 -- South Ossetia and “the Will of the People”
August 12, 2008 -- Georgia Taking Russia to Court? And Vice Versa?
August 11, 2008 -- The Investigative Committee in Russia and Alleged Georgian Crimes?
August 11, 2008 -- Frozen Conflicts Unfreezing
August 9, 2008 -- The War in Georgia: Issues of Escalation and Justification
August 9, 2008 -- International Law, Power Politics, and Russian Intervention in Georgia
August 8, 2008 -- Frozen Conflict Becomes Hot War: Russia Invades Georgia
May 1, 2008 -- Fine Hiking (Never Mind the Troop Movements)
November 16, 2008 -- And, Lest We Forget Moldova…
November 15, 2008 -- The Framing of the Georgian Conflict
October 24, 2008 -- The Provisional Measures Order in Georgia v. Russian Federation: Trying to Navigate Between Scylla and Charybdis
August 14, 2008 -- The Curious Article 27(3) of the UN Charter
August 14, 2008 -- Russia’s Reversal on the ICC?
February 17, 2008 -- Europe’s Newest State (?)
December 9, 2007 --
June 13, 2007 -- Vive la Différence?: The EU, the US, Russia, and Competing Conceptions of International Law
September 17, 2006 -- Secession by Referendum?
August 4, 2006 -- Tricky, Tricky, Transnistria
August 2, 2006 -- Assessing the Legal Issues of the Moldovan Separatist Conflict
July 29, 2006 -- President Bush Notes Transnistrian Conflict
July 27, 2006 -- Lawyers, Guns, and Money: International Law and the Secessionist Conflict in Moldova

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