Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised to respond “calmly, without hysterics” to delivery of the “humanitarian aid” to the Georgian ports by American naval vessels. Putin was especially hurt with the fact that the warships, armed with...

Declaring recognition of independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, President Dmitry Medvedev explained that we are afraid of nothing, including the cold war perspective. In case the European partners calm down, that’s great. And if they...

Intrusion on Georgia, destruction and occupation of her significant part has not overthrown the pro-western regime of Mikhail Saakashvili, as it was counted on by many in Moscow. Our troops control single parts of the territory in...

The situation in trans-Caucasia has simplified politically and in military sense. South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity, who has fled to Java nearer to the Russian border from Tskhinvali, continues telling stories on the phone to...

Ossetians provoked Georgians intentionally, and any response, tough or mild, would have been used anyway as a pretext for attack. Even if Georgians had taken it lying down, then Abkhazians would anyway have started their prepared operation...

Last week the newspaper Izvestia reported that Russia is going to base strategic bombers Tu-160 and Tu-95MS in Cuba, in response to American anti-missile defense in Europe. The newspaper alleged that the sources in the defense ministry had...