post-soviet roundup
Posted by jfb on May 6th, 2009 | 0 comments
Haven’t checked in on Georgia for a while. What a mess.
- Georgia says foils rebellion, accuses Russia
- GEORGIA: TBILISI PROTESTS PRODUCE A MOBILE PARLIAMENT
- Georgian opposition extends protests to Tbilisi City Hall
- Russia Digs In Alongside Breakaway Territories
The European Union has finally decided that it can’t accomplish anything in the Middle East, so maybe it should pay some attention to, y’know, Europe:
“There are new priorities on the agenda which were not so obvious last year, including the need to stabilize these countries, which are moving from one crisis to another,” said Nicu Popescu, a research fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. “The focus is less on structural adjustments or institution-building and more on crisis management.”
And file this one under “what could possibly go wrong?”
