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Struggling South Ossetians looks to Russia - 17 Dec 08

2008-12-21T20:58:50Z

Four months after the bloody war between Russia and Georgia, people living in the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia are still living in political limbo.

Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri reports from Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital, where residents are looking to Moscow for help.

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Cluster bombs still exploding in Georgia - 3 Dec 08

2008-12-06T14:59:14Z

The war between Russia and Georgia is over, but bombs are still threatening the citizens.

It will take de-mining experts many months to find and destroy unexploded munitions which both armies left behind.

The worst danger for farmers and playing children are cluster bombs, which when exploding are scattered over a vast area, obliterating everything in their path.

Al Jazeera's Matthew Collin reports from a village close to South Ossetia.

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Re: `Saakashvili wanted adulation`

2008-12-14T12:57:36Z

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Re: Medvedev warns against unilateralism

2008-11-28T14:56:45Z

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Inside Story - EU revives Russia talks - Nov 12 - Part 1

2008-11-17T04:55:41Z

The European Union has agreed to resume talks with Russia intended to reach a 'partnership pact' that covers political, economic and trade ties.

Talks were suspended in September, following an outbreak of hostilities between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who also currently holds the EU rotating presidency, negotiated the accord that ended fighting.

Mikhail Saakashvili, the Georgian president, is said to be intending to raise concerns about Russia's non-compliance with commitments to withdraw troops. While it has withdrawn troops from out of the heart of Georgia, Russia still has several thousand massed in South Ossetia, which Moscow has recognised as an independent state.

A summit is scheduled to take place in Nice, France, on Friday, November 14, and Inside Story discusses the impact of the short-lived conflict on Russia's relations with the EU, and also why Russia is important to Europe in the long-term.

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Inside Story - EU revives Russia talks - Nov 12 - Part 2

2008-11-17T04:55:41Z

The European Union has agreed to resume talks with Russia intended to reach a 'partnership pact' that covers political, economic and trade ties.

Talks were suspended in September, following an outbreak of hostilities between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who also currently holds the EU rotating presidency, negotiated the accord that ended fighting.

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Re: Statement by President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev

2008-11-14T18:55:15Z

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Oksana Antonenko: Russian & Western Perceptions of Georgian Conflict

2008-12-16T12:53:43Z

"We are still at the stage where there are diametrically opposed perceptions of what really happened on the side of the Russians and on the side of many Western governments," says Antonenko.
This interview with Carnegie Council Senior Fellow David Speedie took place on October 14, 2008. For complete video, audio, and transcript, go to www.cceia.org

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Oksana Antonenko: South Ossetia's Future

2008-12-16T14:55:27Z

"If we are starting looking ahead," says Antonenko, "I think one task is to set up an independent commission, which should have enough credibility both in Russia and in the West to be able to investigate and to put together a clear fact-finding report on what happened, how this crisis happened. We need almost an hour-by-hour account to be able to provide a commonly agreed discourse on this crisis so we can reconcile these two positions.

This interview with Carnegie Council Senior Fellow David Speedie took place on October 14, 2008. For complete video, audio, and transcript, go to www.cceia.org

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Oksana Antonenko: Russia/Georgia: What Next?

2008-12-17T08:52:45Z

What next? "Of course, it is very difficult now to see how the current new status quo can be changed," says Oksana Antonenko. "I'm afraid, from my point of view, that Georgia has lost both Abkhazia and South Ossetia forever, or at least for the foreseeable future." This is an excerpt from a Carnegie Council talk on October 14, 2008. For the full video, audio, and transcript, go to www.carnegiecouncil.org

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Oksana Antonenko: Russia & Georgia Conflict 1

2008-12-17T08:52:45Z

"I think it is really important to understand that the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict is at the core of the problems which we have seen in August happening in this war," says Oksana Antonenko. "This was a conflict, from my point of view, the escalation of which was absolutely predictable. It was predictable for a number of reasons."
This is an excerpt from a Carnegie Council talk on October 14, 2008. For the full video, audio, and transcript, go to www.carnegiecouncil.org

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Oksana Antonenko: Russia & Georgia Conflict 1

2008-10-31T12:37:31Z

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Oksana Antonenko: Russia and Georgia Conflict 2

2008-11-03T08:29:47Z

Oksana Antonenko discusses three factors that escalated the tensions on the South Ossetian side: Beslan, nationalism, and Kosovo.
This is an excerpt from a Carnegie Council talk on October 14, 2008. For the full video, audio, and transcript, go to www.carnegiecouncil.org

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Oksana Antonenko: Russia and Georgia Conflict 3

2008-11-03T08:29:47Z

What next? "Of course, it is very difficult now to see how the current new status quo can be changed," says Oksana Antonenko. "I'm afraid, from my point of view, that Georgia has lost both Abkhazia and South Ossetia forever, or at least for the foreseeable future."
This is an excerpt from a Carnegie Council talk on October 14, 2008. For the full video, audio, and transcript, go to www.carnegiecouncil.org

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Mosaic News - 10/24/08: World News from the Middle East

2008-12-16T12:52:51Z

Produced for Link TV by Jamal Danjani

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Medvedev Accuses the U.S. Government of "Soviet Paranoia"

2008-12-11T22:24:28Z

Afshin Rattansi in Tehran talks to the deputy head of the Duma Foreign Affairs Committee in Moscow about the waning of U.S. power and Russia's new missiles.

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Using Carrots and Sticks with Russia

2008-10-29T10:53:00Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Former Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig discusses the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008, and how the next U.S. President should approach diplomacy between the two nations.

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This discussion was held during the Democratic National Convention. It features speakers are William J. Perry (the former Secretary of Defense), Richard J. Danzig (former Secretary of the Navy) and journalist Joe Klein - Truman National Security Project

Mr. Danzig was sworn in as the 71st Secretary of the Navy on November 16, 1998. He served as Under Secretary of the Navy between November 1993 and May 1997. In the period between these two jobs, he and his wife lived in Asia and Europe while Mr. Danzig served as a Traveling Fellow of the Center for International Political Economy and as an Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs.

Mr. Danzig was born in New York City in 1944. He received a B.A. degree from Reed College, a J.D. degree from Yale Law School, and Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Upon his graduation from law school, Mr. Danzig served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White.

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In the buffer zone on South Ossetia independence day - 20 Sep 08

2008-10-31T09:30:45Z

As South Ossetia celebrates the day it declared independence following the first war in the early nineties, Georgians are coming to terms with new realities of their lives.

Thousands remain displaced, unable or unwilling to return to their homes as long as Russian forces still patrol a 7km-wide security buffer zone inside their country.

Jonah Hull met some of those living in tented camps in the Georgian town of Gori, and discovered a sense of uncertainty inside the buffer zone.

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Part 3 Special "Ossetian Identity"

2008-10-30T09:30:15Z

A close look at Ossetia, it's history, traditions and culture. Important viewing if you want to try to understand what is happening there.

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Part 2 Special "Ossetian Identity"

2008-10-30T09:30:14Z

A close look at Ossetia, it's history, traditions and culture. Important viewing if you want to try to understand what is happening there.

http://www.russianhour.tv

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Part 1 Special "Ossetian Identity"

2008-10-30T03:32:22Z

A close look at Ossetia, it's history, traditions and culture. Important viewing if you want to try to understand what is happening there.

Much more on our full screen streaming portal: www.russianhour.tv

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Dick Cheney in Georgia - Duma State Deputy on Bombing Iran

2008-11-13T18:47:33Z

Afshin Rattansi talks Sergey Markov, State Duma Deputy in Moscow about Dick Cheney's tour to Georgia and how he wants to bomb Iran and get John McCain elected.

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Georgian and Ossetian neighbours_Sept 2 08

2008-10-30T03:32:11Z

All across the Caucasus, many Georgians and ethnic Ossetians have lived side by side for decades. And as Al Jazeera's correspondent Dan Nolan reports, those ties remain, despite the recent conflict.

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Afshin Rattansi interviews Tony Benn on Obama and Denver

2008-10-15T18:57:53Z

Hours before Obama's keynote address plus live coverage comment on the UN Security Council meeting on Georgia, just after Vladimir Putin says the crisis started because Bush was trying to install McCain as the next President of the United States

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Georgia: The crisis deepens

2008-10-15T18:57:53Z

Afshin Rattansi talks to Matthew Lee, UN Bureau Chief about rising tensions between Moscow and Washington.

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