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| Russia aims to keep control of Poti |
| 2008-08-24 |
| Thousands of Georgians demanded that Russian troops leave the outskirts of this strategic Black Sea port on Saturday and took to the streets in protest, while a top Russian general said his country's forces would keep patrolling the area. The comments by deputy head of the general staff Col.-Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, reported by Russian news agencies, showed that despite protests from the United States, France and Britain, Russia was confident enough to occupy whatever part of Georgia it deemed necessary. "Russian military: You are not a liberating military, you are an occupying force!" one man shouted at the Poti protest. Banners read "Say No to War" and "Russia go home." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 TOPIX > WATCHING AND WAITING: IRAN VERSUS TURKEY IN THE CAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA. Also from TOPIX > BHUTTO SUCCESSOR ZARDARI: THE TALIBAN AND MILITANTS ARE WINNING. And now you know, Virginia, why RUSSIA HAS ITS PANTIES IN A WAD! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-08-24 23:05 |
| #7 INTERFAX > RUSSIA > "KEEPING FRIENDS CLOSE AND ENEMIES CLOSER". Russ is desiring to hold MILEXS wid other CSTO Member-States [includ Muslim] every TWO YEARS. IMO 'tis more evidence RUSS COVERTLY WANTS THE US-NATO/EU COVERING IT SIX in ASI AGZ RISING NUCLEAR ISLAMISM + CHINA. ION ARMENIAN NEWS NETWORK/TOPIX > ANKARA: TURKEY, RUSSIA TO DISCUSS [Turk-proposed]CAUCASUS BLOC/UNION, + BAKU: IFF THREAT EXTENDS TO NAGORNO-KARABAKH, ARMENIA WILL SIGN ALLIANCE IMMEDIATELY [Armenia plans to surrender and give formal recognition iff NagornKarab decides to secede], + US GLOBAL STRATEGY [anti-Russia]IN GEORGIA. * MIDDLE EAST TIMES > SOMETHING IMPORTANT [+ Global Dangerous] IS STIRRING IN THE DEEP DARK WATERS OF GEOPOLITICS. US-NATO is projecting power and extending into the Caucasus + CENTASIA; THE REAL WORLD: GEORGIA WAR LESSONS FOR THE MIDDLE EAST. The post-Cold war/USSR era's got nuthin' on the Arts of War. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-08-24 22:59 |
| #6 They've got Sochi and Sukhumi. That's enough. |
| Posted by: Spike Uniter 2008-08-24 21:03 |
| #5 Just maybe their rational is "We've lost the port in the Crimea so we'll make one here instead. |
| Posted by: linker 2008-08-24 18:12 |
| #4 The fork of the BTC pipeline terminates at Supsa, not in Poti. Oil is then railroaded to Poti--a major railroad terminal beside beint a port, but can be redirected, for time being, to Batumi. |
| Posted by: Spike Uniter 2008-08-24 13:51 |
| #3 Its the major oil terminal port for Georgia on the Black Sea.. That's why Putin and his mafia thugs want control of it. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-08-24 12:26 |
| #2 Russia, you have to leave Georgia a port. |
| Posted by: newc 2008-08-24 08:25 |
| #1 What rational do our Russian friends offer for controlling the port city a hundred miles (?) fro South Osettia? Or do they bother with an explation? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2008-08-24 08:23 |