Georgia and Beyond: Russia's Response to Separatism and Ethnic Conflict
Last year openDemocracy Russia editor Zygmunt Dzieciolowski travelled in Georgia and Abkhazia.
I'm not sure I can recommend the Abkhazian house wine that gets served in the bars and restaurants of Sukhumi.
In August 2008 Zygmunt Dzieciolowski was in Georgia. He interviewed Mikheil Saakashvili, as it happens just twenty hours before the war with Russia broke out.
Brutal wars in Chechnya and now trouble in places such as Ossetia and Ingushetia have shown the world that ethnic conflict and Islamic separatism are seen as serious threats to Russia, even as it t
As the recent war between Russia and Georgia shows, the aftershocks of the collapse of the Soviet Union are still being felt today.
Jason Maloney and Kira Kay's reporting from the Georgia/Russia conflict aired on HDNet World Report at 9 p.m.
Thomas Goltz, special to the Pulitzer Center
Well, it seems to be over, surprise, surprise, unless it turns into WW III, which I hope it does not.
They've been dreaming about independence for years. In 1999 Abkhazia's citizens voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence in a national referendum.
They've dreamed about it for years. In 1999, in a national referendum, Abkhazia's citizens voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence.
Zygmunt Dzieciolowski has been contributing to Russian radio stations on the Georgian conflict and its consequences. Videographer Jason Maloney, who is on the ground with Dzieciolowski, says that “...
Russian troops and tanks may have at least partially completed their pull-out from territory seized during its August 8 blitz of this tiny post-Soviet country, but that should be little reason to c
Special correspondent Kira Kay reports on the political tensions within Georgia's breakaway province Abkhazia.
Excerpt translated by Elena Kristalinski
World Report is inside Georgia before and during the Russian onslaught, with exclusive access inside disputed territories.
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Thomas Goltz, special to the Pulitzer Center
Freelance video journalist Jason Maloney, who was filming in Georgia for the Pulitzer Center at the time of the fighting, describes the tensions that preceded the clashes and the impacts on the reg
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Jason Maloney is a co-founder, producer, videographer and editor with the Bureau for International Reporting (BIR) – a non-profit organization dedicated to producing and providing vital...
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Zygmunt is a Polish born journalist, writer and documentary film director.
For the last twenty years his main interests have been Russia and other post soviet republics. He took up journalism in...
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Kira Kay is Executive Director of the Bureau for International Reporting (BIR) – a non-profit organization dedicated to producing and providing vital international television news programming to an...