Putin Is Not Amused By the Coup in Georgia

WALL STREET JOURNAL ^ | December 2, 2003 | GEORGE MELLOAN

[OESY]

Emissaries from Washington will arrive in Tbilisi this week to a warm welcome. The U.S. policy of spreading democracy played an important role in toppling Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze 10 days ago. American, IMF and World Bank officials are on their way with aid offers for the new regime. No one is burning American flags.

[Cicero]

For the record, Russia consistently treated Shevardnadze as an enemy, so it's hard to see why Putin would be angry that he was deposed. It's also hard to know what on earth is going on in Georgia, except that it's obviously a strategic piece of real estate, caught between Russia and the Muslims and sitting on the oil route.

[Hillary's Folly]

Interesting article, but as for the title, I don't think Puktin is amused by anything.

[Spartano]

Russia foreign policy in the third millenium: http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/rusforeignpolicy.htm

[Hoboken]

Not to be confused with a coop in Georgia

[Spartano]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3256552.stm