tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post5853086013237119259..comments2023-10-28T12:01:47.929+00:00Comments on Edward Lucas: Georgia from Economist websiteEdward Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369936559712607693noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-22104218444261237632008-05-09T14:42:00.000+00:002008-05-09T14:42:00.000+00:00Seems like another Georgian drone shot down, that ...Seems like another Georgian drone shot down, that makes it number five in the last two months.Antonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14022964681232503802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-36197553921970042592008-05-07T16:33:00.000+00:002008-05-07T16:33:00.000+00:00This is from the final days of Sokhumi. When the r...This is from the final days of Sokhumi. When the rebels captured surroundings they declared that they would shoot down any aircraft taking off or landing in Sokhumi even if civilian. They shot couple, including one full of Russians some of whom were journalist and one was a WSJ reporter Alexandra Tuttle. Incidents of intentionally downing civilian planes are extremely rare. Needless to say, this happened with a missile system from the Russian base in Gudauta. Russians effectively buried this story throughout the years.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>U.S. Journalist Feared Dead In Battle for a Georgian City (New York Times)<BR/>http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6D9153EF933A0575AC0A965958260<BR/><BR/>Published: September 30, 1993<BR/><BR/>An American journalist who was a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal is presumed to have been killed in the battle between Georgian troops and separatists for control of a regional capital, The Journal said yesterday.<BR/><BR/><BR/>The reporter, Alexandra Tuttle, 34, is thought to have been killed on Sept. 22, when Abkhazian rebels shot down a Tupelov-134 plane flying from Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, to Sukhumi, the capital of the Abkhazia region. The separatists took control of the city Monday night.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Ms. Tuttle, who lived in Paris, was a regular contributor to the Leisure and Arts Page and the Editorial Page of The Wall Street Journal's European and United States editions for the past three years, on subjects ranging from wars to art history. She has also written for Time magazine and The New York Times.<BR/><BR/>(Georgia Diary, Thomas Goltz, p 161)<BR/><BR/>The idea of getting out by air was becoming almost suicidal: Georgian television team approaching Sukhimi in a fishing boat captured YAK-40 getting shot down over the Black Sea, from the sudden plunge from the skies into the water top the assorted bloated corpses, bobbing like buoys in the waves. The next jet to get blasted was a Tupolev154. It has its wheels down, and was maybe even on the ground, when it was hit by a heat-seeking missile and becoming a rolling incinerator for most abroad-including the devil-may-care correspondent from the Wall Street Journal, Alexandra Tuttle and the brother of Alexis Rowell’s translator Nino Ivanishvili. Somebody had also told me that another plane, carrying the entire national basketball team, had crushed beforehand, killing all aboard, although I suspect this was the same aircraft bearing Tuttle.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>lexandra Tuttle, The Wall Street Journal, September 22, 1993, Sukhumi<BR/><BR/>Tuttle, a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, was killed aboard a military aircraft when it was hit by an Abkhazian ground-to-air missile. The plane crashed as the pilot attempted to make an emergency landing in Sukhumi. Tuttle boarded the flight in Tbilisi and was on her way to conduct an interview with Georgian head of state Eduard Shevardnadze.<BR/><BR/>Committee to Protect Journalists: http://www.cpj.org/deadly/1993_list.htmlGrigolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07353742707182976203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-84408726953389767202008-05-06T10:08:00.000+00:002008-05-06T10:08:00.000+00:00"Russia has kept a peacekeeping force in Abkhazia ..."Russia has kept a peacekeeping force in Abkhazia and South Ossetia under an agreement made following the wars of the 1990s, when the regions broke away from Tbilisi and formed links with Moscow. <BR/><BR/>There are around 2,000 Russians posted in Abkhazia, and about 1,000 in South Ossetia. ""<BR/><BR/>From BBC<BR/>- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7375736.stm<BR/><BR/><BR/>Crying, lieing wolf.Antonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14022964681232503802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-26286333561022887882008-05-06T10:06:00.000+00:002008-05-06T10:06:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Antonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14022964681232503802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-2459545243559330442008-05-06T10:04:00.000+00:002008-05-06T10:04:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Antonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14022964681232503802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-23894850071341049182008-05-03T11:10:00.000+00:002008-05-03T11:10:00.000+00:00And that reputation is exactly what Russians culti...And that reputation is exactly what Russians cultivate and so well through their massive spending on PR firms all around. It is extremely tricky to say that particularly now. The number of Russian troops right now is up to 10,000. Plus undercover units from Maikop brigade (after all, nobody knew about the Mig29 in Gudauta whic is supposedely closed). Is that crying wolf???Grigolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07353742707182976203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-65501829633966164382008-05-02T03:40:00.000+00:002008-05-02T03:40:00.000+00:00Georgia has something of a reputation for crying w...<I>Georgia has something of a reputation for crying wolf about Russian intentions</I><BR/><BR/>Well saidColleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12248791977170347491noreply@blogger.com