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Svante Cornell

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Svante Cornell is research director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road studies programme, a centre affiliated with Johns Hopkins University and the Stockholm-based Institute for security and Development Policy.

October 2009

  • double quotation markA damning verdict on Russia

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    Svante Cornell: The report into the conflict between Russia and Georgia lays more blame at Moscow's door than has been suggested

June 2009

  • double quotation markGeorgia feels Russia's heavy hand

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    Svante Cornell: Obama cannot ignore Russia's belligerence towards Georgia as the last international monitors are pushed out of its conflict zones

August 2008

  • double quotation markThe war that Russia wants

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    Svante Cornell: Moscow's blatant aggression in South Ossetia, aimed at locking Georgia out of Nato, should be resisted by the EU and US