Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 8:05 | Jonathan Singerton in EA Global, Europe and Russia, UK and Ireland 
Given all the tensions between Russia and Britain, how can there be a thaw in the frozen diplomatic relations?
The answer is simple.
Gas --- and the company BP.
A young man takes on Georgia security forces
Georgian riot police have used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon to disperse several hundred opposition protesters from outside the Parliament building in central Tbilisi.
Several thousand people gathered in the early hours of Thursday to demand the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili, the Georgian president, accusing him of authoritarianism. About 300 remained when police moved in.
Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 20:21 | Scott Lucas in Afghanistan, Europe and Russia, India and Pakistan, Middle East and Iran 
Analysis
Aluf Benn says "The Fiasco Doesn't Embarrass Israel One Bit".
Features and Documents
1. US officials have "No Confidence in Pakistani Leader Zardari, No Alternative to Afghan Leader Karzai".
2. A year before the 2008 Russian-Georgian war, the US Embassy in Tbilisi documents "The Russian Campaign Against Georgia".
3. In 2009, the US Embassy in Rome intervenes in Italian politics: "Pushing Back Against Silvio Berlusconi, 'The Mouthpiece of Vladimir Putin'."
Russia's goal is not Abkhazia or South Ossetia, but all of Georgia. While the Russians typically make some efforts to reduce their fingerprints on actions -- making it hard to say with 100% certainty that they are responsible for many of them -- the cumulative weight of the evidence of the last few years suggests that the Russians are aggressively playing a high-stakes, covert game, and they consider few if any holds barred.
