Comments on: Frozen Conflicts 3: Welcome to South Ossetia

By: Can’t Anyone Here Play This Game? | afoe | A Fistful of Euros | European Opinion

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:45:07 +0000

[...] in South Ossetia refuse to convert their separatist polity into a “guided democracy.” (Why you should maybe care about South Ossetia.) From Time magazine, The region’s budget comes almost exclusively from Russian aid, which [...]

By: TKA

TKA — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:39:34 +0000

What do you mean “supposedly” descended from the Alans!

What an absurd and idiotic commentary!

By: Lana

Lana — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:36:34 +0000

Great overview! Thank you!

By: georgia formally declares war against russia over ossetia « ex-lion tamer

georgia formally declares war against russia over ossetia « ex-lion tamer — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:32:30 +0000

[...] got me to doug muir’s ‘fistful of euros’ blog, and an equally quick and dirty breakdown on the local politics. it appears that this conflict has its roots in the fall of the wall, another one of those [...]

By: South Ossetia’s kicking off: An overview | Nosemonkey’s EUtopia

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:40:14 +0000

[...] background you could do far worse than Fistful’s handy introduction to South Ossetia from back in March, alongside (as ever) Wikipedia on the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, before noting [...]

By: Davos Newbies » Blog Archive » Telling it straight

Davos Newbies » Blog Archive » Telling it straight — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:39:35 +0000

[...] Muir, at the wonderful A Fistful of Euros, offers a capsule description of the first president of independent Georgia: Gamsakhurdia deserves a post of his own, but the key [...]

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:36:59 +0000

Tolstoy is supposed to have said every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Not exactly “supposed to have said” - this is the very first sentence from his novel Anna Karenina:

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”