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	<title>Rumeli Observer &#187; Georgia</title>
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	<description>I live in Rumeli Hisari. It is from here, the very edge of the European landmass, that I observe the world. Some of these observations I will share on this blog  as a  Open Society Fellow.</description>
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		<title>Coming soon. New ESI Report on Georgia</title>
		<link>http://www.esiweb.org/rumeliobserver/2010/04/06/coming-soon-new-esi-report-on-georgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After two years of research, which took a team of ESI researchers across all of Georgia, from Batumi on the Georgian black sea coast to the wine-growing areas of Eastern Georgia, from Washington DC to Brussels and Moscow, we are now glad to be able to announce the upcoming publication of a brand-new ESI report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New wars? A comparison of the Balkans and the Caucasus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, some people have argued that there is a possibility of a new violent conflict in the Western Balkans. It there anything to this claim, which flies in the face of continued international troop withdrawals from the region?
Let me make the case why these claims are not only implausible but in fact dangerously misleading.
First, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Georgian crisis and EU-Russian relations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In last night&#8217;s BBC World Today programme, the Italian and Polish Foreign Ministers, Franco Frattini and Radek Sikorski, and I were interviewed on the recent crisis in Georgia and how it affects EU-Russian relations and EU foreign policy. You can listen to the full interview here:

Gerald Knaus on the Georgian crisis. © 2008 BBC World [...]]]></description>
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