1. “The US and the New Europe and Russia”
Russian Political Culture
The 2008 Conflict Between Russia and Georgia

4. Russia

8. Vladimir Putin, b. 1952; formerly of the KGB and Russian Security Forces (FSB)

11. Video Link:
Corruption in Putin’s Russia: “Russia’s Youtube Whistle Blower” (NY Times video, January 2011)

12. Post-Soviet Russia

14. Georgian President (since 2004) Mikhail Saakasvhili (b. 1967)

17. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and US President George W
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and US President George W. Bush in Tbilisi in 2005

18. Georgia’s new oil pipeline, which began operation in 2005, was funded mainly by BP and bypasses Russia’s oil pipeline.

19. FOX News cuts short interview with Georgians