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| MEDIA HEADLINES 12/08/08 |
| (2008-08-12) |
| Last updated: 2008-08-13 17:02 EET |
“Back into USSR!” is the headline on the front page of the daily ADEVARUL, which looks at the military conflict in Georgia, the main topic in Romanian newspapers on Tuesday. According to ADEVARUL, the Russian troops’ raids into Georgia resemble the invasions staged by the former Soviet Union. Georgia is “the fourth sovereign state that Russia has ‘broken into’ for the past 40 years, after Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, and Afghanistan in 1979. By attacking Georgia, Russia stakes a firm claim on its area of influence at the Black Sea, in a key region for the hydrocarbon transport. In doing so, Moscow relies on the precedent of the Kosovo independence, supporting the self-government of the break-away Georgian provinces and speaking about the alleged ‘genocide’ committed by Georgian troops in South Ossetia, just as the West had criticised the atrocities of the Milosevic regime in Kosovo.”
The daily ROMANIA LIBERA notes that, “this is the first major military clash since 1989, between a country that revolves around the Euro-Atlantic pole, Georgia, and a Eurasian oil-military hegemony, namely Russia. The Soviet model of the invasion of Budapest in 1956 and of Czechoslovakia is now rehashed by a self-professed capitalist Russia, which dreams of regaining control on the former Soviet republics. The perception of the oligarchs in Moscow is that the geopolitical space of the former Soviet republics is a historic asset of Russia. What has been lost through the collapse of the USSR will be regained, either through economic blackmail or warfare.”
The paper COTIDIANUL notes that, using the Kosovo precedent, Russia has drawn the line on breaches of its hegemony. On the other hand, COTIDIANUL writes, “Saakhashvili has stumbled into the snare laid by the Russians, in that he gave a military response to Ossetia’s defiance, without first securing the support of the West. The most optimistic scenario that Georgia may hope for at present is the one Sarkozy presented to Moscow, namely a return to last week’s state of affairs. In this scenario, Georgia loses South Ossetia and Abhazia in a direct conflict with the Russian army, but it does not have to defend its capital city from the assaults of the military sent by Moscow to oust the democratically elected president or to teach the NATO-longing Georgians a lesson."
Analyzing the impact of the Georgian conflict on Europe, the newspaper ADEVARUL writes in its turn that the clash in South Ossetia is a test for the Western world: “If the West allows Russia to have its say, it will only stand to lose.” The paper also notes that the outcome of the conflict in the Caucasus is now increasingly hard to predict.
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