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Were recent events in Georgia a one-off or the start of something more permanent in Russia's "near abroad"? We hear distant echoes of Herr Hitler, his quest for Lebensraum and a Greater Germany, using allegations about the treatment of ethnic Germans in neighbouring states as a pretext for action for their "protection" followed by rapid annexation. And history buffs will recall the troubles caused to the British Empire in that part of the world by a rampant Russia.
The U K Defence Forum has previously published a series of papers about the Kremlin's southern flank which bear a revisit (at www.ukdf.org.uk)
RS 26 The Stans: The Great Game updated
RS 26A Uzbekistan
RS 26B Kazakhstan: A political overview (large oil producer, 26% ethnic Russian population)
RS 26C Turkmenistan: A political overview
RS 26D Tajikistan: A political overview
RS 26E Kyrgyzstan: A political overview (US has airbases used in support of operations in Afghanistan here)
RS 28A Georgia: a country update (preceeds recent events but an interesting reflection on how we got here)
RS 28B The Transcaucus - Armenia and Azerbaijan: An update (separatist pressure in Nagorno-Karabakh)
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