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Georgia's polity has survived the test of war. Now its president faces an acute domestic challenge
Russia still wants regime change in Tbilisi. Georgia says no - and emerges the moral victor, says the country's education minister
A messy conflict reflects collective forgetting. It's time to recall history, break the cycle, and build the future in Abkhazia and Georgia
Claire O'Brien joins the OK debate on Labour After Brown by expanding the challenge to David Miliband (initiated here by Sunder Katwala) and his claim to the 'fusion' of social democracy and radical liberalism.
An elite conspiracy charged with destabilising the elected government brings Turkey to a dangerous moment
Writing from Scotland Gerry Hassan widens the OurKingdom debate on
Labour's future sparked by the intervention of the Foreign Secretary.
The Church of England has survived a test. But the arc of history still poses it a larger challenge
Britain's prime minister is in trouble. What next? The Fabian Society's head opens a debate
The French president’s Mediterranean initiative is a perfect example of his image-led leadership
A stark European Union report on Bulgaria is an anti-populist political wager for hard times
A Scottish nationalist by-election victory signals a profound reshaping of British politics
The seizure of a leading war-crimes suspect may help lift the burdens of the past in the region
Radovan Karadzic's detention is a moral lesson in political accountability
A key fugitive from the ex-Yugoslavia wars is held. Who gains?
The search for a political solution to the Cyprus problem is at a delicate stage
The Polish scholar-statesman was an architect of democracy in his country and Europe
A rising generation will take Muslims' post-7/7 intellectual ferment forward, testing institutions
The bombs of 7 July 2005 wounded London. Our first response warned of damage to democracy too (archive)
The formation of a new government offers modest hope of progress in the path to Europe
Britain's demise could be opportunity for, rather than threat to, England, and no barrier to the social citizenship the left seeks
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