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After Georgia
Europe stands up to Russia
The European Union has wobbled woefully, yet Russia too will pay dearly for its Georgian adventure

IT IS now close to a month since the reckless Georgian effort to retake breakaway South Ossetia by force sparked off what Russia is now calling its August war. There is no new iron curtain descending across Europe, no ideologically based “new cold war”; but there is a deep, wounding division that stretches far beyond wrecked Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, from Tallinn on the Baltic to Tbilisi and beyond, the violence of the past month, along with Russia’s assertions of its “privileged interests” in its far-flung neighbourhood, has done more damage to relations between Russia and the West than Russia’s leaders think they need to care about and many Europeans care to admit.

That was the background against which Europe’s squabbling leaders met on September 1st. The talk the day before was that it would be impossible for the hawks (such as Britain and the Baltics) to agree on anything with the gas-swilling Russophiles (such as Italy and Germany). A day later they had united enough to condemn Russia’s actions and produce a punishment of sorts: there will be no talks on a new partnership agreement between Russia and the EU until Russian troops leave Georgia proper and resume their positions of August 6th. Yet a smirking Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev do not seem to be quaking in their boots—indeed they think they have triumphed diplomatically as well. ...

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The Economist Magazine, a weekly news and business publication written for top business decision-makers and opinion leaders who need a wide range of information and views on world events. It explores the close ties between domestic and international issues, business, finance, current affairs, science and technology.

According to its contents page, its goal is "to take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress." Subjects covered include international news, economics, politics, business, finance, science and technology and the arts.

The publication is targeted at the high-end "prestige" segment of the market and counts among its audience influential business and government decision-makers.

Although The Economist calls itself a newspaper, it is printed in magazine form on glossy paper, like a newsmagazine.

The Economist belongs to The Economist Group. The publication interests of the group include the CFO brand family as well as European Voice and Roll Call (known as "the Newspaper of Capitol Hill"). Another part of the group is The Economist Intelligence Unit, a research and advisory company providing country, industry and management analysis worldwide. Since 1928, half the shares of The Economist Group have been owned by the Financial Times, a subsidiary of Pearson PLC, and the other half by a group of independent shareholders, including many members of the staff. The editor's independence is guaranteed by the existence of a board of trustees, which formally appoints him and without whose permission he cannot be removed.

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