NATO-Russia feud erupts
Aug 20th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: WorldThe Sydney Morning Herald: NATO-Russia relations have plunged to their lowest point in years over the conflict in Georgia and Russia’s failure to withdraw from the former Soviet republic.
In the latest flaring of tension in Georgia, Russian soldiers took about 20 Georgian troops prisoner in the Black Sea port of Poti, blindfolding them and holding them at gunpoint, and commandeered American Humvees awaiting shipment back to the United States.