Senior City Hall officials have come under fire for acting like a 'travel agency' by intervening to get Boris Johnson's transport adviser out of Georgia after he ran down a pedestrian... more
They've known each other for years, so why did Nat Rothschild betray the shadow Tory chancellor? At stake for the former playboy turned hedge fund boss is a fistful of mega-deals with the controversial oligarch Oleg Deripaska
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A London hedge fund manager has vowed to use "every penny" of his huge fortune to sue the Georgian government for alleged war crimes over the death of his mother... more
America and Russia were locked in a fresh war of words as it emerged that the Kremlin is plotting to "absorb" breakaway regions in the Caucasus into its territory... more
The US Secretary of State was flying into the Georgian capital as international efforts to end the escalating conflict with Russia were stepped up... more
As Russian forces push further into Georgia, the Kremlin hawks see the invasion as payback time for George Bush and Nato. But a military triumph will leave Moscow the loser in the long run... more
Russia has called a halt to its military offensive in Georgia - but warned that it could resume operations if it encounters any further resistance... more
Georgia's bloody battle with Russia was a tragic blunder by an inexperienced leadership in Tbilisi: but none the less for that, a stark warning to Russia's neighbours and the West... more
A few hours before he died, Badri Patarkatsishvili stood on a pavement in Old Broad Street flanked by Boris Berezovsky, Yuli Dubov and Nikolai Glushkov, men who could fairly be described as the Three Musketeers of Russia's opposition in exile... more
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