Addressing a session of the CIS Parliamentary Assembly in St. Petersburg, Burjanadze accused the grouping of former Soviet republics of failing to respond to the latest crisis in relations between Georgia and Russia.
She said Russian-led CIS peacekeepers have only helped "further freeze" the so-called frozen post-Soviet conflicts.
(civil.ge, Rustavi 2, Interfax)
Moscow And Tbilisi
Russian military hardware being withdrawn from a Russian base in Batumi, Georgia, in August 2005 (TASS)
WHAT COMES NEXT? Although Russia is unlikely to push an aggressive military response to the current tensions with Georgia, it has a number of economic, political, and diplomatic options at its disposal. Already on October 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin summoned his inner circle to weigh Moscow's options... (more)
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MORE: Coverage of the situation in Georgian from RFE/RL's Georgian Service and in Russian from RFE/RL's Russian Service.
