Russian Exodus To Georgia Shakes Ex Soviet State Walking A Political Tightrope
Larsi’s border crossing on the Russian border seems premonition from the Georgian side. It consists of a few modern white huts hidden in a gorge at the base of a steep mountain in the Caucasus Mountains. The road past the bends turns left, then snakes north into Russia. For thousands of Russian men, potentially hundreds of thousands, this stark landscape represents freedom – the promise of avoiding possible carnage in Ukraine, where Russian President Vladimir Putin’s army is suffering horrendous casualties....