More volatile than Georgia. To begin with, I would ask readers to forgive me for coming up with a few run of the mill thoughts. The dramatic events at the eastern borders of the EU (and beyond) are a typified legacy of the abrupt and somewhat improvised manner in which the former USSR was dissolved. The new Russia is seeking to restore its influence and its presence in this vast region from which it considers it was ousted in an excessive and over brutal manner - showing a brutality that the...