1/2: #RUSSIA: Abkhazia and the Black Sea railroad link to Eurasia. Ekaterina Zolotova, @GPFutures.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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2007 Abkhazia
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| 0:33.8 | This is CBS. I on the world. I'm John Batchel. Abkhazia. Abkhazia is a region that was described to me many years ago during the Georgia crisis of 2008 as a breakaway region of Georgia. |
| 0:49.2 | Abkhazia is a republic. It's on the Black Sea. It is Roman, I learned from my reading. The Romans there |
| 0:58.0 | administered as a province and extracted monies, but a light hand. No heavily investment, |
| 1:07.0 | no major combat units to my reading, Roman Empire, straight up. |
| 1:13.0 | Now, 2,000 years later, it is the center of a controversy in Abkhazia, in Moscow, |
| 1:20.5 | and having to do with the whole of the Eurasian supercontinent, |
| 1:25.1 | the transportation and communication routes that are critical to make |
| 1:30.0 | Central Asia a success in this century. I welcome Eccatarina Zolotava. She is an analyst |
| 1:38.7 | for geopolitical futures, a subscription site I recommend if only for Ekaterina's filing from Moscow. |
| 1:47.3 | I go to the Reuters headline. |
| 1:49.7 | New leader takes over after protests in breakaway Georgian region. |
| 1:54.0 | This is Opcasia and the leaders of the breakaway Georgian region rights Reuters. |
| 2:00.1 | The leader resigned and was replaced |
| 2:02.4 | by his deputy until new elections. |
| 2:05.2 | Days after protesters seized government |
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