Interview with Andrey Kortunov

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Published 10 September, 2008, 19:48

Despite a more balanced opinion on the situation in the Caucasus being formed, the world's arms trade with Georgia will not stop says Andrey Kortunov, President and a political analyst of the New Eurasia Foundation.

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