Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLIX

No 5

30-January-2006

CASPIAN

Sabotage Disrupts Russian Gas And Electricity Supplies To GeorgiaExplosions in North Ossetia on 22 January on the Mozdok-Tbilisi pipeline that carries Russian gas and on a main electricity cable, left most of Georgia without energy supplies amid freezing temperatures. Georgia accused Moscow of orchestrating the explosions to assert its power over the country, which since the Rose Revolution in 2003 has attempted to move away from...