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Abkhazia has already signed an agreement for the new base, according to the region’s leader.

Some Republicans and Democrats think there’s a border-bill-for-Ukraine-funding compromise to be had.

In response to Western sanctions, Georgia has banned the re-export and transit of Western-imported cars to Russia and Belarus, with unclear impact on indirect exports to these countries.

The Lost Hegemon: Whom the Gods Would Destroy Opium Wars, bin Laden, and Mujahideen “When the operation started in 1979, this region grew opium only for regional markets and produced no heroin. Within two years, however, the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands became the world’s top heroin producer. . . . CIA assets again controlled this heroin trade. As the Mujahideen guerrillas seized territory inside Afghanistan, they ordered peasants to plant opium as a revolutionary tax.” —Alfred M...