RUSSIA IS SPOILING FOR ANOTHER FIGHT

摘要

All Summer, kremlin officials hinted that hostilities between Russia and Georgia could riseto a boil again. Now it looks as if Moscow has decided to turn up the heat. Last week a Russian patrol boat carrying rockets docked in a port along the coast of Abkhazia, one of Georgia's Russian-backed breakaway republics. Moscow has promised nine more ships to follow. They will confront a small fleet of U.S.-supplied Georgian gunboats, which until now have effectively blockaded Abkhazia, seizing ships-including a Turkish tanker-attempting to supply the rebel government.