The current Georgia government treads more lightly around questions about Russia, showing a possible willingness to reconcile with Moscow, said Nino Zhizhilashvili, the Dean of the Caucasus School of Media in Tbilisi.
The independent Crimean Tatar television station, ATR, shut down on April 1, 2015 amid increased pressure from the local Russian government.
For Ukraine, it's better to have a frozen conflict than to allow rebels into local politics said Oleksandr Sushko, the Research Director of the Institute for Euro—Atlantic Cooperation.
People in eastern Ukraine think fighting will resume soon, though they don't know when, said Tim Judah, correspondent for The Economist and The New York Review of Books.
