Deputy foreign minister discusses Russian, Georgian conflict in US

An increasingly wealthy and confident Russia has been testing the West with its invasion of Georgia and it is likely there will be more such crises in the region, Deputy Foreign Minister Tomáš Pojar has said. On Friday. Mr Pojar met with senior US officials in Washington this week to discuss plans for a US radar base in the Czech Republic. Reuters reported that in an interview with reporters at the United Nations, Mr Pojar outlined that the Czech Republic did not think that the Russian invasion of Georgia was the last crisis that would pit the new bolder Russia against the West. Some analysts have suggested that the Crimea region in southern Ukraine could be used by Russia to destabilize the country. The region hosts Russia's Black Sea fleet in the port of Sevastopol, and the majority of people living there are ethnic Russians.