Say what you want if one side completely backs down by the threat of releasing the documents of their talks that side is probably the one lying. The austrians did not fear to reveal what they talked about - the russians did.
No it doesn't mean that at all, releasing the letters would obviously have been embarrassing to Russia in and of themselves given teh context fo pan Slavism and support for Serbia. Also you seem to to not understand what the documents were, they were a selection documents that had been written over decades in teh context of ongoing negotiations in the context I previously described. Not some smoking gun for Russia suddenly being fine with AH annexation in abstract in 1908.
The release of these letters would have been a bit like the wiki leaks documents, I.e. embarrassing because they showed the kind of moves going on in the background. But not actaully as indicative of policy as some with axes to grind might claim. However where it's different is instead of a independent actor releasing everyone's embarrassing docs it would be once side of the argument releasing specific ones to make them look good (so a bit of a dick move really and had the consequences I described in my last post) .
Of course AH didn't fear the release of the documents they were going to embarrass Russia with, it wouldn't have embarrassed them (because they were only going to release the letter that were embarrassing to Russia)
And about the international community: it was Sebia that mobilized its forces and threatened Austria with war - because they wanted Bosnia themselves.
How does that address teh point about the international community? I mean yes Serbia is part of teh community, but eh international community is considerably more than just them?
That and Izvolsky's miscalculations that he tried to cover up by lying are what mainly caused the crisis.
That makes no sense,. because as you pointed out Russia ended up acquiescing to the annexation, so explain larger communities reaction to it
Also worth to note that the whole talks were proposed by Russia - not Austria.
What are we noting? That Russia looked to deescalate the situation and avoid conflict by looking for international mediation, that's a good thing but you seem to presenting it as a bad thing or proof of their inequity? Even if we accept that Russia suggested that course of action because it figured it would get sympathetic reaction so it wasn't entirely altruistic that still doesn't support your claim