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Campaign Surrogates Take U.S. Campaign to Georgia

abcnews.com     17-Aug-2008   2 related          

ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf reports: It is less than a day since Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ended her quick trip to Georgia, and President Bush has continued his pressure on the Russian government to honor a cease-fire...                    

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Free To Be CBC

torontoist.com     16-Aug-2008          

On Wednesday, Condoleezza Rice gave a press conference about the South Ossetia war, taking the opportunity to gently chastise Russia on behalf of the American government for not ending military operations in the region. The...                    

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Russian Soldiers Caught On Tape Robbing Georgian Bank

gatewaypundit.blogspot.com     16-Aug-2008   5 related          

JUST KEEPING THE PEACE IN GORI...Russian soldiers were caught on tape robbing a bank of money and computer equipment in the central Georgian city of Gori.This won't help out Russia much in their propaganda department:(1 minute...                    

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Michael Walzer - What the Georgia disaster means

jeffweintraub.blogspot.com     16-Aug-2008   1 related          

Some further reflections on the return of the Russian Bear and what that means for the rest of us.In this on-line piece for Dissent, Michael Walzer responds to the Russian invasion of Georgia, correctly pronounces it a...                    

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Max Bergmann: As Things Fall Apart

huffingtonpost.com     15-Aug-2008          

No week has better illustrated the catastrophic failures of the Bush administration's foreign policy then this one. Just look at the front page of the New York Times today. It has two big stories above the fold. The left column...                    

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Cuba Redux

gatesofvienna.blogspot.com     16-Aug-2008   1 related          

I wrote earlier today about the Cuban Missile Crisis as a parallel to recent events in the Caucasus. These news stories concern Russia’s attempt to re-establish a foothold in Cuba.First, there’s an article from last month’s...                    

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Panel Discusses Russian Ceasefire Agreement

realclearpolitics.com     15-Aug-2008          

GEORGE BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Moscow must honor its commitment to withdraw its invading forces from all Georgian territories. The people of Georgia have cast their lot with the free world, and we will...                    

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Missed Connections, UN-Russia Edition

portfolio.com     15-Aug-2008          

Don't feel bad, Carl Icahn. Remember when you couldn't get Steve Ballmer on the blower? Well, it happens to the best of us: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has so far been unable to contact Russian President Dmitry Medvedev...                    

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Who runs Russia?

independent.co.uk     15-Aug-2008   15 related          

By Mary Dejevsky Poor Dmitry Medvedev. He was only inaugurated as Russian President in May, and already he is being touted as a powerless proxy for his predecessor in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin. As, indeed, many forecast he...                    

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Russia’s Conflict Worries Wall Street

nytimes.com     15-Aug-2008   8 related          

When Prime Minister Vladmir V. Putin of Russia wiped $6 billion in shareholder value from a Russian steel company last month with a few choice words, even risk-taking investors in Russia took notice. Some investment banks had...                    

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