news.bbc.co.uk - 8/26/2008
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Abkhazia residents celebrate Russia's declaration in Sukhumi (26 August 2008)
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Russia Backs Ossetia, Abkhazia Independence
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... Mr Saakashvili described the declaration as “the first attempt in Europe after Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union to… change the borders of Europe by force”.
He then promised Georgians would “continue our struggle to restore peacefully our territorial integrity” and eventually “defeat the evil”.
In the South Ossetia and Abkhazia, however, Moscow’s move was warmly welcomed.
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What's Happening In Georgia
Power Line —
... is in Georgia, and he has filed a long, excellent dispatch from Tbilisi that puts the present conflict into the context of Georgian history going back to the breakup of the Soviet Union, and of the ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus. There is lots of information I haven't seen anywhere else; the bottom line, to oversimplify greatly, is that the Russians started it. Russia, of course, has now recognized the districts of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states, only they aren't independent, they're occupied by Russian troops. This action has been denounced by the West, ...
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Obama says Russia should be isolated —
Reuters: Politics 8/26/2008
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Tuesday Russia should be further isolated because of its decision to recognize two rebel regions of Georgia as independent states.
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