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Foreign Policy In Focus | Russia and Georgia: All About Oil

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In commenting on the war in the Caucasus, most American analysts have tended to see it as a throwback to the past: as a continuation of a centuries-old blood feud between Russians and Georgians, or, at best, as part of the unfinished business of the Cold War. Many have spoken of Russia s desire to erase the national humiliation it experienced with the collapse of the Soviet Union 16 ...