bloomberg.com - 11/24/2008
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Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Russia denied its troops fired on a motorcade carrying Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and his Polish counterpart near the breakaway region of South Ossetia. “There was no shooting from our positions or from the position of the South Ossetia troops,” Foreign ...
online.wsj.com - 11/18/2008
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Russia needed only a few days this August
to drive Georgia's army into retreat. In the aftermath,
Europe has held out only a bit longer than Tbilisi's troops. EU leaders on Friday said they were resuming talks with Moscow toward an ...
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Russia Out of Rehab
csmonitor.com - 11/18/2008
reason.com - 11/25/2008
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Wendy Whitaker, 29, has been on Georgia's sex
offender list for more than 12 years. Her crime?
She performed oral sex on a high school classmate just after turning 17. The boy was just shy of his 16th birthday. Both were ...
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Woman May Lose Her Home Because of Decade-Old Blowjob
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I am sitting in for Don Lyons tomorrow morning 6-8AM CT on 1450 KNSI in St. Cloud. I'm thinking of one theme being provocations, like Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called two presidents driving near a border, or when a local newspaper decides people who question residency requirements for voting are just disguised racists.
Shots fired at Polish, Georgian presidents, while Russia claims “provocation”
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Shots fired at Polish, Georgian presidents, while Russia claims “provocation” posted at 7:48 am on November 24, 2008 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly The presidents of both Georgia and Poland heard gunfire as their motorcade approached the disputed province of South Ossetia, nominally Georgian territory. Russia denied firing on the motorcade, but their foreign minister accused Mikhail Saakashvili of a “provocation” by driving close to the border: Russia denied its troops fired on a motorcade carrying Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and his Polish counterpart near the breakaway region ...
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