msnbc.msn.com - 8/20/2008
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Adrees Latif / Reuters Georgians confront Russian soldiers at a checkpoint on a road near Kaspi on Wednesday.
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Well, Sorta
Right Wing Nation —
... headline: Russian “withdrawal” remains highly nuanced. Not to be picky, but “nuanced” means mealy-mouthed, non-committal, relativist, unprincipled, amoral, unfocused blather, like what academics from humanities departments do instead of communicate. “Obama is a ‘nuanced’ speaker,” is a correct usage. ...
Crisis: Russia digs in within Georgia, threatens response to Poland “beyond diplomacy”
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... both countries’ troops and allied armed groups to move back to their positions before hostilities between the two countries’ troops led to a Russian military incursion early this month into the staunchly pro-U.S. Caucasus Mountain nation. Russian officials insist they may keep troops along the South Ossetian-Georgian border as well as within Georgia proper as part of a peacekeeping mission begun in the 1990s. They’ve already built one checkpoint 30 miles outside Tbilisi, according to the AP , and are working on three more in west-central Georgia. Curiously enough , the sob ...
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Report from Tbilisi
michaeltotten.com 8/20/2008 — (Note: I'm writing a long piece for this Web site called The Truth About Russia in Georgia. I should have it finished by this weekend. In the meantime, here is a short piece I filed for City Journal.)
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U.S. and Poland sign missile shield deal —
Reuters: Politics 8/20/2008
WARSAW (Reuters) - The United States and Poland formally signed a deal on Wednesday to station elements of U.S. missile defense on Polish soil, a move rising Russia-West tensions over Moscow's intervention in Georgia.
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