After the Revolution

It seems Vladimir Putin was right. Then again, as illustrated by Russia’s recent presidential election, he’s not averse to stacking the cards to prove his point.
Yesterday the parliament of Abkhazia, one of Georgia’s two breakaway republics, declared its independence to the international community.
The day before, Russia had announced it would lift trade restrictions to the province.
Wouldn’t you know it, […]

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I give Russia a break, and Putin has to go and threaten to aim nuclear missiles at Ukraine.
Ukraine and Russia may have just reached an agreement about Ukraine’s unpaid gas debt, but that doesn’t make Russian President Vladimir Putin any happier about Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko’s desire to join NATO.
Putin told Yushchenko at their recent meeting that if Ukraine allowed NATO […]

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Russia doesn’t usually look too kindly on former Soviet states that elect pro-Western leaders.
But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavro seems to have found a Georgian he can get along with: Ilia II, a 75-year-old man who has been a patriarch in the Georgian Orthodox Church since 1977.
1977 - that’s 14 years before Georgia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
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