Little Difference in Obama, McCain Policies

Seeded on Wed Nov 5, 2008 5:37 PM EST (CNBC Top News and Analysis)

..as different as they look, the policies that either will pursue are not all that different. First, the US political parties are not divided down ideological lines.

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"We don't need Nato, we don't need America, we need to be friends with Russia."

Seeded on Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:49 AM EDT (Belfast Telegraph)

There is a corresponding backlash against the Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, for bringing misfortune upon them. "Please tell everyone in Russia, in the world, that we want to be with Russia, we don't want Saakashvili.

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Russia Never Wanted a War

Seeded on Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:11 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Tskhinvali was in smoking ruins and thousands of people were fleeing — before any Russian troops arrived. Yet Russia was already being accused of aggression; news reports were often an embarrassing recitation of the Georgian leader's deceptive statements.

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Georgia and the Push for Cold War

Seeded on Sat Aug 23, 2008 4:40 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

John McCain said it first: "In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations." George W. Bush said it, too: Russia's way is not the "way to conduct foreign policy in the 21st Century".

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Tragedy of South Ossetia

Seeded on Sat Aug 23, 2008 2:28 PM EDT (Nepal News)

.. when influential world leaders were gathered in Beijing for the Olympics, the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, was experiencing annihilation.

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S. Ossetia: 99% back independence

Seeded on Sat Aug 23, 2008 12:01 PM EDT (CNN)

Forgotten news, but important to remember. On November 12, 2006 South Ossetia held an independence referendum. The 99% of South Ossetian voters supported independence and the turnout for the vote was 95%.

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'Sinful Saakashvili' or Hero?

Seeded on Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:52 PM EDT (Newsweek)

Saakashvili's government bears little resemblance to a democracy.

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Russian maestro Gergiev performs in South Ossetia

Seeded on Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:09 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Surrounded by flickering candles and flanked by armored personnel carriers, Russian conductor Valery Gergiev led a requiem concert Thursday for South Ossetia's war dead in the breakaway region's devastated capital.

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