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Putin Is Not Amused By the Coup in Georgia
WALL STREET JOURNAL ^
| December 2, 2003
| GEORGE MELLOAN
Posted on 12/02/2003 6:13:02 AM PST by OESY
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:50:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Emissaries from Washington will arrive in Tbilisi this week to a warm welcome. The U.S. policy of spreading democracy played an important role in toppling Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze 10 days ago. American, IMF and World Bank officials are on their way with aid offers for the new regime. No one is burning American flags.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abishidze; azerbaijan; bush; caucasus; chechnya; democracy; endowment; georgia; imf; ivanov; kazakhstan; oil; putin; saakashvili; shevardnadze; soviet; worldbank; yeltsin
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posted on
12/02/2003 6:13:04 AM PST
by
OESY
To: OESY
For the record, Russia consistently treated Shevardnadze as an enemy, so it's hard to see why Putin would be angry that he was deposed. It's also hard to know what on earth is going on in Georgia, except that it's obviously a strategic piece of real estate, caught between Russia and the Muslims and sitting on the oil route.
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posted on
12/02/2003 6:16:48 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: OESY
Interesting article, but as for the title, I don't think Puktin is amused by anything.
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posted on
12/02/2003 6:25:07 AM PST
by
Hillary's Folly
(At last, a President with brass balls, not blue ones.)
To: OESY
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posted on
12/02/2003 6:38:22 AM PST
by
Spartano
To: OESY
Not to be confused with a coop in Georgia
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posted on
12/02/2003 6:46:03 AM PST
by
Hoboken
(Rock-ribbed for her pleasure)
To: OESY
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posted on
12/02/2003 9:04:48 AM PST
by
Spartano
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