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...democracy. Their first test will be the selection of a new President, where it is essential that a nonpartisan, mutually acceptable candidate be chosen. Both sides must recognize that building a stable democratic system will better serve their interests in the long run than engaging in a zero-sum conflict that sets the stage for another coup...
...conflict with Georgia is undeniably "having an impact," agrees Robert Amsterdam, a lawyer who represents Russia's most famous economic victim: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who once headed the Yukos oil company. In 2003, Khodorkovsky was hounded out of business and he now languishes in a Siberian jail. "People who were among the most bullish on Russia are now ready to be the most aggressive in demonizing it," says Amsterdam...
...also aware of the fact that history has placed people in very different situations, with long memories of conflict and hatred. And there are bad people in the world. And ultimately, power is decisive in a lot of decisions, not simply whose got the best ideas...
...worried she is going to be burned alive. He says he has heard reports since he left that the whole village was torched. "If they burn the house, she will die inside," says the man, Tamaz Zangaladze, 55, who adds that he saw five friends killed in the conflict...
...made worse by a second wave of violence after the Russian intervention, carried out not by soldiers but by looters, including some local Ossetian militias as well as Chechen and Cossack gangs from Russia. It has laid further waste to the region, say refugees and human rights workers. "This conflict has been a disaster for civilians," Rachel Denber, Europe and Central Asia deputy director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement on Monday. She said there was an urgent need for fact-finding missions to establish the facts of the conflict and to "urge authorities to account...