Word: russian
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...just a normal person, although he may be from a different planet," says Russian swimmer Alexander Sukhorukov. "A planet from a different galaxy...
...they still bombing us then?" asked one farmer with a boxer's broken nose, David Beriashvili, 43. There was a spirited discussion about whether the Russian President could be trusted. Most farmers doubted it. But the visitor prevailed. "I saw it on TV," he said...
...couldn't afford that people lose confidence in the banks," says acting Central Bank president David Amaglobeli, 32, an unflappable Oregon State University graduate, whom I meet in the central bank office, a grand old building with high ceilings and frescoes and gilt-edged windows dating from the Russian Empire. Amaglobeli's family became refugees during the Abkhazia conflict in 1992. He says the current crisis is stirring bad memories. "I remember the smell of gunfire, the smell of war in the air. It was very painful to see the loss of territory, people falling into poverty." A teenager...
...been the worst. Late Tuesday morning, four attack helicopters swept in over the brow of the hill and fired incendiary bombs into the wheat field. Villagers ran for cover. It was the second attack in less than 12 hours. In the early hours of this morning, a group of Russian jets bombed a cement factory and railway line in a neighboring village. In nearby Gori, the hospital was attacked; a Dutch journalist was killed...
...talk, another open truck piled high with the belongings of refugees, carpets, clothes and a TV trundled by on the road to Tbilisi. Even if the war is over for others, these refugees' struggle may only be beginning. They won't be returning to territory now controlled by Russian troops...