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...Frankly, I didn't expect Russians to open fire. I thought they clearly saw that this was an official cortege.' Georgian President MIKHEIL SAAKASHVILI, accusing Russian forces near the Georgian border of firing upon his motorcade during a trip with Poland's President...
...There were certainly war crimes committed, certainly not by us.' MIKHEIL SAAKASHVILI, Georgia's President, denying that his armed forces targeted civilians during their August attempt to reclaim the South Ossetia region...
...rivalry between the two has persisted, and the summer's hostilities between Russia and Georgia sharpened the differences between the President and his erstwhile partner over Ukraine's direction. Yushchenko rushed to side with Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili and urged NATO members to expedite Ukraine's NATO membership; Tymoshenko was sharply critical of his response, arguing instead for neutrality and promising voters that she would keep Ukraine out of conflicts between other countries. While committed in principle to NATO membership at some point in the future, she is in no hurry to force the matter or take any steps that...
...Mikheil Saakashvili President of Georgia...
...intervened. And while Russia’s response was disproportionate, one would be hard pressed to argue that Georgia did not know that their actions would provoke a Russian reaction. As James Traub wrote in The New York Times, Georgia’s Columbia-educated, Western-backed president Mikheil Saakashvili “has played a dangerous game of baiting the Russian bear.” It seems that Mr. Saakashvilli not only may have led his now devastated country into an avoidable war, but also sparked a shift in American political discourse on Russia...