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Posted August 18, 2008
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Tbilisi, Georgia
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Georgia-Russia conflict |
Russia prepared the war in South Ossetia long ago
http://www.rferl.org/content/Did_Russia_Plan_Its_War_In_Georgia__/1191460.html
By Brian Whitmore
Before the guns of August, there were the maneuvers of July.
Less than one month before Russia's armed forces entered Georgia on
August 8, they held massive military training exercises in the North
Caucasus involving 8,000 servicemen and 700 pieces of military
hardware.
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