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Archive Home > 2008 > August > 10 > All-out war nears in the Caucasus, and it was hardly a surprise

All-out war nears in the Caucasus, and it was hardly a surprise

By James Traub / The Bulletin
August 10, 2008

The hostilities between Russia and Georgia that erupted Friday over the breakaway province of South Ossetia look, in retrospect, almost absurdly overdetermined. For years, the Russians have claimed that Georgia’s president, Mikheil Saakashvili, has been preparing to retake the disputed....

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