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Georgia: History Repeating?

Saturday, August 9th, 2008 @ 13:10 UTC

by Onnik Krikorian

Countries:: Russia, Georgia, U.S.A., Greece
Topics:: History, War & Conflict, International Relations
Languages:: English

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Writing from Tbilisi, Wu Wei says images of Russian tanks entering the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia bring back memories of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. Meanwhile, although no official evacuation of foreign citizens from Georgia has started, one USAID team is departing, and the blog provides helpful advice for those who might be instructed to leave in the future. The blog also says that Greece so far has no plans to evacuate its citizens.

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