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Registan says that while the military conflict with Russia in Georgia appears to be going Moscow’s way, things are not all as they might first appear. In particular, the blog says, the South Ossetia crisis has exposed the farce that is Russian democracy.
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No the Gvantanamo is democracy, Afganistan is democracy, Irak is democracy,Serbia and Kosovo is democracy how many millions more, should be killed by your falsh USA democratic goverment, before you could stop to even think about democracy on the west. Right now you have more democracy in Russia than in all western world togheter. This mail is even dengerous because of your western democracy, or if they pay few hundreds bucks evrerything is democracy.
No the Guantanamo is democracy, Afghanistan is democracy, Iraq is democracy,Serbia and Kosovo is democracy how many millions more, should be killed by your false USA democratic government, before you could stop to even think about democracy on the west. Right now you have more democracy in Russia than in all western world together. This mail is even dangerous because of your western democracy, or if they pay few hundreds bucks everything is democracy.