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STEPHEN LENDMAN
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In December 2015, President Leonid Tibilov proposed renaming the nation, “emphasizing (it) as part of Russia,” hoping a future referendum would advance the prospect. Throughout the 1990s into early new millennium years, intermittent conflict with Georgia erupted – notably in August 2008 when its troops invaded the breakaway republic, ordered by US installed puppet Mikhail Saakashvili, acting in cahoots with Washington.
Invasion was strategically timed. Then President Dmitry Medvedev was on vacation. Then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was in Beijing during its summer olympic games, the event dominating world news. After 1,700 of its nationals were killed, including 12 of its peacekeepers, Russia intervened responsibly, routing invading Georgian forces in five days. Washington and its Western allies wrongfully accused it of aggression.
“We plan to hold a referendum on supplementing that article with paragraphs stating that the Republic of South Ossetia is entitled to hand part of its powers to the Russian Federation.”
US Installed Ukrainian PM’s Ouster
by Stephen Lendman
US installed putschists running Ukraine govern by mob rule – gangsters guilty of virtually every imaginable high crime. They staged the most brazen European coup d’etat since Mussolini’s 1922 march on Rome – in short order becoming the most reviled Ukrainian regime since Stalinist days and Nazi occupation during WW II.
STEPHEN LENDMAN lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." ( http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html ) Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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