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EU Report: Georgia Started War, Russia Provoked and Overreacted
Oct 1 2009, Marat

As a European Union report into last year’s conflict between Georgia and Russia puts a large part of the blame on Georgia, the BBC’s Tom Esslemont in Tbilisi asks where this leaves the small Caucasian nation.

Even before the EU-sponsored report was...

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