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February 4, 2012

Will Russia Lose Georgia?

Fyodor Lukyanov, Russia in Global Affairs

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Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili finally got what he couldn’t get for several years: an official visit to the White House. President Obama has avoided his Georgian colleague since he first entered the Oval Office in 2009, making it clear that his administration would not absolve Saakashvili of responsibility for the Russian-Georgian war in August of 2008, although officially the United States has always claimed that Georgia was attacked.

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