Russia recognizes independence of Georgian regions (AP via Yahoo! News)

26 August 2008, 12:33 pm

Russia stunned the West on Tuesday by recognizing the independence claims of two Georgian breakaway regions, and U.S. warships plied the waters off of Georgia in a gambit the Kremlin saw as gunboat diplomacy.... read more

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