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“August war: It didn’t matter what the reporter said”

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Published 09 August, 2009, 22:17

It was counterintuitive for the world media to say that it was Georgia who fired the first shots. Fred Weir, a journalist from the Christian Science Monitor presents an international assessment of last August's events.

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