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“‘Caucasus-2009’ war games – message to Saakashvili, not Obama”

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Published: 01 July, 2009, 19:08

Mikhail Saakashvili with a US soldier during a joint NATO-Georgia military training exercise (AFP Photo / Nina Shlamova)

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“I think that President Medvedev will persuade Barack Obama to change the US’s stance on Georgian affairs and the situation in the Caucasus as a whole,” independent political analyst Vladimir Kozin told RT.

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