Georgia says “very close” to war with Russia

Posted by Matt in May 6th, 2008

Russia’s deployment of extra troops in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia has brought the prospect of war “very close,” a minister of ex-Soviet Georgia said on Tuesday.

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