All Posts Tagged With: "G8"

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Kasparov: The West Fueled Putin’s Sense of Impunity

Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov comments on the war between Russia and Georgia, blaming the West for letting Russia slip into authoritarianism.

Aug 15, 2008 | Continued
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Estonian President on Russia and the G8

In a long interview, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves mentioned Russia’s continued presence in the Group of 8. Ilves: . . . Briefly, democracies don’t go to war with each other. Democracies don’t make warlike threats against each other. Either that truism is false or the notion of a G8 of the industrialized democracies getting […]

Jun 6, 2007 | Continued