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» “Cold War is long over”

By Minister Sergey Lavrov | Published 10/14/2008 | Business & politics | Unrated

In August of 2008, Georgia’s President Saakashvili chose to achieve his political vision through violence. It has become fashionable to view Russia’s involvement in South Ossetia through the prism of the Cold War, with the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia as the blueprint. But such interpretations are historical folly.