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georgiandaily.com     Jul 25, 2008            

Alexandros Petersen*, International Herald Tribune Russia's Resurgence The United States and Russia can't see eye to eye on anything these days. However, they may soon be staring eyeball to eyeball again, as reports surfaced this week that Russian bombers could be deployed to Cuba if the United States goes ahead with plans to install missile defense interceptors in Eastern Europe. Commentators have been using the term for months now, but are we really heading for a new Cold War? U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice traveled in mid-July to the former Soviet republic of Georgia to bolster the country's enthusiastically Western-leaning government, which finds itself bombarded by Russian threats over its ambitions to join NATO and rein in Moscow-sponsored separatists on its territory. Despite hopes for a new beginning,... [read full story]                    


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