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15:45 - 76 Airborne Brigade of the Russian Army arrives in the conflict region - Russian military officials.

15:20 GMT - Prime Minister Putin arrives in Russia's republic of North Ossetia to discuss aid for the refugees arriving from South Ossetia.

14:19 GMT - Russia's Interfax news agency quotes locals in Georgia claiming convoys of `NATO military vehicles' are travelling to South Ossetia.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Aug 9th, 2008 at 12:24:12 PM EST
I hope not.

Possibly vehicles sold/donated by NATO member countries to the Georgian military, but the only NATO military in the region is the US base and pray god they're not stupid enough to get involved.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Aug 9th, 2008 at 12:44:00 PM EST
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Indeed. That would be very bad.

Have we been blindsided? Now that Iran seems to be off the menu, have teh crazxies decided to attack Russia?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sat Aug 9th, 2008 at 01:26:24 PM EST
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If they can only wait until I'm hiking in the Alps to start the missile lobbing...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sat Aug 9th, 2008 at 01:30:39 PM EST
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Should be a fine view from there.

Who still thinks this won't affect oil prices?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sat Aug 9th, 2008 at 01:38:17 PM EST
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Well, I'm getting there by nuclear powered TGV...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sat Aug 9th, 2008 at 01:49:00 PM EST
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