Maybe. There has been a lot less news over CNN and other internet sources regarding what's going on in Georgia. Russia still hasn't pulled back though.
Still in clear violation of their original ceasefire agreement signed last week (one that called for both sides to pull their troops back "immediately"), Russian President Dmitry Medvedev still hasn't ordered their army to pull out of Georgia. Or he has but he's scheduled it for Monday (we're ahead of their time by several hours). That means they'll only today start to pull out. Moscow has said nothing of when they will complete their withdrawal operation. We'll see later if they actually keep their word this time.
But terrorists have cut a major railway line from Tbilisi to the port of Poti, and Georgia thinks Russia is behind it. Russia denies it. I'm not going to say Russia did it until we get real evidence, but when you think of it objectively, who else would do it? D:
In other related news, former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev said that "there is no doubt" that Georgia started the conflict by attacking South Ossetia's "sleeping people" with "sophisticated weapons". I'll just relay this information because it seems important, but since I wasn't there to confirm I'll reserve my opinions on this one.
Lots of other stuff happened over the last few days too (that I didn't get to blog about). The U.S. has opened up missile defense sites in Poland, something that Russia "strongly opposes". Now I'm not trying to read too deep into this, but why would they oppose something like that unless they were planning to launch missile-based attacks against the West? D:
But it's rather good that the world is starting to shift away from the Georgia Conflict and now we're getting more focus on the Beijing Olympics. But we mustn't let this fully out of our sights right now. I still feel like there's something big that might happen from there soon.
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