Piece by piece, country by counry, Russia is reclaiming its breakaway regions and turning back into what was known as the USSR.
Dubbed a “Russian victory” by the media, Bidzina Ivanishvili’s election as president of Georgia on Oct. 1 promises to put the former Soviet satellite back into Moscow’s economic and even military orbit.
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Ivanishvili amassed his fortune in Russia in the 1990s during Russia’s flawed privatization effort. He is a personal friend of President Vladimir Putin, who approved Ivanishvili’s plan to sell his vast assets in Russia before he could be eligible to run for the Georgian presidency.
Full article: Putin friend, an anti-U.S. billionaire, is elected president in Georgia (World Tribune)
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