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August 15, 2008
Photograph of protesters outside the Russian Consulate in Manhattan yesterday by Jason DeCrow/AP Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili signed a cease-fire that requires Russian military to withdraw from Georgia. U.S. Secretary Condoleezza Rice, who is in Georgia's capital of Tbilisi, told reporters, "Our most urgent task today is the immediate and orderly withdrawal of Russian armed forces and the return of those forces to Russia." While, per CNN, the "agreement includes a provision for independent......
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