Savage Putin teaching Bush a bloody lesson

There's an uncanny symmetry in the history of Russia's treatment of Georgia and Britain's treatment of Ireland over the centuries.
Georgians have their own language, even their own alphabet, their own distinctive Orthodox Christian church symbolised by their own style of crucifix, St Nino's cross.

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