There, conspicuous in the light of the conflagration, lay the dead body of a woman__he white face turned upward, the hands thrown out and clutched full of grass, the clothing deranged, the long dark hair in tangles and full of clotted blood. The greater part of the forehead was torn away, and from the jagged hole the brain protruded, overflowing the temple, a frothy mass of gray, crowned with clusters of crimson bubbles__he work of a shell.The child moved his little hands, making wild, uncertain gestures. He uttered a series of inarticulate and indescribable cries__omething between the chattering of an ape and the gobbling of a turkey__ startling, soulless, unholy sound, the language of a devil. The child was a deaf mute.Then he stood motionless, with quivering lips, looking down upon the wreck.
On August 7, 2013, on the evening of the fifth anniversary of the war, Georgian President Mikheil Saakasvili, in a prerecorded interview on Georgia__ Rustavi-2 TV, told that he had met Putin in Moscow in February 2008 at an informal summit of the CIS. During the summit he told Putin that he was ready to say no to NATO in exchange for Russian help with the reintegration of the two breakaway territories. Saakashvili claimed __hat __utin did not even think for a minute_ about his proposal. __Putin] smiled and said, __e do not exchange your territories for your geopolitical orientation... And it meant __e will chop off your territories anyway.___aakashvili asked him to talk about the growing tensions along the borders with South Ossetia, saying, __t could not be worse than now._ __hat__ when he [Putin] looked at me and said: __nd here you are very wrong. You will see that very soon it will be much, much, much worse.__ [234]
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On August 7, 2013, on the evening of the fifth anniversary of the war, Georgian President Mikheil Saakasvili, in a prerecorded interview on Georgia__ Rustavi-2 TV, told that he had met Putin in Moscow in February 2008 at an informal summit of the CIS. During the summit he told Putin that he was ready to say no to NATO in exchange for Russian help with the reintegration of the two breakaway territories. Saakashvili claimed __hat __utin did not even think for a minute_ about his proposal. __Putin] smiled and said, __e do not exchange your territories for your geopolitical orientation... And it meant __e will chop off your territories anyway.___aakashvili asked him to talk about the growing tensions along the borders with South Ossetia, saying, __t could not be worse than now._ __hat__ when he [Putin] looked at me and said: __nd here you are very wrong. You will see that very soon it will be much, much, much worse.__ [234]
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