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Russia must have a superiority complex. A massive ego, a wounded pride. Look at the way its treating both Georgia and Moldova. georgia arrests then releases a handfull of suspected spies. Russia then goes overboard and deports 136 georgians, then orders every school in the country to "tag' pupils with georgian sounding surnames, in preparation for deporting them.
Then they ban Moldovan wine, thus destroying that countries economy.

Does anyone think they're overreacting just a touch? And would a history of dominating these lesser nations under the USSR umbrella, then losing them, have anything to do with their ridiculous behavior? It all smacks of a Russia desperate to show its still the player. An arrogance, a paranoia.
Do you think Russia will get over the break up of the USSR, or will they do all they can to force it back together?

October 6, 2006
Georgia accuses Russia of "ethnic cleansing"

By Margarita Antidze
TBILISI (Reuters) - Russia on Friday deported a planeload of Georgians it said were in the country illegally but Tbilisi said the Kremlin had now added a soft form of "ethnic cleansing" to its sanctions against its pro-Western neighbour.

Russia has severed all transport and postal links with Georgia, stopped issuing entry visas to Georgians, and raided Georgian-owned businesses in Moscow in a row over Tbilisi's arrest last month of four Russian soldiers on spying charges.

The soldiers were released but their arrest ignited smouldering tensions between the two nations, at odds for years over Georgia's wish to move closer to the West and Tbilisi's hostility to the Russian leadership.

The 136 Georgian deportees, looking exhausted, some with tears in their eyes, walked down a ramp from the back of a huge Ilyushin cargo plane after arrival at Tbilisi airport.

A Reuters reporter saw one woman drop to her knees and kiss the tarmac. Russian officials said they were expelled because they did not have the right documents, but several showed reporters their passports with valid Russian entry visas.

"It is terrible, we feel like Jews during World War Two, not like humans," said a deportee, who gave her name as Irina.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/10/7/worldupdates/2006-10-06T235516Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-271064-3&sec=Worldupdates