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On September 11, 2008, during a meeting of the Valdai Club with Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Carrère d__ncausse asked Putin if he would respond positively to Kokoity__ demand for integration of South Ossetia into the Russian Federation. She wrote: __ladimir Putin answered with the greatest firmness that such a hypothesis was excluded. He explained that if Russia in this specific case was unable to ignore the will of the Ossetian people to be independent, it was firm regarding the principles of respecting the inviolability of existing frontiers. This principle, according to him, applied without exception to the Russian Federation which could not, therefore, welcome into its midst a nation or territory that so desired.__utin__ double-talk (he is speaking about the __nviolability of existing frontiers_ just after having changed the frontiers of Georgia by brutal force) brings her to the _ naive _ conclusion that __he blunt refusal that was opposed to the Ossetian demand for integration into Russia makes the Russian position clear: the August intervention in Georgia... could lead to a settlement of a conflict between Georgia and its separatist minorities, [but] in no case to a dossier that was of interest to Russia._ [237]
Marcel H. Van Herpen Putin's Wars: The Rise of Russia's New Imperialism
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On September 11, 2008, during a meeting of the Valdai Club with Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Carrère d__ncausse asked Putin if he would respond positively to Kokoity__ demand for integration of South Ossetia into the Russian Federation. She wrote: __ladimir Putin answered with the greatest firmness that such a hypothesis was excluded. He explained that if Russia in this specific case was unable to ignore the will of the Ossetian people to be independent, it was firm regarding the principles of respecting the inviolability of existing frontiers. This principle, according to him, applied without exception to the Russian Federation which could not, therefore, welcome into its midst a nation or territory that so desired.__utin__ double-talk (he is speaking about the __nviolability of existing frontiers_ just after having changed the frontiers of Georgia by brutal force) brings her to the _ naive _ conclusion that __he blunt refusal that was opposed to the Ossetian demand for integration into Russia makes the Russian position clear: the August intervention in Georgia... could lead to a settlement of a conflict between Georgia and its separatist minorities, [but] in no case to a dossier that was of interest to Russia._ [237]
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