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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]
Marcel H. Van Herpen Putin's Wars: The Rise of Russia's New Imperialism
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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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