Who the paramount leader is is a matter of debate. :)
Putin said a lot of ifs, ands, maybes, and if it turns out to be the cases.
--- On Fri, 8/29/08, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] NY Times: Putin Suggests U.S. Provocation in Georgia Clash
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 5:34 PM
> "As Russia struggled to rally international support for
> its military
> action in Georgia, Vladimir V. Putin, the country's
> paramount leader,
> lashed out at the United States on Thursday, contending
> that the White
> House may have orchestrated the conflict to benefit one of
> the
> candidates in the American presidential election."
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/world/europe/29putin.html
>
> --
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal
> þe mare, þe ure
> mægen lytlað."
>
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