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THE RUSSIAN FRONT

Cross us and we will crush
you, warns
Medvedev

Russian President Medvedev

President Medvedev of Russia yesterday promised a “shattering blow” against any
foreign power that moved against Russian citizens. The threat will compound the fears
of former Soviet states, which are concerned that they could be next after Russia’s at-
tack on Georgia.
“If someone thinks they can kill our citizens, kill soldiers and officers fulfilling the role
of peacekeepers, we will never allow this,” Mr. Medvedev told a group of Second
World War veterans in Kursk. “Anyone who tries to do this will receive a shattering
blow.”
He continued: “Russia has the capabilities - economic, political and military. Nobody
has any illusions left about that. At the start of the war, Mr. Medvedev said it was his
constitutional right to defend the “lives and dignity” of Russian citizens. Georgia’s al-
lies now fear that Russia will begin to throw its weight around in defence of the mil-
lions of ethnic Russians who live outside the motherland.

Left: A Tank destroyed in the fighting
in Georgia

U.S. soldiers training Georgian soldiers
before the invasion

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