this post is fantastic http://ww.daimonismo.altervista.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1004&p=84694 seemygf In an extraordinary op-ed to the American people in the New York Times last week, Putin fashioned himself as a defender of sovereign rights and a promoter of international norms. It was an incongruous stance for a leader who crushed a separatist movement in Chechnya and militarily supported another such movement in Abkhazia, at the expense of sovereign Georgia.