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Thu 08 Aug 2008Putin suspects US may have provoked Georgia crisis
Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin said today he suspected someone in the United States provoked the conflict in Georgia in an attempt to help a candidate in the US presidential election.
"It is not just that the American side could not restrain the Georgian leadership from this criminal act. The American side in effect armed and trained the Georgian army," Mr Putin said in an interview with CNN, part of which was broadcast on Russian state television.
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