A Little Piece of Poland, A Little Piece of France...

Will Russia live up to the Georgia ceasefire agreement it signed with France? US Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried thinks maybe not:

“I think the Russians will respect that part of the agreements which requires them to pull their troops out of this so-called ‘security zone’ and out of uncontested Georgia,” Fried said in an interview with AFP.

“What I fear is that they will not respect that part of the ceasefire that requires them to pull all of their combat forces back to their positions of August 7. And this is part of the six-point ceasefire. It’s quite explicit,” he said during a visit to Lithuania, a former Soviet republic which joined the EU in 2004 and is a staunch ally of Georgia.

Rebuilding the old empire one tiny little “breakaway republic” at a time.