RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – July 28, 2009
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs has apparently played down the suggestion that US Vice President Joe Biden made a U-turn on the reset. Reuters analyzes the change in posture of an arguably more modest Mikheil Saakashvili? South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity has argued that the US, Ukraine and Israel bare grave responsibility for rearming Georgia ‘to the teeth’. The EU has extended a cease fire monitoring mission in Georgia for one more year, but the idea of other countries joining in the mission has not been raised. Kyrgyzstan’s opposition leader Almazbek Atambayev, who garnered just 8% of the vote in last week’s elections, has headed to Moscow to drum up Kremlin support. Russia has not as of yet made a statement on the election, although according to Reuters, President President Kurmanbek Bakiyev is favored by Russia’s leaders.