This was in today's Eurasia Daily Monitor:
Russia Preparing to Buy Allies Through Anti-Crisis Assistance
"Moscow's anti-crisis subsidies are targeted selectively and geared for sphere-of-influence building. Russia is rewarding allied Armenia; it has precipitated Kyrgyzstan's threat to remove the U.S.-led military presence from that country; and it induced a reluctant Belarus to accept Russia's demand to turn the joint air defense system into a unified system."
The author of the article also questions whether Russia will be able to actually disburse these funds...
US/European Donors pledges billions for Georgia...and Russia responds. Do any of the players actually have the cards or are they bluffing? My answer is high-stakes bluffing.
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