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OPB: Russians And Georgians, Once Allies Now Enemies

Listen to the interview on Oregon Public Broadcasting with Jim White, Mercy Corps Vice President of Program Operations.

It's not easy taking the temperature of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Georgia. The two countries have exchanged some prisoners. But today Russian soldiers took about 20 more Georgian troops prisoner at a port on the Black Sea.

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WHITE: It's an area that has huge differences, in ethnicity, and language and even religion. So it's an area that has a potential to always be a turmoil point. In Georgia, in particular, as they were transitioning from a Soviet-style economy to a market-style econ there were a lot of problems. It remains a very poor state outside the main provincial capital and Tblisi itself.

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