Lithuania has also had tense relations with Russia and has been the most resistant of the three Baltic states to Russian overtures into the region.

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He put in a storming appearance before a parliamentary commission investigating the August war, saying that Mr Saakashvili had planned a military operation against Abkhazia earlier this year and had ignored promising overtures from his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev.

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The global nature of the economic downturn seems to have squashed overtures from Indian, Chinese, and Russian buyers.

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