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It"s telling how sparse and neutral Western...
or, at best, empty rhetoric in the past. But Saakashvili has been trying to keep up with the times, and so he doesn"t scrimp on PR. Shortly before Imedi"s stunt on the ides of March Georgia hired Podesta Group, yet another American PR company. At the same time it signed a contract for $436,000 with Gephardt Group Government Affairs, a PR company headed by Dick Gephardt, a former Democratic leader in the U.S. House of Representatives. According to Transparency International, in the months after the events of August 2008, Saakashvili spent $1.67 million on his American lobbyists. This does not reflect the full amount, however, as the Georgians agreed in writing to reimburse their American employees for business trips and accommodations on both sides of the Atlantic as well as to cover other "essential" spending.Perhaps it"s inappropriate to count the money in a foreign country"s budget, but when I looked at these figures I could not help recalling the professors who
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