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Olivia Edwards ** __**Georgia and Russia: Possible Indications of War Preparation:**__  In August 2008, war broke out between Russia and Georgia. Though the two countries had been rattling sabers for years, several key geo-typical and technical indicators convinced STRATFOR that war would indeed break out between Georgia and Russia in the summer of 2008...
 * Mass Movement In Russia And Neighbouring Countries!!!


 * Russian troops have remained inside Georgia's secessionist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia since August 2008. Russia has established facilities and a military presence consisting of roughly 1,000 troops (though the actual numbers are disputed) in each breakaway province. With these troops stationed inside Georgia, within striking distance of the country's major east-west road and rail infrastructure and the capital city, Moscow has established a military reality in Georgia that not even the United States is currently disposed to alter.
 * The Georgians allegedly have planned a civilian march from Tbilisi to the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali, rumored to coincide with the Aug. 8 anniversary of the war. However, it should be mentioned that plans for such a march have been made several times in previous months but failed to materialize. The South Ossetians have said any such march would be seen as an "attempted invasion." The secessionist region has closed its border.

http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20090805_georgia_russia_possible_indications_war_preparations

__**Russia Accused of Unleashing Cyber-Attacks on Estonia:**__ A three-week wave of massive cyber-attacks on the small Baltic country of Estonia, the first known incidence of such an assault on a state, is causing alarm across the western alliance, with Nato urgently examining the offensive and its implications.  While Russia and Estonia are embroiled in their worst dispute since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a row that erupted at the end of last month over the Estonians' removal of the Bronze Soldier Soviet war memorial in central Tallinn, the country has been subjected to a barrage of cyber warfare, disabling the websites of government ministries, political parties, newspapers, banks, and companies...


 * Ethnic Russians staged protests against the removal, during which 1,300 people were arrested, 100 people were injured, and one person was killed.
 * With their reputation for electronic prowess, the Estonians have been quick to marshal their defenses, mainly by closing down the sites under attack to foreign internet addresses, in order to try to keep them accessible to domestic users.
 *  He also accused Poland of holding the EU hostage in its dealings with Russia, and further accused Estonia and other east European countries previously in Russia's orbit of being in thrall to "phantom pains of the past, historic grievances against the Soviet union and the Russian empire of the 19th century."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/may/17/topstories3.russia

__**Poland Between Germany and Russia:**__ The Soviet-Polish War took place in 1920 and lasted for less than six months. This war came about due to the threat that Poland was facing from Russia. They feared that Russia was about to take over some of Poland's territory, "it is in the interest of Poland to root out Russian imperialism and to reduce Russia to her own boundaries" (Korbel 39).1 As a result, Poland had no choice but to attack Russia. Soon after, Britain tried to end this war. It was then that the Curzon Line was created. This line indicated the boarders between Poland on one side and Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, and Lithuania on the other...
 * The invasion of Poland took place on September 1, 1939 and it started the World War II. Since France and Great Britain promised to defend Poland, Great B ritain declared war on Germany.
 * On September 17, 1939 Soviet troops entered the city of Vilna. Within an eighteen day period Poland was conquered by Germany and the Soviet Union. Obviously, Poland was not as strong as the two invading countries. The aid from France was also stopped by Germany. The Polish government officials' only choice was to flee to Romania.
 * Secretive refugee movements from Poland and Russia took place. These were numbers of Jewish people and outcasts as well as the Polish from Russia and the Russians from Poland.

http://econc10.bu.edu/economic_systems/NatIdentity/EE/Poland/polgerus.html