Friday, December 14, 2007 - 5:35 PM

Autocrats rejoice! The nasty spat between Russia and Belarus—so disheartening to those longing for a Soviet revival—has been patched up. Belarus gets cheap gas, and Russia gets support against American missile defense. (Still, revanchists didn't get everything they wanted: there had been speculation that Putin would announce a Russia-Belarus "union state", with Putin as its president.)
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