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Old Apr 18, 2010 | 8:40 am
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Originally Posted by hbush
Yet somehow Polish air space is safe enough for Russian president Medvedev to fly directly to Krakov to take part in air crash victims burial. Huge political win for Russians, specially because Obama, Merkel etc. have cancelled their participation because of the volcanic ash...
It may be a "huge political win," but I think that the fact that Medvedev was coming from the east and the others from the west was the actual, pragmatic reason for their cancellations.

See the posting by Quark999 just above this one.
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