McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
TBILISI, Georgia — Russia declared a cease-fire in Georgia on Tuesday after a five-day war that left Georgia's military in tatters and Russia seemingly on the verge of reasserting old Soviet-style authority over its neighbors.
But Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and the heads of state of five other nations that had once been dominated by the Soviet Union vowed never to concede the independence they've enjoyed since 1991, when the Soviet Union was dissolved.
"The entire world is with us," Saakashvili told a crowd of thousands that thronged downtown Tbilisi in a late night rally.
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