More military power for Medvedev

Approximately 15 months after the war in the Caucasus the Russian Duma has given its approval for Russian armed forces to be deployed abroad for the purposes of preventing piracy and protecting its own people. This legal basis for international deployments could however be abused, the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung notes: "Under [this legislation] the armed forces could also be deployed to protect Russian citizens living abroad against armed attacks. Bearing in mind that Moscow first of all generously handed out Russian passports to the inhabitants of South Ossetia - which declared its independence from Georgia - and then sent its troops to help them, for those of Russia's neighbours with Russian population sections this law will be a source of concern rather than relief."

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