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Mark Saylor, the former L.A. Times editor who got his start in crisis PR at Sitrick and Co., has been hired to represent the Georgian breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia — and the money may really be traced back to the government of Russia. Steven Mikulan pokes around for LA Daily.
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