Washington Times:

Russia threatens Poland over pact with U.S.

A senior Russian military official on Friday threatened Poland for agreeing to a treaty with the U.S., as President Bush called on the Kremlin to stop "bullying" the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in Georgia's capital of Tsibili, persuaded Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to sign a treaty with Russia and then called on Russia to remove all of its military forces from the small country "immediately."

"With the signing of this accord, all Russian troops, and any paramilitary and irregular troops that entered with them must leave immediately," she said.

Meanwhile, Russian Colonel-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn said Poland's decision on Thursday to host a U.S.-backed missile defense system had made the former communist bloc country a "target" for Russian military action.....[read more]