When Kyrgyzstan announced it was ending the US lease on Manas Air Base -- a vital logistics hub for coalition operations in Afghanistan -- many analysts saw Moscow as drawing the strings. Now that Kyrgystan has agreed to renewing the US lease -- in return for triple rent -- the Russian foreign ministry has accused the Kyrgyz government of "treachery". If that isn't an admission by Moscow that Russia did in fact instigate the original American ouster, what is?
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