Defence Ministry Press Briefing 23/3/08
Published: 23 August, 2008, 10:15
Edited: 02 October, 2010, 22:26
In Saturday's press briefing Russia's Deputy General Staff Anaytoly Nogovitsyn confirmed that Russian troops assisting peacekeepers in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone had fully completed their withdrawal.
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‘Human rights were violated’ in Ossetia – European watchdogEurope’s top human rights official has arrived in war-ravaged South Ossetia on a fact-finding mission. Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg from the Council of Europe Human is being accompanied by his Russian counterpart Vladi |
Russian troops complete Georgia withdrawalThe final Russian troops assisting peacekeepers in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone completed their withdrawal on Friday, according to a Defence Ministry spokesman. Peacekeepers forces will remain in South Osset |

