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17.06.2009, 21:07
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The reputable German news magazine has sparked uproar in its latest issue by proclaiming that Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili started the war by attacking South Ossetia on August 7, 2008.
02.08.2009, 10:53
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Russia says it is prepared to use force to protect its troops and civilians in South Ossetia if Georgia continues its military provocations, according to Russian officials.
16.08.2009, 09:21
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While the US is sending marines to Georgia to train a Georgian battalion, set to be deployed on a mission in Afghanistan next spring, ordinary people in Georgia are not so sure the country has chosen the right friend.
26.08.2009, 22:19
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“Russia, I suppose, had to respond to that [Georgian assault], but the way it responded… was devastating to its image,” says Donald Rayfield, professor of Georgian and Russian Studies at the University of London.
11.08.2010, 17:03
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The Russian military has deployed an S-300 long-range air defense system on the territory of Abkhazia. Georgia sees the move as a threat to its security.
04.08.2010, 22:41
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Moscow insists that the international community should refrain from selling weaponry to Georgia, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin has said.
31.07.2009, 00:49
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One year since the military conflict in the Caucasus, it is feared that hostilities might resume. South Ossetian authorities claim the republic’s capital Tskhinval was attacked from a Georgian village.
29.06.2009, 15:50
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“Kavkaz-2009” – a military exercise of a scale comparable to those in the Soviet era begins on Monday in Southern Russia. It will run until July 6, when US President Barack Obama arrives in Moscow.
02.03.2009, 15:56
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Russian authorities believe the human remains that Georgia has returned belong to the pilot of a TU-22 reconnaissance bomber. The plane had been shot down during the Georgia-South Ossetia August war in 2008.
14.04.2010, 14:35
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The Foreign Ministers of South Ossetia and Nicaragua, Murat Dhulioyev and Samuel Santos Lopez, have signed a declaration in Tskhinval establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Published: 18 May, 2009, 11:47
Russian military cargo planes are delivering humanitarian aid to Abkhazia in the form of school books, medical supplies and children's toys. It is being taken to villages by Russian doctors and schoolteachers.
