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People in the Georgian breakaway region South Ossetia have been rallying in support of their independence — and possible union with Russia. Moscow says it will respect any decision the South Ossetians ...
If Russia exited Georgia — as it should — and the Bush administration dropped its wish to expand NATO to Russia’s border — as it should — there would still be an issue to be dealt with: the ...
On August 26, South Ossetia will celebrate its tenth anniversary of independence – of a sort. In 2008, shortly after the war with Georgia, Russia became the first country to formally recognize this ...
The leader of Russia-backed South Ossetia worries that Georgian doctors are undermining the breakaway entity’s health. During a cabinet session of the de-facto South Ossetian government held March 2, ...
A small, savage conflict that started three three decades ago in the Caucasus Mountains still has daily consequences for ethnic Georgians and Ossetians. 1 A woman sits in her apartment, which was ...
In June 1994, the presidents of Russia's republics of Ingushetia and North Ossetia signed an agreement to resettle Ingush who had been displaced two years earlier during a short armed conflict with ...
A big poster of Russian leader Vladimir Putin greets visitors to the capital of separatist-held South Ossetia — a clear signal of what most residents hope is to come. Both chambers of Russia's ...
KHETAGUROVO, Georgia -- Say hello in Georgian in this Ossetian hamlet these days, and the reply may be a scolding. No one says "gamarjoba" now, warned Svetlana Pukhaeva, the village's 64-year-old ...
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