"Russia sent columns of tanks and reportedly bombed Georgian air bases Friday after Georgia launched a major military offensive Friday to retake the breakaway province of South Ossetia, threatening to ignite a broader conflict. Hundreds of civilians...
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" 1801 - Russian Empire swallows up a large area of modern-day Georgia 1864 - Abkhazia annexed by Russian Empire 1918 - Georgia declares independence 1921 - Red Army invades and Georgia becomes a Soviet...
" Georgian tanks have launched an attack on Tskhinvali, the capital of the breakaway province of South Ossetia, according to Russia's Interfax news agency. Simultaneously, Georgian fighter jets attacked...
Another clash recently happen in Europe. Between Georgian and separatist South Ossetian forces have exchanged fire and wounding several people."At least six people have been killed in clashes in the region in...
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The conflict in the Caucasus country of Georgia is growing to alarming levels. The country is fighting with a break-away region in teh North called Abkhazia, where an ethnic minority lives. The area is currently de-facto independent, and Russia is backing the area's claims to...
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Georgia break aways regions- Abkhazia and South Ossetia- continue to rebel against Tblisi control. With the backing of Russia, these separatist regions have not managed to get international recognition. According...
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Abkhazia, a break-away region of the caucasus nation of George that is under Russian occupation, is at the center of a new dispute between the two countries. Since the regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetiafought wars in the 1990's with Georgia, the country has been occupied...
"This incident follows in the footsteps of the Russian air raid on the Georgian-controlled Kodori Gorge in upper Abkhazia on March 11 (see EDM, March 19, 20). The United Nations led the investigation into that incident, dragged its feet as long as it could, and published the...
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" Georgian special services have foiled an attempt by a Russian citizen to sell weapons-grade uranium for $1 million (508,000 pounds) to agents he thought were radical Islamists, a senior Interior Ministry official said on Thursday.
The official said Oleg Khintsagov, a...