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A Russian serviceman stands near a road sign as troops prepare to leave a checkpoint in the Georgian village of Karaleti, some 90 km (56 miles) west of Tbilisi October 7, 2008. Russia will pull its troops back on Wednesday from the southern edge of a buffer zone inside Georgia surrounding the territory of South Ossetia, a senior Russian military officer said. Russia has until Friday to withdraw all its troops from the 'security zones' it has set up inside core Georgian territory -- adjacent to South Ossetia and a second breakaway region, Abkhazia -- under a ceasefire deal brokered by EU president France following the Russia-Georgia war in August. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (GEORGIA)