Foreign ministers from separatist regions criticize Georgia, Moldova
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The sharp deterioration of the situations in South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transdniestria are the direct outcome of the attempts by Tbilisi and Chisinau to resolve the conflicts by the use of force, says a joint ...
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BRUSSELS, Feb 21 (IPS) - Wishing to emulate Kosovo's example, the  Moldovan breakaway region of Transnistria is increasingly  rejecting the prospect of a unified state, just as the European  Union (EU) begins to step in.
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MOSCOW Russia&#39;s foreign minister on Wednesday defended sweeping political changes announced earlier this week by President Vladimir Putin, telling the United States and other critics that the plans were an internal matter.
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TSKHINVALI, Georgia -- Explosions and gunfire echoed over this regional capital Thursday as government troops battled South Ossetian separatists over key hills outside town, after a week of near nightly clashes that escalated into some of the worst ...
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THE HAGUE Foreign Minister Ben Bot of the Netherlands, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, on Sunday criticized French and Austrian plans to hold referendums on Turkish membership in the EU, saying such moves could keep Turkey out
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Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Georgia&#39;s repetition of the ``foolish&#39;&#39; policy toward its regions in the 1990s is prompting the unrest involving South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, according to Interfax.
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Moldova's government pledged Tuesday to tighten economic sanctions against breakaway province of Trans-Dniester, promising to reject goods that have come through the region in a move likely to increase tensions ...
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Fighting in Georgia's separatist pro-Russia region of South Ossetia killed another three Georgian servicemen and wounded five in the escalating conflict warily watched by Moscow and the West.
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Russia recalled its ambassador, announced the evacuation of its diplomats and complained to the United Nations on Thursday after Georgia detained five Russian officers on spying charges, bringing relations between the ex-Soviet neighbors to a new low.
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Moldova's image in Europe depends on the way the upcoming parliamentary elections in this country are organized, head of the PACE rapporteurs group Josette Durieu told journalists on Monday.
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Three Georgian peacekeepers were killed in overnight shooting in South Ossetia, officials said Wednesday, while Russia scoffed at Georgia's appeal for foreign mediation in the breakaway region where daily exchanges of gunfire have stoked fears of war.
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NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Thursday called on the European Union, the United States, Russia and Ukraine to help find a solution to the urgent problem of Moldova s breakaway Dnestr region.
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New tensions emerge on Georgia's border with Azerbaijan over claims of smuggling and a rail dispute.
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Georgia held talks with its breakaway region of South Ossetia hosted by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Wednesday, but failed to find any solution to their long-standing conflict.
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A summit of ex-Soviet republics billed as forging a common front against terrorism after the Beslan school siege descended into acrimony as Georgia accused Russia of double standards.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- US Secretary of State Colin Powell has called Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov over the conflict in Georgia&#39;s breakaway region of South Ossetia, State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said on Tuesday.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- At least three Georgian servicemen have been killed and seven wounded in rebel South Ossetia as the central government in Tbilisi tries to bring to bring the breakaway ethnic region back under government control.