South Ossetia: Thorn in Georgia&#39;s side
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South Ossetia has been a de-facto independent region of Georgia since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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20 August 2004 -- For the first time in a week, no fighting was reported overnight in Georgia&#39;s separatist region of South Ossetia.
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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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Four people are reported to have been killed in clashes in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia.
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TBILISI, Aug 18  - Artillery fire killed at least three Georgian soldiers in the breakaway South Ossetia region, Georgian officials said on Wednesday, despite a truce deal meant to head off all-out war.
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MOSCOW (CP) - War clouds are gathering over the former Soviet Caucasus region as Georgia&#39;s US-backed President Mikheil Saakashvili moves to re-unite his fractured nation by pressuring two separatist provinces that have close ties to Russia.
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In its statement issued on August 20 Russian Foreign Ministry welcomed Georgia&#39;s decision to pull out its extra troops from the South Ossetian conflict zone.
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Georgian forces seized strategic heights from separatist fighters in rebel South Ossetia Thursday and President Mikhail Saakashvili promised more such victories to fulfill a pledge to reunite his fractious country.
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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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MOSCOW -- Maintaining control over the North Caucasus region, where the plains of southern Russia give way to mountain ridges and the predominant faith changes from Orthodox Christianity to Islam, has been Moscow's headache for centuries.
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At least two Georgian soldiers were killed and five wounded in artillery fire with separatists in the breakaway region of South Ossetia, Georgian officials said on Wednesday.
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TBILISI : Shooting resumed in Georgia&#39;s pro-Russia separatist region of South Ossetia, as President Mikhail Saakashvili appealed for international peacekeepers to mediate the escalating conflict.
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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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Politics: 18 September 2004, Saturday. While discussing ideas for providing humanitarian help to crisis-vulnerable regions in the Caucasus through the OSCE, the first diplomats of Bulgaria and Russia talked the ...
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Overnight clashes killed six Georgian  servicemen in the rebel South Ossetia region, which Tbilisi is  trying to bring back under government control, Deputy Security  Minister Gigi Ugulava said on Thursday.
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SUKHUMI, Georgia  - The breakaway Georgian region  of Abkhazia defiantly voted for a new president on Sunday,  injecting further tension into relations between Georgia and  its former colonial master Russia.
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STANFORD, California During the last year, the world has been watching Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgia&#39;s dynamic young president, try to reunite his country and his people. In November he staged a bloodless coup, dubbed the &quot;Rose Revolution,&quot; overthrowing ...