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As a European Union report into last year’s conflict between Georgia and Russia puts a large part of the blame on Georgia, the BBC’s Tom Esslemont in Tbilisi asks where this leaves the small Caucasian nation.
Even before the EU-sponsored report was...
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Venezuela will recognise the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, President Hugo Chavez says.
Venezuela will become the third country to support...
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On his first postwar visit to Abkhazia, one of the separatist territories at the center of last year’s war with Georgia, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin pledged at...
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President Dmitry Medvedev has declared that Russia formally recognises the independence of the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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Russia has warned it will retaliate if Georgia uses force against its breakaway regions.
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Local residents play chess along the Black Sea coast in Sukhumi, Abkhazia on Wednesday Nov. 12, 2008. Signs of Russian influence in the capital of this breakaway Georgian province are everywhere. The Russian tri-color flies alongside the green and white.
