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The U.N. Security Council agreed Friday to a four-month extension of a peacekeeping mission monitoring a cease-fire between Georgia and the separatist Abkhazia region.
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Sukhumi:
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.
