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Georgia refuses to return remains of Russian pilot

Published: 16 March, 2009, 22:23


Georgia refuses to return the remains of a Russian pilot whose plane was shot down during the war in South Ossetia in August 2008. Instead, Russia has only received unverified DNA samples written in Georgian.

 
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