South Ossetia: establishing contacts, healing wounds
Published: 07 August, 2009, 22:37
“Those who armed the aggressor should be punished as well” – that is the view of Eduard Kokoity, the president of South Ossetia.
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02.08.2009, 10:53
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Russia says it is prepared to use force to protect its troops and civilians in South Ossetia if Georgia continues its military provocations, according to Russian officials.
Moscow insists that it is time to broaden interactive opportunities for all the parties to the Geneva talks on the Caucasus, Russia's permanent representative to the OSCE Anvar Azimov has said.
16.07.2010, 15:36
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President Lukashenko, having lost ground in Moscow, has now turned to the Kremlin’s foes and is enjoying warm relations with his former critic Georgian leader Saakashvili. What could be behind this sudden mutual love?
06.08.2010, 12:20
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NATO states are using economic methods in an attempt to help Georgia reclaim South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russia’s permanent representative to the alliance Dmitry Rogozin has said.
10.10.2009, 09:16
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An EU commission report may have pointed the finger at Georgia for causing the 2008 conflict in South Ossetia, but there is anger in Russia that some media in the West are not listening.
23.06.2009, 19:11
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Western countries have failed to create a sustainable European security system following the end of the Cold War, and it is time for a change. On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov voiced his vision of the issue.
26.08.2009, 22:19
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“Russia, I suppose, had to respond to that [Georgian assault], but the way it responded… was devastating to its image,” says Donald Rayfield, professor of Georgian and Russian Studies at the University of London.
08.08.2009, 20:42
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says Georgia could have kept Abkhazia and South Ossetia within its territory if it had treated its people with respect.
08.08.2010, 19:27
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During his visit to Abkhazia, Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev met with Russian tourists and discussed the 2008 Georgian-South Ossetian war and Russia’s subsequent recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia with them.
Moscow has decided to remove its South Ossetian border checkpoint, describing the move as “an exam for Georgia’s restraint and respectability.”
Published: 07 August, 2009, 22:37
“Those who armed the aggressor should be punished as well” – that is the view of Eduard Kokoity, the president of South Ossetia.