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Russia's Moves Add To Strains With Georgia
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem May 01, 2008 08:49am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Wednesday, April 30, 2008 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Buildup in Separatist Area Follows Downing of Drone
By Peter Finn
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, May 1, 2008; Page A10
MOSCOW, April 30 -- Long-standing tensions between Russia and Georgia over two separatist regions in Georgia have flared dangerously in recent days with each country accusing the other of provocative actions that risk war.
Russia moved troops and armor into Abkhazia this week to respond to what officials here said was a Georgian military buildup along the unofficial border with the breakaway region of the Caucasus republic.
The Russian Defense Ministry said the deployment was allowed under a 1994 cease-fire that stationed Russian troops in the region to prevent the kind of fighting that broke out between Georgia and separatists after the fall of the Soviet Union. Both Abkhazia and the region of South Ossetia have been de facto independent since breaking from Georgian control in the early 1990s.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said any Georgian military action would lead to "retaliatory actions," but stressed at a meeting with European Union ministers Tuesday that Russia "isn't planning to go to war." |
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