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The boys thought it was a firework and tried to light it, but it detonated. Roman was blinded in one eye and left with shrapnel wounds to his face, while Zamat lost his thumb. They still cannot believe an innocent day out playing has left them scarred...
Tags: Burkina Faso, Lon, South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, Bombs, Unexploded ordnance, War Conflict
Tbilisi, however, is demanding the immediate release of the youngsters, saying children must not be used as political pawns. When the teens were detained, they showed the South Ossetian police where they had hidden their bag, in which, next to loaves...
Tags: South Ossetian, Georgian, Burkina Faso, Lon, War Conflict, South Ossetia, Western Asia, Georgian¬タモOssetian conflict
Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region, recognized as an independent state by Russia, has cut another of its ties with Georgia by adopting Russia's international dialing code. Russia recognized pro-Western Georgia's rebel regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia,...
Tags: Georgian Foreign Ministry, Russia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Georgia, Tbilisi, Disputed territories, Politics of Georgia, Sergei Bagapsh, Outline of Abkhazia, Western Asia, Caucasus, South Ossetia war, Politics, War Conflict
More than a year after the Georgian-Ossetian war, 11-year-old Sofiko Okropiridze still relives the horrors of it daily. “We left the village on August 9 in papa’s car...It was so scary,” she reluctantly remembered when asked to describe leaving the family’s...
Tags: Georgian-Ossetian, Abkhazian, Georgia-Russia, Tbilisi, Dito Razmadze, Giorgi, Georgia, South Ossetia, Ossetia, Georgian¬タモOssetian conflict, South Ossetia war, Abkhazia, Western Asia, Caucasus, Disputed territories
U.N. officials involved in talks on the Russian-Georgian conflict said overall security in the region was stable, despite concerns about recent detentions. The eighth round of talks on last year's conflict in South Ossetia, co-chaired by the UN, the European...
Tags: Russian-Georgian, Georgian Foreign Ministry, South Ossetian, Georgia, Tbilisi, Disputed territories, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Ossetia, Caucasus, Western Asia, South Ossetia war, Politics, War Conflict, Anaklia, Law Crime, Tskhinvali
29 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his US counterpart Hillary Clinton will meet in Moscow next week to discuss the details of a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The Russian Foreign Ministry made the announcement on the aftermath of the...
Tags: South Ossetia, Russian Foreign Ministry, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Abkhazia, Bank of Russia, Moscow
This is hardly surprising as it was clear from the beginning that the Georgian president made the first moves but obviously failed to gauge the magnitude of Russian reaction. It would seem that the neither enclave will now be part of...
Tags: South Ossetia, Abkhazia, EU, Georgia, Georgia Russia conflict
The report also says that Russia was preparing for a possible conflict. Russia’s actions have been qualified as a response to the Georgian military operation. At the same time the commission says that Russia used excessive force, which led to the conflict...
Tags: Russia-Georgia, EU Report Faults Georgia, Georgian, Russian, South Ossetia, georgia started, European Union, international law, georgia war, Saakashvili
On the eve of a European Union report on who started the Russia-Georgia war, EU monitors have stepped up their patrols in Georgia to try to keep tensions from boiling over into violence, an official said Tuesday. The August 2008 war ended with Russian...
Tags: Georgian, Russia-Georgia, Russian, South Ossetia, European Union, eu monitors, war crimes, georgians official, crimes cited, troops crossed
Vyacheslav Chirikba, an adviser to the Abkhazian President joined RT to share details of the security move. “Following Georgia’s actions – capturing peaceful cargo ships en route to Abkhazia in international waters – Russia felt compelled to protect...
Tags: Georgian, Abkhazian, Russia, South Ossetia, Moscow