Georgian checkpoint dismantled

Russian troops routed Georgian forces in a brief war last month after Georgia tried to recapture South Ossetia, which like Abkhazia is a separatist, pro-Russian region of the former Soviet republic. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused European Union leaders on Wednesday (September 10) of unscrupulously distorting a Russia-EU deal on the deployment of international ceasefire monitors in Georgia.

Reuters | September 10, 2008

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