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Russia to double its troops in breakaway regions



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Published Date: 10 September 2008
By Conor Sweeney
in Moscow
RUSSIA announced plans yesterday to station about 7,600 troops in Georgia's separatist regions, more than twice the number based there before last month's war and a level likely to alarm the West.
Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said troops would stay in South Ossetia and Abkhazia for a long time to prevent a repeat of "Georgian aggression".

Moscow's use of its forces to crush an attempt by Georgia to retake South Ossetia drew
international condemnation and prompted concern over the security of energy supplies.

Russia agreed on Monday to withdraw its soldiers from areas outside South Ossetia and the second breakaway region of Abkhazia within a month, but troops inside the regions were not mentioned in a French-brokered deal.

The Russian defence minister, Anatoly Serdyukov, said: "We have already agreed on the contingent – in the region of 3,800 men in each republic – its structure and location."

Russia angered the West by recognising the regions, which threw off Tbilisi's rule in wars in the 1990s, as independent states. Nicaragua is the only other state to have recognised them.

Mr Lavrov also met the two regions' foreign ministers yesterday to formally establish diplomatic ties.

Asked how long the Russian forces would stay, he said: "They will be there for a long time ... that is necessary to not allow a repeat of Georgian aggression."





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  • Last Updated: 09 September 2008 11:03 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Russia
 
1

Dragonhead,

Dalian,China 10/09/2008 01:00:37
Shades of Poland, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany,Latvia,Afghanistan,North-East China,Hungary and other places the Russians have freed of responsibility to govern themselves.A bit like the Colonial British, but with less trimmings. "Russia warns..."Really nice neighbours.
2

Mashimaro,

China 10/09/2008 01:11:51
Someone has to keep the Georgian loon in check.
3

Itchy,

10/09/2008 06:44:21
#2 Loon?

From the man who cheered on Robert Mugabe and then denounced him as a British puppet?

From a man who thought that 10 million land-owning peasants deserved to die?

Oh dear.
4

Mashimaro,

China 10/09/2008 09:42:40
#3 The man thought it would be a good idea to attack civillians during the Olympic opening days. He lost the Games LOL
5

Rob Bennett,

Point Piper Australia 10/09/2008 16:10:41
Saakashvili is definately a loon there's no 2 ways about it. He was filmed on BBC eating his tie. The Ukraine Party of Regions has sent him 365 more ties to munch on. Regarding the bombing of South Ossetia, he agreed the timing was not coincidental, but accused Russia of being the aggressor. "Most decision makers have gone for the holidays," he said in an interview with CNN. "Brilliant moment to attack a small country" I believe that comment pretty much sums up the belligerent party.
6

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10/09/2008 16:13:48
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Andrew BOD,

Aberdeen/shire 10/09/2008 19:53:33
6 Brage

Your simplistic view of this conflict is misleading.

Try digging deeper to find out what went on before the conflict started. Look at Abkhazia where Georgians used to be in the majority, but where 20,000 were killed in the early nineties, and where another 200,000 were then ethnically cleansed from that small state.

Find out about the tens of thousands of Russian passports that were handed to Abkhazians and S.Ossetians, by the so-called Russian peacekeepers, in what was, and still is, sovereign Georgian territory.

And who actually supports Russia's declaration of independence for those two states? China? No way. I think only US-hating Libya and Venezuala.

Try giving up 'rumours' and find out the facts instead.
8

Rob Bennett,

Point Piper Australia 11/09/2008 02:57:32
#7 Andrew BOD,Aberdeen/shire - Actually you're the one that needs to delve deeper. As I pointed out earlier Saakashvili was trained in the USA by the CIA and is a close personal friend of war criminal Dick Cheney. Saakashvili came to power through the Rose revolution backed by US billionaire George Soros. Several of Saakashvili's cabinet ministers are Israelites. Do your homework Andrew. Since when do the Scottish stoop and serve the English and Americans? Rise above the Murdoch, CNN, Fox news propaganda Andrew. Anyone that sits back and allows the US to increase their 750 foreign military bases around the world is a supporter of Hitler.
9

Rob Bennett,

Point Piper Australia 11/09/2008 03:12:02
The Bolivian president Evo Morales who won in a landslide election with 67% has expelled the US's jewish born ambassador Philip S. Goldberg accusing him of supporting rebellious groups in eastern regions that have been rocked by intensifying protests this week. The ex hard working farmer said “We do not want people here who conspire against democracy” Here we have the USA interfering in Bolivian politics in the same manner they interfered in Georgia.
10

James Donald,

Newbridge 11/09/2008 17:02:53
Useful idiots come in all shapes and sizes:
"Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has accused the United States of emboldening Georgia to start a war in the Caucasus to test Russian resolve.
Mr Kadyrov, who is a keen supporter of the Russian government, said Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili had been dancing to Washington's tune"
"Mr Kadyrov confirmed that Chechen units and paramilitaries had fought with Russians against Georgians in South Ossetia last month.
"We Chechens are obliged to be on the front line with Russia because we are warriors, and we know what war is," he explained".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7609557.stm
This is a bit rich from Putin's Quisling puppet leader in Chechnya, who has his own private militia that specialises in murder, kidnap and torture.



 

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