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Article: Russia tightens its stranglehold on South Ossetia despite cease-fire; INTERNATIONAL.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- August 21, 2008
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Russia yesterday revealed plans to consolidate its hold on the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia.
With its troops showing no sign of obeying a cease-fire deal to pull out, a senior general announced that a series of checkpoints manned by hundreds of soldiers will be built in the socalled "security zone" around the province's border.
The Russian region was the flashpoint of fighting this month that ...