Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has said that Russian troops will stay in Georgia's breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia for a long time to come.
Lavrov's statement comes after a French-brokered deal that saw Russia agree to pull out of Georgia once 200 EU monitors had been deployed. The deal, cautiously welcomed by Georgia's president Mikhail Saakashvili, does not apply to the Black Sea Russia to keep Georgian buffer zone ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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