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« on: August 30, 2008, 09:44:15 AM » |
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Kremlin announces that South Ossetia will join 'one united Russian state'
Russian soldiers adjust a Russian flag in the South Ossetian city of Tskhinvali (Viktor
Tony Halpin in Moscow
The Kremlin moved swiftly to tighten its grip on Georgia’s breakaway regions yesterday as South Ossetia announced that it would soon become part of Russia, which will open military bases in the province under an agreement to be signed on Tuesday.
Tarzan Kokoity, the province’s Deputy Speaker of parliament, announced that South Ossetia would be absorbed into Russia soon so that its people could live in “one united Russian state” with their ethnic kin in North Ossetia.
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