Russia Begins Georgia Pull Out -- The Telegraph
Russia has dismantled a checkpoint and begun pulling a small number of troops out of Georgia.
The moves raised hopes that the crisis in the Caucasus could be concluded peacefully despite a deadly car bomb attack last week in the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
A company of soldiers dismantled a checkpoint near the village of Ali on the southwest perimeter of a buffer zone surrounding South Ossetia, the separatist region that has, with Moscow's support, fought a 17-year rebellion against the Georgian government.
Russian soldiers also appeared to be preparing to withdraw from two more villages, one near South Ossetia and a second outside Zugdidi, a city close to Abkhazia, another Moscow-backed rebel region.
Under an European Union-brokered deal negotiated by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, Russia is supposed to withdraw all its troops from undisputed Georgian territory by Friday. Russia occupied positions deep inside Georgia proper in the days after a ceasefire was signed to end a five-day war in August.
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Russia clears Georgia checkpoint
The moves raised hopes that the crisis in the Caucasus could be concluded peacefully despite a deadly car bomb attack last week in the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
A company of soldiers dismantled a checkpoint near the village of Ali on the southwest perimeter of a buffer zone surrounding South Ossetia, the separatist region that has, with Moscow's support, fought a 17-year rebellion against the Georgian government.
Russian soldiers also appeared to be preparing to withdraw from two more villages, one near South Ossetia and a second outside Zugdidi, a city close to Abkhazia, another Moscow-backed rebel region.
Under an European Union-brokered deal negotiated by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, Russia is supposed to withdraw all its troops from undisputed Georgian territory by Friday. Russia occupied positions deep inside Georgia proper in the days after a ceasefire was signed to end a five-day war in August.
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Under an European Union-brokered deal negotiated by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, Russia is supposed to withdraw all its troops from undisputed Georgian territory by Friday. Russia occupied positions deep inside Georgia proper in the days after a ceasefire was signed to end a five-day war in August.
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EU Georgia monitors see sign of Russian pullback -- Reuters
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