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Thu 08 Aug 2008Russia will occupy 'buffer zone' in Georgian territory
RUSSIA MADE clear yesterday that it had no intention of bowing to Nato calls for a withdrawal to the positions its forces held before the invasion of Georgia.
Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of the Russian military's general staff, said a battalion of about 270 soldiers would occupy a swath of Georgian territory around the enclaves of Abkhazia and South Ossetia after the withdrawal of troops from central Georgia.
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