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Mon 08 Aug 2008Russia denies breaking ceasefire deal in Georgia
GEORGIA:RUSSIA HAS rejected western claims that it was breaking a ceasefire deal by maintaining military checkpoints deep inside Georgia.
Having driven the strategic Black Sea state's military far from the separatist enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russia is accused by officials in Tbilisi of seeking to oust its pro-western leadership and wreck the nation's bid to join Nato and its fast-growing economy.
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