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Mon 10 Oct 2008Russia pulls back from Georgian buffer zones
RUSSIA:RUSSIAN TROOPS are dismantling checkpoints in so-called buffer zones around the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, contrary to fears in Tbilisi that they would use a deadly car bomb attack as a pre-text to delay their withdrawal, writes Daniel McLaughlin
Georgian officials and European Union monitors reported seeing Russian soldiers retreating from a checkpoint near South Ossetia and the town of Zugdidi close to Abkhazia, almost six weeks after Moscow recognised the two provinces as independent states.
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