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Georgian vigilante group ‘downs South Ossetian drone’

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The Georgian State Security Service presented the drone to jour­nal­ists. (Photo: Imedi)

Georgian vigilante group Power in Unity has claimed respon­si­bil­i­ty for bringing down an unarmed South Ossetian drone. South Ossetian author­i­ties reacted angrily to the downing, accusing the Georgian police of shooting down the drone them­selves.  [Read more…]

South Ossetia orders tit-for-tat checkpoint construction in latest border escalation 

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South Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov during a visit to Tsnelisi on 28 August. (Photo: Yuzhnaya Osetiya)

South Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov has announced the con­struc­tion of a check­point in the village of Tsnelisi (Uista) after unsuc­cess­ful nego­ti­a­tions with the Georgian gov­ern­ment to remove their own check­point in the area.  [Read more…]

South Ossetia tensions rise as Georgia sets up new police checkpoint

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The 95th Incident Pre­ven­tion and Response Mechanism meeting ended pre­ma­ture­ly. (Photo: EUMM)

A heated meeting between Georgian and South Ossetian officials has ended without results after Georgian police set up a new police check­point near the border. The meeting came at a time of increased tension following the erection by Russian troops of new fences along the disputed South Ossetian border. [Read more…]

New ‘borderisation’ in South Ossetia cuts off property of two Georgian families 

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The new fence near Gugutiantkari. (Photo: Embassy of Ukraine to Georgia / Facebook)

The property and land of two Georgian families have been cut off from Georgian gov­ern­ment-con­trolled territory in the village of Gugutiantkari, near South Ossetia, after Russian border guards set up new fences on 7 August. [Read more…]

South Ossetian journalist accused of ‘slander and forgery’ acquitted by local court

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Tamara Mear­ak­ishvili in court (/Facebook)

The Akhalgori (Leningor) District court has found South Ossetian jour­nal­ist Tamara Mear­ak­ishvili not guilty of charges of slander and falsely obtaining cit­i­zen­ship on the basis of forged doc­u­men­ta­tion.

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Russian MP’s appearance in Georgian Parliament sparks protests across Georgia

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Russian Duma MP Sergey Gavrilov address­ing the Georgian par­lia­ment. (1TV)

The appear­ance of a Russian Duma MP in the Georgian Par­lia­men­tary chair seat has triggered protests across Georgia as politi­cians from both oppo­si­tion and ruling parties condemned the action. Sergey Gavrilov, who was escorted out of par­lia­ment, warned that ‘nego­ti­a­tions on human­i­tar­i­an-economic issues between the two countries may fail’ due to the incident. [Read more…]

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