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Suicide Car Bomber Kills 17 in Russia

(Sept. 9) -- A suicide car bomber struck a busy market today in Russia's North Caucasus, killing 17 people and wounding more than 130 in a normally quiet Christian enclave that has mostly avoided previous attacks by the region's Muslim separatists. The bomb exploded at the main entrance to the Vladikavkaz market around...

Russia Deploys Missiles in Georgian Province

(Aug. 12) -- Russia has deployed surface-to-air missiles in a breakaway province of neighboring Georgia near where tensions erupted into a brief border war two years ago. Russian media quoted the country's air force commander, Gen. Alexander Zelin, as saying Wednesday that the S-300 missiles would serve as an...

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Ex-KGB Boss Wins Presidential Election In South Ossetia

A former KGB chief on Monday scored a victory in the runoff presidential election in Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia.

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05/31/12 Russian spy case: 7,000 maps bring 12-year sentence Source: Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles CA A retired Russian Defense Ministry official was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison for passing on about 7,000 maps he bought from a Russian collector to a man who gave them to the Pentagon, authorities said.
05/31/12 Georgia and Russia: The Occupation Too Many Have... Source: The Heritage Foundation Almost four years after the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008, approximately 10,000 Russian troops still occupy the Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
05/25/12 Dzhioyeva Made Deputy PM In S.Ossetia Source: RFE/RFL Newsline Russia South Ossetian leader Leonid Tibilov has signed a decree appointing former presidential candidate Alla Dzhioyeva to be deputy prime minister.
05/24/12 South Ossetia: From the Hospital to the (De-Facto)... Source: EurasiaNet.org After spending weeks locked up in a hospital, breakaway South Ossetia's embattled opposition leader has become the troubled region's de-facto deputy prime minister through a power-sharing pact with the ruling establishment.
05/24/12 Dzhioyeva Appointed South Ossetia's Deputy PM Source: RFE/RFL Newsline Russia South Ossetian leader Leonid Tibilov has signed a decree appointing former presidential candidate Alla Dzhioyeva to be deputy prime minister.