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Russia invades, Bombs Georgia.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
While Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was in Beijing schmoozing with world leaders during the opening ceremonies of the Olympics on August 8, Russian troops, tanks, and bombers were launching a surprise attack on neighboring Georgia. A former Soviet republic, Georgia gained nominal independence in 1991 with the formal dissolution of the USSR. It then joined the Russian-controlled Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). However, Russia has kept Georgia's provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in turmoil ever since by backing--militarily, diplomatically, and economically--breakaway separatist forces in those areas.
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