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    GEORGIAN AUTHORITIES KEEP 15,000 ETHNIC OSSETIANS AT CHECKPOINTS, USE THEM FOR PROPAGANDA

    Regnum
    Sept 1 2008
    Russia

    Russia has initiated cooperation with the Georgian side at the border
    checkpoints, facilitating return of residents of South and North
    Ossetia who are currently in Georgia to their homes. Russian Foreign
    Ministry's representative Andrey Nesterenko informed journalists of
    the situation at a briefing in Moscow Sep 1, 2008, REGNUM correspondent
    reports.

    According to the diplomat, Russia's efforts have brought results: about
    1,000 Russian citizens have returned home through the Verkhny Lars
    checkpoint. Still, up to 15,000 Russian citizens, ethnic Ossetians,
    remain in the territory of Georgia. They have difficulties in returning
    home and are looking for ways to do it through the territories
    of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey, Nesterenko stated. Tbilisi is
    using the civilians in a political propaganda show, keeping them
    at checkpoints.

    "Tbilisi wants to make the puppet government of Dmitry Sanakoyev
    a guarantor of the ethnic Ossetians' returning home. We have been
    informed that the Georgian border control officers do not let Ossetians
    through their checkpoints until a Sanakoyev's groups arrive," the
    Russian MFA envoy said. Russia is concerned with the Georgia's attempts
    to win some propaganda points by using the problem, Nesterenko stated.
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