After a year of negotiations on the small print, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his formal approval this week for the signing of an intergovernmental agreement on the modalities for the incorporation of “some military units” of Georgia’s breakaway Republic of South Ossetia into the Russian armed forces.
RFE/RL: Putin gives green light for incorporating some South Ossetian units into Russian army
(FILES) An army truck carrying Russian soldiers passes near a destroyed building in Tskhinvali on Sept. 18, 2008.
