A police officer stands guard on a bridge as people walk along an embankment in Moscow, Russia. AP PHOTO/DENIS TYRIN
West alarmed by integration with South Ossestia
BY VLADIMIR SOLDATKIN AND TIMOTHY HERITAGE
Reuters
MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty with Georgia’s rebel South Ossetia region Wednesday that almost completely integrates it with Russia, alarming Georgia and the West a year after Moscow took over Crimea.
Tbilisi described the “alliance and integration” treaty as a “move aimed at annexation” and the United States and European Union said they would not recognize the agreement, which the EU depicted as a threat to regional security …read more
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