Russia on Wednesday
signed a wide-ranging alliance with Georgia’s
breakaway region of South Ossetia that will
further cement its control over the territory despite fierce condemnation from
the West.
President Vladimir Putin inked a deal in Moscow with South Ossetian leader
Leonid Tibilov that officially makes Russia responsible for defending the
self-declared republic, where the Kremlin has stationed thousands of troops
since a war with Georgia there in 2008.
The signing of the controversial pact came as Russia
marked one year to the day since Putin signed off on the annexation of Ukraine’s Black Sea republic
of Crimea in a seismic shift slammed
by Kiev and the
West as an illegal …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
