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Russia’s ex-finance minister Alexei Kudrin criticized on Thursday Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s remarks regarding the white ribbons worn by protesters at recent nationwide rallies against alleged electoral fraud.
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Russia wants to recognize independence of Ossetia · 2008-08-25 18:37
Russia's upper house of parliament voted unanimously on Monday for a resolution calling on President Dmitry Medvedev to recognize the independence of Georgia's two breakaway regions.
Senators said that after Georgia's act of military aggression against South Ossetia Georgia has lost the moral right to seek control of the breakaway provinces.
Hundreds of civilians were killed in South Ossetia, the regional capital Tskhinvali was devastated, and thousands of locals were forced to flee when Georgia launched an attack on August 8 to seize control of the region, which gained de facto independence after a bloody post-Soviet conflict in the early 1990s.
Russia retaliated with an operation to "force Georgia to peace" which was concluded on August 12. Georgia's ally the United States, along with other Western powers, accused Moscow of disproportionate use of force, and NATO froze ties with Russia last week.
Speaking in the Federation Council before the vote on Monday, South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity said: "I am asking Russia to recognize South Ossetia as an independent and sovereign state."
Kokoity flew out to Moscow on Saturday to deliver his republic's appeal for recognition, approved by the separatist parliament on Friday.
"What the Georgian leadership has done in South Ossetia can only be described as a Caucasus Stalingrad," Kokoity said.
Abkhazia's president said the two self-proclaimed republics can never be under Georgian control, RIA Novosti reports.
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