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Georgia

Georgia Releases Russian Officers

(RFE/RL)

10 February 2006 -- Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili said today that three Russian military officers detained by the police on 8 February had been released and given 24 hours to leave the country.

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February 10, 2006

The three men were arrested in Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia for entering the country without passports.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on 9 February that the men were in South Ossetia to investigate the recent seizure of a Russian military truck by the Georgian police after it crashed into a civilian car.

Okruashvili said the Russians had been handed over to observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in South Ossetia.

(Rustavi-2, Civil Georgia, AP)

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