MOSCOW, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- The mayor of Vladikavkaz, a city in Russia's North Caucasus region, was assassinated Wednesday near his home, law enforcement officials said.
MOSCOW, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed friendship and mutual assistance treaties with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Kremlin officials said Monday.
TBILISI, Georgia, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Russian peacekeepers and South Ossetian officials denied firing shots near the motorcade of the presidents of Georgia and Poland along the South Ossetia border.
MOSCOW, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Russia reports it has fully staffed two military bases established in Georgia's disputed republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Georgia was not involved in the deadly bombing of a minibus in Russia's North Caucasus republic of North Ossetia this week, investigators said Friday.
VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A blast tore into a public minibus packed with students in a busy city square in Russia's Caucasus region Thursday, killing at least nine, investigators said.
TSKHINVALI, Ukraine, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- The Ukrainian government contends it broke no laws in supplying weapons used by Georgia against Russian forces in South Ossetia last summer.
MOSCOW, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- A Russian lawmaker says the friendship treaty with two former Georgian republics will protect them from any attempts at reunification by force.
MOSCOW, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- The British ambassador to Moscow has urged Russia to reconsider its recognition of the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
TBILISI, Georgia, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- More than 20,000 people displaced by the Georgia-Russia conflict returned to their homes in the South Ossetia buffer zone last week, U.N. officials said.
TBILISI, Georgia, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Russian peacekeeping troops have withdrawn from buffer zones around Georgian rebel provinces South Ossetia and Abkhazia, officials said Thursday.
TBILISI, Georgia, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Russia says it has completed its withdrawal of its peacekeepers from a buffer zone near South Ossetia on Wednesday, an official said.
MOSCOW, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The Russian Foreign Ministry Monday accused political forces in Georgia of trying to provoke a new armed conflict.
GORI, Georgia, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Russian troops have pulled back from a key checkpoint in Georgian territory near the breakaway province of South Ossetia, European Union officials say.
TSKHINVALI , Georgia, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Georgia Saturday denied it was behind a blast that killed seven Russian soldiers in the capital of the breakaway state of South Ossetia.
