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August 12, 2008
South Ossetia: The Prequel to the Current War
By Graham Stack
Special to Russia Profile

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The South Ossetian conflict that flared up back in late 1989 started the break up of Georgia, and the present conflict might well seal it. Following the putsch of 1991, Boris Yeltsin’s Russia got increasingly more concerned about the rights of minorities in neighboring states, and the following year Russia was on the brink of intervening to protect South Ossetia. Sixteen years later, the country’s leadership seems to have gotten much more hot-headed.

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