Why conflict in South Ossetia?
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So when Georgia sent troops into the breakaway republic — which is peppered with ethnically Georgian towns as well as Ossetian ones — Russia responded with heavy force, using the disputed peacekeeping mission and Russian citizenship of regional residents as justification. The onetime Soviet republic of Georgia was also encountering conflict with Russia far from Ossetia in the Black Sea, and Russia had sent thousands of troops into Abkhazia, another Russian-supported breakaway region that has no international recognition.
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