With German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Georgia for talks, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has said a Russian troop withdrawal would begin on Monday.
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Tensions flare on Georgian borders ... intense international pressure to withdraw, the Russian commander in the Caucasus, General Vyachislav Borisov, initially said his troops had begun a pull-out from the South Ossetian city of Tskhinvali. The Russian defense ministry later denied the report. Georgia says Abkhazian militias and Russian army units are still occupying more than a dozen Georgian villages. US President George W. Bush, meanwhile, has welcomed Moscow's acceptance of a ceasefire agreement, but said there could be no debate about Georgia's sovereignty over its breakaway regions.
(Deutsche Welle)
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