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MOSCOW - Russia will increase its peacekeeping troops in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, a senior officer said on Saturday.
"Our peacekeeping troops in South Ossetia are currently acting under the 1992 bilateral agreements, according to which 500 of Russian peacekeepers will be deployed there," said Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of staff of the Russian armed forces.