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In August 2008, Georgia attempted to recapture the Russia-backed breakaway republic of South Ossetia, which experienced fought a separatist war with Tbilisi during the nineties. Moscow responded with a large invasion and regained control of South Ossetia, though also seizing Yet another breakaway Georgian province, Abkhazia, and it continues to hel