The FINANCIAL — According to Civil Georgia, Russia’s President, Dmitri Medvedev, submitted partnership and friendship treaties with Abkhazia and South Ossetia to the State Duma for ratification.
The Russian news agencies reported that the President submitted the documents to the lower house of the parliament with a note “a priority.”
The treaties were signed between Medvedev and secessionist leaders in Moscow on September 17. The documents with the term of ten years, among other things, envisage military assistance allowing Russia to establish military bases in the breakaway regions, as well as assistance in border protection.
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