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    ARMENIANS IN GEORGIA ARE ISSUED RUSSIAN PASSPORTS

    Trend, Azerbaijan
    April 3 2014

    Tbilisi, Georgia, April 3

    By Nana Kirtzkhalia - Trend:

    Residents of Georgia's Armenian-populated Samtskhe-Javakheti region
    (South Georgia) are standing in a queue in front of Russia's Consulate
    in Tbilisi to get Russian passports.

    Russia's Consulate in Tbilisi operates under the auspices of the
    Switzerland embassy due to the lack of diplomatic relations with
    Georgia.

    The residents of the Armenian-populated region who are standing in
    a queue avoid contact with media outlets, according to the Trend
    correspondent. The region's residents learned from their relatives
    about the facilitated issuance of Russian passports and visas and
    arrived in Tbilisi, according to the informed sources.

    Prior to the military conflict of 2008, Russia also started the
    facilitated procedure of issuing passports, according to Georgian
    experts.

    Large scale military action was launched in South Ossetia on August
    8, 2008. Later, Russian troops occupied Tskhinvali and expelled the
    Georgian military.

    Russia recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in
    late August. In response, Tbilisi ended diplomatic relations with
    Moscow and has called the two unrecognized republics of Abkhazia and
    South Ossetia occupied territories.


    From: Baghdasarian
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