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2008 Russo-Georgian diplomatic crisis

10 Jul 2008 · 55.75° N, 37.62° E

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When
10 Jul 2008
Kind
Event
Coordinates
55.75° N, 37.62° E
Description
Georgia recalls its ambassador from Moscow after Russian fighters entered Georgian airspace.

Placed at the area around the town it links, Moscow.

2008 Russo-Georgian diplomatic crisis

2008 diplomatic crisis between Georgia and Russia

Though tensions had existed between Georgia and Russia for years and more intensively since the Rose Revolution, an international diplomatic crisis escalated in the spring of 2008, namely after Russia announced in response to the Western recognition of the independence of Kosovo that it would no longer participate in the Commonwealth of Independent States economic sanctions imposed on Abkhazia in 1996 and established…

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