South Ossetia Holds Training for Military Commanders

Breakaway South Ossetia launched two-week long command post exercises on December 20, the Russian news agency Interfax reported.

?During the exercises we will thoroughly analyse those armed clashes which took place [between the Georgian troops and South Ossetian militias] this August,? Ibragim Gasiyev, the Deputy Defense Minister of breakaway South Ossetia told Interfax.