Georgian Reports: Bus Driver Detained in Perevi

Local Georgian officials said a Georgian bus driver was arrested by the Russian servicemen in Perevi, a village located outside the breakaway South Ossetian administrative border, but remaining under the Russian control following the August war.

Nodar Abzhandadze, a local official from the Sachkhere municipality (administratively Perevi is part of the Sachkhere district on the western part of the breakaway region’s administrative border) told Rustavi 2 TV that the bus driver was detained for entering into the village without going through clearance on the Russian post installed at the entrance of Perevi. “But at the time when the bus entered into the village no one was manning the post and the detention seems to be a provocation,” the official said.

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