The court seeks arrest of three men who served in the government of the Russian-backed breakaway region of South Ossetia
The breakaway region’s new de facto president ditches his predecessor’s plan to hold the vote on July 17.
Its separatist leader says the Moscow-backed breakaway region plans to take steps to become part of Russia.
Authorities in the breakaway region free two Georgians after 18-day detention but keep the body of a third who died.
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