Russia examines rail link to South Ossetia(to annex)

[Mesteryo]

Source: Reuters

Russia is considering blasting a railway line through the Caucasus mountains to link up with South Ossetia, the breakaway region of Georgia over which Moscow and Tbilisi fought a war in August.


"This initiative has been assigned to us," said the president of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin. "We have looked at various possible projects."


Asked by a reporter if the project was motivated by politics or economics, Yakunin said: "Railway men don't just talk about infrastructure, they act to bring nations together. In the countries of the former Soviet Union it has always been this way."


Russian state gas giant Gazprom is building a pipeline to South Ossetia, Russian aid accounts for much of the budgets of the separatist administrations and the Kremlin plans to station a total of 7,600 troops in the two regions.

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[dipsydoodle]

1. They've already got a decent sized tunnel

that how the tanks got through - isn't it ?