President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty with Georgia's rebel South Ossetia region on March 18 that almost completely integrates it with Russia, alarming Georgia and the West a year after Moscow took over Crimea.
Reuters: Russian treaty with rebel Georgian region alarms West
Russian President Vladimir Putin smiles during a meeting with the leader of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, Leonid Tibilov, at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 18.
