The South Ossetian de facto authorities offered Russia to redeploy its military bases currently operating on the territory of Georgia in the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
?We have already made this proposal and if Russia accepts it, South Ossetia is ready to deploy Russian military bases on its territory,? news agency Regnum quoted de facto Foreign Minister of South Ossetia Murat Jioyev as saying on February 18.
The issue of Russian military bases is currently being discussed in Tbilisi while Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visits Tbilisi.