26/08/2008
MOSCOW, Russia -- Moscow says Albania and several other Balkan nations supplied Georgia with weapons used in the conflict with Russia. During a press conference in Moscow on Monday (August 25th), Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of Russia's joint staff, said that in addition to Albania, "Macedonia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Serbia, Hungary and Romania" supplied Georgia. At the weekend, Moscow accused Washington of helping Tbilisi in the troubled region of South Ossetia. (BalkanWeb, Top Channel, Telegrafi - 25/08/08)