This country highlighted in red is bordered by Russia & Georgia to the north & Iran to the south
... of 
Georgia's traditional borders by maintaining a garrison in South... [DOC] [TLE] Russia, the West, and Conflict Resolution in Georgia - gwu.edu [PAR] (which borders South Ossetia but lies inside Russia), and the same quartet (
North Ossetia ... (North Ossetia), made sense in early years.