The Georgian Foreign Ministry has protested Russia\'s steps to rotate its peacekeeping contingent in the conflict zone in the Tskhinvali district. \"In defiance of a warning, Russia has once again violated agreements and visa rules by carrying out a rotation through the Roki Tunnel, bypassing the Kazbegi-Verkhny Lars sole border crossing point,\" the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. The rotation \"has violated both Georgian-Russian agreements and decisions taken by the Joint Control Commission for the settlement of the conflict,\" it reads. Furthermore, the measure has not been approved by the commission\'s co-chairman and Georgian Conflict Settlement Minister Giorgi Khaindrava, the statement reads. \"Russia has again refused to discuss visas for its peacekeepers deployed on the territory of Georgia with the Georgian authorities,\" it reads. (Interfax)