Human Rights Watch, Georgia: Satellite Images Show Destruction, Ethnic Attacks
Russia Should Investigate, Prosecute Crimes
(New York, August 29, 2008) – Recent satellite images released by the UN program UNOSAT confirm the widespread torching of ethnic Georgian villages inside South Ossetia, Human Rights Watch said today. →
Digest: Breakaway region asks Russia to recognize independence
(CNN) – One of Georgia’s breakaway regions has asked Russia to recognize independence, according to a report by the Russian news agency Interfax. →
Дайджест: Росія не отримає користі від своєї агресії
The invasion of Georgia was entirely unjustified - and we will strengthen support for its wish to join Nato
David Miliband
Analitycs: TOL: When Frozen Conflicts Melt Down
Russian passports become the weapon of choice in disputed regions of the former Soviet Union?
The label “frozen conflict” as applied to the wars that accompanied the breakup of the Soviet Union implies that, some day, they may well “unfreeze.” This is what happened in Georgia. →
Digest: CNN: Bush warns Russia over Georgia ‘bullying’
TBILISI, Georgia (CNN) — U.S. President Bush on Friday chided Russia for Cold War-style behavior in its territorial conflict with Georgia, accusing it of “bullying and intimidation” as international pressure grew on Moscow to withdraw its troops from the region.
Photos: Russian & Ossetian “peacekeeping” mission
Digest: Eurasia Daily Monitor: The Russian-Georgian War Was Preplanned In Moscow
The article was first published in Eurasia Daily Monitor on Thursday, August 14, 2008
Russian troops repair and improve a railroad in Abkhazia in June 2008 (AP).
Last week military tension in Georgia’s separatist region of South Ossetia escalated into all-out war. The Ossetian separatists were provoking a conflict to give the Russian military a pretext for direct intervention. Late in the evening of August 7, a heavy mortar bombardment of Georgian villages near the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali provoked Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to order a major assault. The night attack by Georgian troops outfitted with Western-made night-vision equipment flushed the Ossetian fighters out and Tskhinvali was overrun in the morning. To stop the Georgian offensive thousands of Russian troops with hundreds of pieces of armor invaded through the Roki tunnel and rushed forward. Russian jets began bombing Georgian military installations and cities (see EDM, August 7). →
(Russian - Русский) Новини: В Грузии посчитали погибших, раненых и ограбленных журналистов
This post will probably be in English soon. Now you can read it in Russian - Русский.
News: The New York Times: Signs of Ethnic Attacks in Georgia Conflict
TBILISI, Georgia — As the conflict between Russia and Georgia enters its second week, there is growing evidence of looting and “ethnic cleansing” in a number of villages throughout the area of conflict. →
News: Reuters: U.S. flies aid into Georgia, Russia to pull out of Gori
By Matt Robinson and Margarita Antidze
TBILISI (Reuters) - U.S. military planes began delivering aid to Georgia as Washington stepped up support for a shaky ceasefire with Russian troops around the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Russia said on Thursday it will soon pull out from Gori, a town 60 km (35 miles) east of the capital Tbilisi, just outside South Ossetia and which controls the key road between eastern and western Georgia. →