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News Source: BBC
| 5 months ago
President Bush said he had expressed his grave concern to Moscow at the military's "disproportionate" response. Meanwhile, Georgia said Russian planes had bombed targets near its capital, despite Tbilisi declaring a ceasefire. The BBC's Justin Webb...
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News Source: The Star Press
| 5 months ago
Georgia (AP) � Russia expanded its bombing blitz to the Georgian capital, deployed ships off the coast and, a Georgian official said, sent tanks from the separatist region of South Ossetia into Georgian territory, heading toward a border city...
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News Source: Kommersant
| 5 months ago
Abkhazia, �in accordance with alliance obligations to South Ossetia � began an operation �to press Georgian forces out of the upper part of the Kodori Gorge.� Abkhazian armed formations entered the zone of responsibility of...
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News Source: Zaman.com
| 5 months ago
The Georgian Foreign Ministry said Georgian troops have begun observing a cease-fire in South Ossetia in compliance with an order from President Mikhail Saakashvili. The ministry said Sunday it was ready to start immediate negotiations with Russia on...
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News Source: Ynet News
| 5 months ago
Sergei Chaban in charge of Russian peacekeepers in Abkhazia conveyed the demand Monday through UN military observers in the area. The Russian move would mark a major escalation in the Russian-Georgian conflict over another Georgian breakaway province...
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News Source: Contra Costa Times
| 5 months ago
Despite having retaken control of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, and facing widespread calls for peace, Russia showed little sign of easing its drive to punish Georgia and humiliate U.S.-educated President Mikheil Saakashvili, 40, who is...
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News Source: The Independent
| 5 months ago
As the world's diplomats hurried to contain the violence and prevent the conflict engulfing the wider Caucasus region, Russia made clear it no longer considered Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili a partner, prompting accusations from his main...
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News Source: NewKerala
| 5 months ago
Marat Kulakhmetov has accused Georgian forces of continuing shooting at peacekeepers' positions despite Tbilisi's claims its troops had been withdrawn from the suburbs of Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia. ' '...
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News Source: Turkish Press
| 5 months ago
Russia kept up its attacks on Georgia in the early hours of Monday, brushing aside appeals for a ceasefire after its forces swept through the Georgian rebel region of South Ossetia. Russian planes bombed the base of a special forces battalion and an...
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News Source: Moscow Times
| 5 months ago
Moscow said the heavy fighting, which began early Friday, killed about 2,000 people, including 13 Russian peacekeepers...Casualty figures could not be independently verified, but media reports from the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, suggested...