News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 month ago
Georgia conflict in August last year is due to be published today, delivering what is expected to be the most definitive verdict on who was to blame. Heidi Tagliavini, a Swiss diplomat with copious experience of the Caucasus, and a team of 20...
News Source: BBC
| about 1 month ago
At the time both countries blamed each other for the outbreak of fighting. The report is expected to say that while the Georgians fired the first shots, the Russians created and exploited conditions that led to war. The death toll from the conflict...
News Source: Times Online
| about 1 month ago
Denying that a dozen Russian peacekeeping troops were killed in South Ossetia during an assault by Georgian forces, the Government in Tbilisi released evidence submitted to the EU commission investigating the war’s causes in order to get its side...
News Source: Kiev Post
| about 1 month ago
The Government in Tbilisi denied that a dozen Russian peacekeeping troops were killed in South Ossetia during an assault by Georgian forces and released evidence submitted to the EU commission investigating the war�s causes to get its side of the...
News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 month ago
Georgia claimed Tuesday that a report commissioned by the European Union has concluded that Russian troops were responsible for ethnic cleansing during last year's war with Georgia. A Georgian official briefed by an EU investigator on the report's...
News Source: Miami Herald
| about 1 month ago
Russia on Tuesday formally recognized the independence of the two Georgian regions that its military now occupies, further inflaming relations with the U.S...The announcement by President Dmitry Medvedev, in disregard of repeated U.S. warnings,...