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August 15, 2008 13:09

• Lokshina: federals stopped marauding in four Georgian villages

  Tatiana Lokshina, representative of the Human Rights Watch, said that the federal agencies had stopped the marauders, who acted in four Georgian villages located along the Dzhava-Tskhinvali highway.

August 15, 2008 13:05

• In Dagestan, editor-in-chief of "Nastoyascheye Vremya" bans publications about searches in "Chernovik"

  Hanzhan Kurbanov, editor-in-chief of the Dagestan-based "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time) newspaper, has forbidden publishing any materials about the searches conducted in the "Chernovik" (Blueprint) newspaper and about summon to interrogation of Nadira Isaeva, editor-in-chief of this newspaper, against whom a criminal case was initiated.

August 15, 2008 13:02

• Two journalists lost in Georgian military conflict

  Today, Gennady Dzyuba, President of the Association of Military Press of the Moscow Union of Journalists, has presented generalized data, according to which two journalists were lost also seven more wounded in the warfare in South Ossetia.

August 15, 2008 12:56

• Refugees arriving to Tbilisi express protest to Georgia's authorities

  The residents of the Georgian villages, located in the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict zone, who have arrived to Tbilisi, blame the authorities of Georgia of not protecting them. People are also disappointed with the absence of real help from the USA.

August 14, 2008 13:16

• Russian Joint Staff reports that Georgia planned mass invasion into Abkhazia

  On August 13, General-Colonel Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Deputy Commander of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, reported that Georgia had intended to invade Abkhazia.

August 14, 2008 13:11

• Russian human rights activists and opposition manifest for peace in Georgia

  A number of Russian human rights and oppositional organizations have moved the Antiwar Manifesto, announcing a termless antiwar campaign of civil protest until durable peace is established in Georgia.

August 14, 2008 13:08

• Over 17,000 refugees from South Ossetia registered in the SFD

  In the south of Russia, over 17,000 refugees from South Ossetia have been officially registered, as reports the Federal Operative Staff for liquidating the consequences of the armed conflict in South Ossetia.

August 14, 2008 13:01

• Kokoity and Bagapsh sign in Moscow the document on settling their conflicts with Georgia

  Today in the Kremlin, in the presence of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, Presidents of South Ossetia and Abkhazia Eduard Kokoity and Sergey Bagapsh have signed six principles of settling the conflicts in Georgia.

August 14, 2008 12:57

• Russia has transferred control over Gori to Georgia

  Today, local policemen have returned to Gori and will now maintain the law and order in the city. It has become possible as a result of the arrangements reached during the meeting last night in Gori of Kakha Lomaya, Secretary of the Security Council of Georgia, with the command of the Russian troops present in the region.

August 14, 2008 12:54

• Human rights activists: death-roll of Tskhinvali was many times over-scaled by Russian authorities

  During the armed conflict, the Tskhinvali city hospital accepted 44 casualties and 273 wounded residents of South Ossetia, the hospital doctors have reported to the employees of the Human Rights Watch (HRW).

August 14, 2008 12:41

• Abkhazia asserts that Russian families are ousted from territory of Georgia

  Ruslan Kishmariya, Plenipotentiary Envoy of President of Abkhazia in the Gali District, has stated that on August 12, when Abkhazia announced forcing Georgian policemen out of the Kodori Gorge, Russian families ousted from the Zugdidi District of Georgia started to arrive to Abkhazia.

August 14, 2008 12:38

• In Dagestan, "Chernovik" editor refuses to evidence

  Nadira Isaeva, editor-in-chief of the Dagestan weekly "Chernovik" (Blueprint), who came on August 13 for interrogation to the Investigatory Department of the ICPO for Dagestan, has refused to evidence.

August 14, 2008 12:25

• Russia brings case on genocide in South Ossetia

  The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia has initiated a criminal case on the fact of mass assassinations of Russian citizens in South Ossetia, under which Georgia is accused of genocide, as Igor Komissarov, assistant of the chairman of the ICPO, has reported.

August 13, 2008 13:38

• After the war, Georgia will face problem in economy, and Russia is under threat of isolation

  After the failed "blitzkrieg" against South Ossetia, Georgia will face new economic problems, President Mikhail Saakashvili - attacks of the opposition and criminal prosecution, and Russia - possible isolation by international organizations, Russian media write today.

August 13, 2008 13:34

• Meeting of NATO MFA heads on Georgia to take place on August 19

  The emergency meeting of the heads of Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the 26 NATO member-states on Georgia, convoked on the US initiative, will take place on Tuesday, August 19, in Brussels. It became known from sources in the Belgian capital.

August 13, 2008 13:29

• Georgia brings action against Russia

  Georgia has lodged claims against Russia to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Court of the United Nations. Among other things, Georgia accuses Russia of ethnic cleanings.

August 13, 2008 13:24

• Georgia rejects information on march of militaries towards Tbilisi

  The information about the march of Russian armoured machines on Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, widespread by foreign media, has nothing to do with reality, said Ekaterina (Eka) Zguladze, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia.

August 13, 2008 13:19

• 74 Russian militaries perished in Georgia-South Ossetia conflict zone

  Russian losses in the conflict zone of South Ossetia with Georgia make 74 persons killed, 171 persons wounded and 19 persons registered as missing. Sandro Kvitashvili, Minister of Public Health of Georgia, has declared today that as a result of warfare after August 8 the Georgian casualties made 175 persons.

August 13, 2008 13:11

• Georgia accepts five out of six points of Medvedev's resolution

  President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili is ready to accept five out of six ceasefire conditions in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone and to sign the document coordinated on August 12 by Russian and French leaders.

August 13, 2008 13:04

• "Heritage" Party accuses Armenian authorities of beating lady-journalist from "Aikakan Zhamanak" newspaper

  In Armenia, the opposition party named "Heritage" asserts that the authorities of the country became accomplices of beating a journalist of the "Aikakan Zhamanak" newspaper.