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August 10, 2008 20:35

• Casualty count of war in South Ossetia goes up

  So far, neither of the parties of the conflict that has burst out in South Ossetia has failed to present complete data on their casualties in the tragic events, however, the count of warfare victims from the first days of fights in the region is in thousands.

August 09, 2008 23:51

• Georgian tanks and infantry invade Tskhinvali

  The infantry of Georgia has entered the capital of South Ossetia, and several Georgian tanks have broken through the defence line and also entered Tskhinvali. South Ossetian fighters show resistance to the invasion. The city is shelled.

August 09, 2008 21:45

• Russia to allot 10 billion roubles for restoring houses in South Ossetia

  Tonight, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has arrived to Vladikavkaz and met leaders of North Ossetia to discuss the matters of rendering assistance to South Ossetia in the context of the events in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone. Mr Putin has ordered to allot 10 billion roubles for restoration of dwelling houses in South Ossetia.

August 09, 2008 18:41

• Abkhazia starts forcing Georgian troops out of Kodori Gorge

  President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh has made a decision to start driving Georgian armed forces out of the upper section of the Kodori Gorge. Christian Bzhaniya, President's official spokesman for media, has announced this at a briefing.

August 09, 2008 17:35

• Residents of North Ossetia collect things for South Ossetian refugees

  Today, the Ministry for Matters of Youth, Physical Culture and Sports of North Ossetia has started to collect things for refugees from South Ossetia. People are mostly bringing children's clothes.

August 09, 2008 16:29

• Georgian capital accepts refugees from South Ossetia

  Today, refugees from South Ossetia have started to arrive to Tbilisi. The capital's Mayoralty asserts that they can accommodate all of them.

August 09, 2008 13:18

• Tskhinvali residents have no potable water, electricity and gas

  Because of huge destructions, Tskhinvali now experiences sharp shortage of potable water and absence of gas and electricity. Periodic bombardments of Tskhinvali prevent to organize evacuation of wounded persons, women and children, and to count total victims of combat clashes in the city.

August 09, 2008 12:02

• Shamba: international mediators lull vigilance of Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  Making his comments on the outcomes of the extraordinary UN Security Council sitting held in New York on the situation in South Ossetia, Sergey Shamba, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, has stated that international intermediaries, who had been assuring that Georgia would not apply force, lulled the vigilance both of Ossetians and Abkhazians.

August 09, 2008 10:52

• Hackers attack Georgian and Ossetian websites

  A great number of websites run by Georgian and Ossetian information agencies have suffered from hackers' attacks within the latest 24 hours. In the evening on August 8, the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia was also cracked.

August 08, 2008 22:52

• Kokoity: over 1400 persons fell victims of Georgia's attack on South Ossetia

  Tonight, President of the non-recognized republic Eduard Kokoity has reported that over 1400 persons were victims of Georgian troops' attack on South Ossetia.

August 08, 2008 22:04

• STOP THE WAR<br><em>Statement from "Memorial"</em>

  The history of conflict in the Caucuses over recent years demonstrates a long chain of mistakes and crimes. We call on you to not forget this history.

August 08, 2008 21:48

• Saakashvili: Georgian troops keep whole South Ossetia under control

  As of 9:00 p.m., the governmental troops of Georgia had complete control over the territory of South Ossetia and all the settlements, except for the high-mountainous Dzhava village, as President Mikhail Saakashvili announced tonight in his TV address to the nation.

August 08, 2008 17:40

• "Memorial" calls on to stop war in South Ossetia

  Being an OSCE member, Georgia shall settle conflicts peacefully, and recovery of its territorial integrity cannot be a pretext for repudiating these obligations, therefore, combat operations in South Ossetia should be immediately stopped, runs a special statement of the International Society "Memorial" issued in the context of recently aggravated situation in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone.

August 08, 2008 17:03

• Over thousand Dagestan volunteers ready to go to South Ossetia

  Today in Dagestan, the city of Khasavyurt has hosted a mass rally in support of South Ossetia. Volunteers are being signed up, and residents are gathering humanitarian assistance for the Ossetian people.

August 08, 2008 16:58

• Abkhazia holds spontaneous rally on warfare in South Ossetia

  A spontaneous rally organized by the Movement named "Abkhazian Mothers for Peace and Social Justice" against the new war triggered in the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict zone took place in Sukhum.

August 08, 2008 16:35

• Events in South Ossetia remind Chechnya residents of their recent past

  The start of broad-scale warfare between Georgia and South Ossetia has reminded Chechen residents of the tragedy in the mid and late 1990s came to Chechnya. In the opinion of many people, no country leaders' intentions and plans are worth a single human life.

August 08, 2008 15:11

• Several villages in South Ossetia wiped out

  Today in the morning, while leaving South Ossetia, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was a witness of an attack of a SU-25 strike fighter, which shelled a Russian tank column in the area of Dzhava village. One armoured troop-carrier was damaged. The aircrafts also tried to blow up the bridge in the area of Gufta village; however they missed the target and struck apartment houses.

August 08, 2008 14:28

• "Chernovik" newspaper office searched in Dagestan

  Today, representatives of law-enforcement agencies blocked the office of the Dagestan weekly "Chernovik" (Blueprint) and started a careful search thereof.

August 07, 2008 23:24

• South Ossetia announces war with Georgia

  The South Ossetia authorities report that Georgia has started war against South Ossetia. The Georgian government claims that it was forced to cancel the previous unilateral moratorium on fire actions and to open response fire due to incessant shelling of Georgian villages by South Ossetia units.

August 07, 2008 18:22

• Sappers in Chechnya cut off gas supply from the village of Bamut

  Soldiers of Federal armed forces have exploded a landmine they found in the village of Bamut, Achkhoy-Martan district, Chechnya. The explosion has resulted in damaging the gas pipeline.