Georgia launched major ground and air attacks to seize control of South Ossetia on Friday, prompting Russia to send in tanks and hundreds of troops. Around 2,000 civilians have since died in Tskhinvali, according to Russia. A total of 34,000 people are also reported to have fled across the Russian border.
"Tomorrow, when Georgia's foreign minister arrives in Brussels and, possibly, the NATO Council is convened, Russia will demand an extraordinary meeting of the Russia-NATO Council to present our arguments and the truth about the methods of the Saakashvili regime and measures being taken by our peacekeepers," Dmitry Rogozin said.
A top Russian diplomat accused foreign media on Sunday of pro-Georgian bias in their coverage of the conflict between Georgia and Russia over breakaway South Ossetia.
"We want television screens in the West to be showing not only Russian tanks and saying Russia is at war in South Ossetia and with Georgia, but also to be showing the suffering of the Ossetian people, the murdered elderly people and children, the destroyed towns of South Ossetia, and [regional capital] Tskhinvali. This would be an objective way of presenting the material," Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told a RIA Novosti news conference.
