- 18:30 11/08/2010
The Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) presents an updated map of the events of the August 2008 Russian-Georgian war. The map was originally published in The Tanks of August English version.
- 04:18 19/06/2010
A Georgian human rights organization sued Russia and Georgia in the European Court for Human Rights over the five-day war the two states fought in August 2008.
- 20:27 26/08/2008
Russia will defend Abkhazia and South Ossetia with all necessary support if they come under attack, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday.
- 12:13 23/08/2008
NATO has sent a Polish frigate and a U.S. destroyer through the Bosporus to boost its presence in the Black Sea, where it is delivering humanitarian cargoes to Georgia, a source in the Turkish navy said.
- 12:04 23/08/2008
South Ossetia's president and parliamentary leadership will fly to Moscow on Saturday to deliver the republic's sovereignty appeal to the Russian authorities in person.
- 15:07 22/08/2008
Georgia's recent military operations in South Ossetia caused some 100 billion rubles ($4.1 billion) in damage, according to the breakaway republic's preliminary estimates.
- 14:55 21/08/2008
Georgia has lost the right to conduct peacekeeping operations in its breakaway republic of South Ossetia, a senior Russian military official said on Thursday.
- 13:17 21/08/2008
Almost 18,000 refugees have returned to South Ossetia from Russia over the last nine days, Russia's emergencies ministry said on Thursday.
- 12:48 21/08/2008
Russia is continuing to pull back its troops from the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone, a Russian Defense Ministry source said on Thursday.
- 14:21 20/08/2008
Authorities in Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia said on Wednesday that 1,492 of the province's residents were killed in Georgia's August 8 military offensive, according to revised data.
- 12:50 20/08/2008
A senior Russian military officer has been detained in southern Russia on suspicion of spying for Georgia, a spokesman for Russia's security service said on Wednesday.
- 11:55 19/08/2008
Russia has delivered 3,700 metric tons of humanitarian aid to the war-hit Georgian breakaway republic of South Ossetia, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said on Tuesday.
- 10:12 19/08/2008
Russia has temporarily closed its borders with Azerbaijan and Georgia to all foreigners with the exception of CIS nationals, the Rossiiskaya Gazeta government daily said on Tuesday.
- 14:47 18/08/2008
Russian armored vehicles have started to pull out of the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali toward the Russian Republic of North Ossetia.
- 17:13 17/08/2008
The armed conflict between Georgia and Russia over breakaway South Ossetia wiped $7 billion off the Russian stock market, Russia's Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Sunday.
- 14:43 15/08/2008
The majority of Russians (80%) believe the breakaway republic of South Ossetia will never be a part of Georgia again, while 39% say they are ready to see it become a part of Russia, a pollster said on Friday.
- 14:41 15/08/2008
A total of 528 refugees from South Ossetia have received medical assistance in North Ossetia since Georgia's attack on the rebel republic's capital on August 8, the Russian health ministry said on Friday.
- 13:39 15/08/2008
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has blamed Georgia for provoking hostilities in its breakaway region of South Ossetia and criticized Western states for backing Tbilisi.
- 11:13 14/08/2008
Top Russian investigators have opened a criminal case on charges of genocide in connection with recent events in South Ossetia, a General Prosecutor's Office spokesman said on Thursday.
- 10:58 14/08/2008
The U.S. secretary of state has said Russia faces international isolation if it does not honor a ceasefire with Georgia.
- 10:18 14/08/2008
Youth organizations gathered overnight near the Christ the Savior Cathedral in central Moscow to honor the dead in South Ossetia as a fragile ceasefire took hold in Georgia.
- 22:42 13/08/2008
- 22:30 13/08/2008
Russia's foreign minister criticized on Wednesday comments made by the U.S. president on fighting in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia as being based on unverified reports.
- 15:04 13/08/2008
Russia's foreign minister said Wednesday that Russia had ended its operation in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia after fulfilling tasks set by its president, not at the request of the United States.
- 13:36 13/08/2008
Georgia has filed a lawsuit against Russia at the International Court of Justice over alleged ethnic cleansing, the Georgian National Security Council secretary said.
- 14:25 12/08/2008
Russia's foreign minister said on Tuesday that the country rules out negotiations with Georgia's president, and insisted that Georgia must no longer have a peacekeeping presence in breakaway South Ossetia.
- 13:05 12/08/2008
- 12:21 12/08/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia.
- 11:37 12/08/2008
- 11:05 12/08/2008
Russia has sent another humanitarian aid convoy to South Ossetia, devastated after major ground and air attacks launched by Georgia to seize control of the rebel republic, Russia's Emergencies Ministry said Tuesday.
- 10:18 12/08/2008
U.S. President George W. Bush expressed his concern over Russian military operations in Georgia which he said is threatening to escalate the conflict in the north Caucasus republic.
- 21:58 11/08/2008
- 15:42 11/08/2008
The mains water supply has been restored in South Ossetia's capital of Tskhinvali, the administration of the violence-torn breakaway Georgian region said on Monday.
- 14:24 11/08/2008
Russian humanitarian aid convoy on Monday entered South Ossetia's capital of Tskhinvali, devastated after major ground and air attacks launched by Georgia to seize control of the rebel republic.
- 12:52 11/08/2008
Sea links between Georgia's Black Sea port of Batumi and Russia's Sochi have been cut, the deputy head of the Russian Black Sea port said on Monday.
- 10:53 11/08/2008
A Russian humanitarian aid convoy entered South Ossetia's devastated capital of Tskhinvali early on Monday.
- 17:50 10/08/2008
RIA Novosti news agency's website was disabled for several hours on Sunday by a series of hacker attacks, as the conflict between Russia and Georgia over breakaway South Ossetia continued for a third day.
- 17:13 10/08/2008
A top Russian diplomat accused foreign media on Sunday of pro-Georgian bias in their coverage of the ongoing conflict between Georgia and Russia over breakaway South Ossetia.
- 16:54 10/08/2008
Russia plans to send a humanitarian aid convoy from Russia's North Ossetian city of Vladikavkaz to Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, the Emergency Situation Minister said on Sunday.
- 16:34 10/08/2008
Foreign ministers from the EU's 27 member states will gather for an emergency meeting early next week to discuss measures to help settle the conflict in South Ossetia, EU diplomatic sources said on Sunday.
- 15:34 10/08/2008
Negotiations with Georgia will only be possible once the South Caucasus state signs a ceasefire agreement, a Russian deputy foreign minister said on Sunday.
- 15:21 10/08/2008
A top Russian Armed Forces official denied on Sunday Georgian claims that Russian warplanes have been bombing towns in Georgia.
- 14:04 10/08/2008
Russian peacekeepers in Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia said on Sunday that Georgian forces remain in the region, and are shelling apartment blocks in the capital.
- 12:37 10/08/2008
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced on Sunday the government will provide $10 billion rubles ($420 million) in aid for South Ossetia after Georgia's military offensive largely destroyed the capital of the breakaway region.
- 12:19 10/08/2008
A group of ships from Russia's Black Sea Fleet including the flagship Moskva guided missile cruiser arrived on Sunday in the eastern part of the sea near the Georgian border, a high-ranking navy official said.
- 11:21 10/08/2008
Russian peacekeepers in Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia have denied Sunday's media reports claiming Georgia has withdrawn its forces from the province.
- 19:36 09/08/2008
- 18:17 09/08/2008
The Russian president told his U.S. counterpart on Saturday that Russia's ongoing military operation in Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia is aimed at forcing Georgia to accept peace.
- 17:00 09/08/2008
United States President George W. Bush said on Saturday he was deeply concerned by the escalating conflict between Russia and Georgia over the separatist republic of South Ossetia.
- 15:28 09/08/2008
Georgia's parliament accepted President Mikheil Saakashvili's declaration of martial law on Saturday, as the country battled with Russia for control over breakaway South Ossetia.
- 13:53 09/08/2008
Russia's peacekeeping command said on Saturday the country's troops have driven Georgian forces from the capital of the separatist republic of South Ossetia.
- 12:37 09/08/2008
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that 1,500 people have been killed in South Ossetia since the start of Georgia's attack on the breakaway republic.
- 10:42 09/08/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday that the country's troops have begun a military operation in Georgia's separatist region of South Ossetia to force Georgian troops to cease violence.
- 18:34 08/08/2008
Russian troops are approaching the capital of breakaway South Ossetia to help peacekeepers amid a spiraling conflict with Georgia, which tried to regain control of the region Friday, a top military spokesman said.
- 10:08 08/08/2008
The Georgian military attacked the capital of breakaway South Ossetia on Friday with tanks and infantry and bombed a village, despite a ceasefire declared by Georgia, the separatist government said.
- 22:07 07/08/2008
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said on Thursday he was prepared to enter into "any kind of talks," in order to find a solution to the current Georgian-South Ossetian conflict.
- 12:21 07/08/2008
Russian peacekeepers in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone said on Thursday they had identified at least eight illegal flights over Georgia's breakaway region overnight.
- 13:22 03/08/2008
Georgia rejected on Sunday the reports that it was moving its troops close to the border with its breakaway region of South Ossetia.
- 17:46 02/08/2008
Georgia will not give ground in the crisis around recent incidents on the border with its breakaway region of South Ossetia, a senior military official said on Saturday.
- 14:17 02/08/2008
Russia's Foreign Ministry called on Saturday upon Georgia and its breakaway region of South Ossetia to show restraint and search for ways to settle the conflict without violence.
- 13:30 02/08/2008
South Ossetia has not yet mobilized its population following border incidents allegedly provoked by Georgia but put its armed forces on high alert, the interior minister said on Saturday.
- 15:32 31/07/2008
South Ossetia, one of Georgia's breakaway provinces, warned on Thursday that it could block irrigation canals leading to central Georgia if Tbilisi refuses to re-start water supplies to the region's capital.
- 17:20 23/07/2008
Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia said on Wednesday, citing Russian peacekeepers, that it had detected an illegal flight over the de facto independent region.
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