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Ossetian War

24.08.2009 18:12

Ukrainian army supported Georgian attack on South Ossetia

While investigating the genocide and mass killings of Russian citizens in South Ossetia in August 2008, it has appeared that the Ukraine was participating in the massacre, Russia’s Investigative Committee says.

 
Georgia's President Mikheil Saashvili and a U.S. military instructor 16.08.2009 09:21 12 comments

Georgians question alliance with the US

While the US is sending marines to Georgia to train a Georgian battalion, set to be deployed on a mission in Afghanistan next spring, ordinary people in Georgia are not so sure the country has chosen the right friend.

AFP Photo/ Nina Shlamova 15.08.2009 06:23 6 comments

USA: Georgia to fight Taliban

The US is training the Georgian army to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan. The State Department says the first group of American troops will arrive in Tbilisi within several days.

 
Vladimir Putin (AFP Photo / RIA Novosti / Pool / Aleksey Druzhinin ) 12.08.2009 11:02 2 comments

Putin pledges $500 million for security purposes in Abkhazia

With the current Georgian leadership, nobody can rule out the repetition of a military conflict in the Caucasus, said Prime Minister Putin in an interview to the Abkhazian media.

11.08.2009 13:16 12 comments

US media leaves Ossetian war anniversary untouched

On the first anniversary of the war in South Ossetia, many in the region are taking time to reflect. In the US, however, there’s almost no mention of the conflict, so heavily covered just a year ago.

 
10.08.2009 20:57 3 comments

“Saakashvili will never acknowledge blame for the war”

There is still a long way to go before Georgia recognizes its responsibility for the August conflict, says Mikhail Stolyarov of the Russian State Academy of Public Service, a leading research center.

Unknown reporter at the battle zone of Georgia-S.Ossetia conflict 10.08.2009 17:32 5 comments

Tears of Ossetian children mean nothing to Western media

A year ago a story on Georgia’s war against South Ossetia filmed by a Russian cameraman was silenced on Polish TV because it was out of tune with the politicized official media line in the country.

 
Vladimir Kremlev for RT 10.08.2009 15:22 1 comment

ROAR: Media rundown on Ossetian war anniversary

The Russian media are full of editorials, articles and commentaries about the commemoration of the first anniversary of the Ossetian war, and here we provide a brief summary of those opinions.

Tskhinvali (AFP Photo / Viktor Drachev) 10.08.2009 14:29

S.Ossetia and Abkhazia: keeping the status quo

First and foremost South Ossetia needs to have a viable economy, says Irina Kobrinskaya a political analyst from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations.

 
10.08.2009 12:41

Clans are South Ossetia's stumbling block

Russian troops deployed in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and particularly Russia’s recognition of the breakaway republics, has brought stability to the region, assures independent military analyst Dmitry Evstafyev.

Tskhinvali (AFP Photo / Konstantin Kirillov) 10.08.2009 09:27 1 comment

Ossetian elderly live in ruins and pain over loss of children

Many homes in South Ossetia still bear the scars of last year's war. For the elderly the past 12 months have been a challenge, coping with family losses while living in the rubble of Tskhinval.

 
An American instructor trains Georgian soldiers at Vasiani base outside Tbilisi three weeks prior to Georgia’s invasion of S. Ossetia   AFP/East news 10.08.2009 08:54 6 comments

S. Ossetian war taught the US a lesson

The war in South Ossetia resulted in a reconsideration of US policy towards the post-soviet space.

09.08.2009 22:57 4 comments

Cyber-attacked or cyber-PRed?

Some of the biggest websites were affected Thursday by a cyber attack aimed at a single person who used them to criticize Russia’s policy toward Georgia. Russia was blamed immediately. But is the story that simple?

 
09.08.2009 22:17 1 comment

“August war: It didn’t matter what the reporter said”

It was counterintuitive for the world media to say that it was Georgia who fired the first shots. Fred Weir, a journalist from the Christian Science Monitor presents an international assessment of last August's events.

Patient being treated in the basement hospital.
Image from flickr.com/photos/29577903@N02/ 09.08.2009 18:28

Ossetia remembers lives saved in underground hospital

As war raged on the streets of the South Ossetian capital, the city's hospital was forced underground. Doctors had to treat hundreds of patients in the building's basement to escape the bombings.

 
09.08.2009 16:43 1 comment

We were Saakashvili’s next target – Abkhazia

Church services to commemorate the victims of the war in South Ossetia are held in Abkhazia. Many in the Republic think that if Georgia had achieved its plan to crush South Ossetia, they would have been the next target.

09.08.2009 15:17

Russian bikers roar into South Ossetia to commemorate war anniversary

A group of Russian bikers have arrived in Tskhinval after retracing the treads of the Russian military into this embattled region one year ago.

 
TSKHINVALI: South Ossetians repair a destroyed house in Tskhinvali / AFP Photo / Viktor Drachev 09.08.2009 14:03

"When we win we lose, and when we lose we win”

True Ossetian heroes stay behind the curtain, says Alesya Zhioeva, an Ossetian now living in Moscow.

09.08.2009 11:32

Tears amongst the ashes: Ossetia’s mourning continues

According to the Russian Prosecutor’s office, the Georgian attack last August killed 162 Ossetians and wounded 250. For people who lost relatives in the attack, the grieving continues.

 
Sukhumi 1992 09.08.2009 09:29

“Georgia’s aggression was inevitable” – Abkhazian President

Had Georgia achieved its plans to subdue South Ossetia, Abkhazia could have been the next target, Abkhazian President Sergey Bagapsh told RT in an exclusive interview.