South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity.
South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity.
Russia is increasing its military presence in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Permanent Representative of Georgia to the UN Irakli Aslanian.
Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, was surprised by the reaction of Tbilisi's refusal Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to hold a dialogue with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili: "What decent person would talk now with the president of Georgia?" - He asked a question Churkin at a meeting of the UN Security Council.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili during a meeting with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met with the head of the investigative committee at the Prosecutor (SKP) Alexander Bastrykin. Medvedev instructed him to collect documentary evidence of the crimes of the Georgian side in South Ossetia.
Tskhinval no longer exists, it is practically razed to the ground, said Sunday the president's envoy to South Ossetia in Russia Dmitry Medoyev. "The city is completely burned, razed to the ground. It Stalingrad. The frames are very similar, "- said Medoev.
Georgia on the situation in South Ossetia is going to throw at home all its military contingent in Iraq, which has 2000 troops.
August 10 in the early morning, the Abkhaz army began advancing into the security zone and in the Gali district of the republic came very close to the border with Georgia.
"The Georgian side does not stop the provocations on the border with Abkhazia, is stepping up its military presence, start shooting and so the armed forces of the republic have to enter the security zone and advance to the Georgian border" - quoted by "Interfax" statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic. Foreign Minister Sergey Shamba called such actions of the unrecognized republic completely legitimate action.
August 8, Georgian troops invaded the breakaway republic and fired its capital Tskhinvali. The South Ossetian authorities have reported two thousand civilians killed and tens of thousands became refugees.
Despite the fact that Russia and Georgia have agreed on the creation of two corridors for the withdrawal from the conflict zone civilians in South Ossetia, the breakaway republic itself is nothing about it heard.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the civilian population is already 10 August will be able to leave the combat zone and to move to North Ossetia, which took more than 30 thousand refugees.